With Sears, Kmart, Hobby Lobby and countless small business closing, fast food chains moving to automation due to the $15 per hour "minimum wage", who's going to pay for all the "free stuff"?
Bob Bogart
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Welfare recipients. All they will have to do is plop down their EBT cards.
Nancy Pelosi said so.
Vicki Rodgers
Nine Mile, Tn.
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Bob Bogart, how do you create a stimulus to keep the economy going if people don't have the financial resources to purchase commodities and services? Are prices going up or down?
Twenty years ago people did not need to purchase the technology needed today. In major cities rent is for a one bedroom apartment is $1,200 a month. Can you tell me how minimum wage earners can afford the rent, food, transportation, repairs, medical and dental on minimum wage or even $15 an hour?
Automation is taking place because corporations want wage earners to pay for their losses and mismanagement. I see it as exploitation leading to a third world United States. Most wage earners are not in a financial position to support your kind of lifestyle these days.
Bob Koscinski
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I don't know about Sears, Kmart and fast food chains, but if Hobby Lobby is going bankrupt, it probably has less to do with the wages they're required to pay and more to do with the fact that they are a decidedly anti-American company. Many loyal Americans - especially those of us who are committed Christians - simply refuse to shop there.
By contrast, millions of consumers are now flocking to Target - precisely because they do stand for genuine American values and Christian principles.
Lonnie Hatmaker
Chattanooga
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I response to Lonnie Hatmaker praising Target for their values, I would like remind the readers of the boycott going against Target. Their allowing transgenders using any bathroom and dressing rooms was the last straw.
I will not shop at Target any more. They were a decent place to shop at one time.
Richard Elrod