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MSNBC host (and successful financial industry businesswoman) Stephanie Ruhle took time out this week to call out those businesses who claim they can't afford to pay their employees more than minimum wage, saying that if a business can't afford to pay its workers a living wage its business model is a failure and either the model needs to change or the business needs to cease operations.
Ruhle is correct--for far too long the republican party has subsidized poorly run companies by refusing to raise the minimum wage to a level that is commensurate with the expenses of the times in which we live. If $7.25 an hour is all your company can afford to pay its workers, your leadership team is incompetent at creating sales and/or profits and should quickly find itself collecting unemployment benefits.
That's the way it works for the rest of us--if we can't do the job, we lose the job. And the same should hold for Fortune 500 companies as well as Bob's Bar and Grill just down the street--if they're too lazy or incompetent to make enough money to pay their employees well, they should do what other lazy and incompetent workers do: do without.
You Have a Choice: Pass a Voting Rights Bill, or Welcome Fascism to America
Peace,
emaycee
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