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Originally Posted by TexKan  It's not about what they own - it's about what they pay thier employees. If someone is working for you and they are eligable for assistance cause they don't make enough to support themselves and you have 5 summer houses.......... then you are a fat cat.
People are working 3 jobs to get by - companies have gone to part time so they don't have to have benefits, the benefits are so high no one can afford them, and company owners are flyin in lear jets to Aspin. It's not illegal it's just wrong. I think it's great to make a profit but I do think the worker should also make a profit. There are some folks that work very hard and make very little. It's my opinion - I know there are degreed folks workin meanial jobs. Bottom line is the rate is goin up and I'm glad. |
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Originally Posted by Highwayman I haven’t seen many “fat cats” running a landscaping business or a florist shop. How many small business owners fly around in Lear jets? Many small business owners aren’t making much above wages themselves but will have to comply with the higher minimum wage. Many of them will end up cutting a job or two in order to make ends meet. Some folks ain’t even worth minimum wage now. |
I am a self employed business owner. I work upwards of 84 hours per week. I am on call 24 hpd/7 days a week. I have busted my butt for 40+ years, have never drawn Welfare, never drawn unemployment, pay my taxes, pay your Social Security and Medicare, give to the church and charities, rarely get to take a vacation, and have paid my employees by their efforts and value to the company. I do not have a fleet of limos, no summer houses, no Lear Jets. Several of my employees make more money than I do. However, it amazes me to see the work ethic of most employees. Employees assume that you are a "fat cat", even though you pay them well and take care of them. They "borrow" from you, and never return things, always have a "sob" story about why they can't pay their rent (even though they have enough money to drink, smoke, go out to eat, drove to KC for the weekend, and just got back from a trip to Vegas). If a person shows a good work ethic and gives me a good days work, then I will return the favor with a good days pay. If not, then I do not need them "screwing up" my business!! I have come to realize that the only person that I can really count upon, is myself! If employees cared half as much about working and taking care of business, as they do about a paycheck or "hiding out", then they would be successful. In other words, as someone has already mentioned, the only reason that anyone would be working for minimum wage is because they don't really care to better themselves, and would rather be "taken care of" by society!!