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A little screed that will take a while, so bear with me. Replying to @GovGianforte and his dipshit compatriot in South Carolina. I grew up in a logging town in Montana. Blue collar family, mom & dad both worked. We grew a lot of our own food.
College was not in the cards for me, as school was really not my thing. I loved to work with my hands and knew I was going to work for a living all my life, and I have. I've worked labor intensive jobs for almost 40 years. Never earning much money.
When we were first married, we lived paycheck to paycheck for a long time. Seemed every raise I got was eaten up by rising gas, insurance and rent. Many times we had to choose which bills didn't get paid. We always had food and gas, but sometimes no power.
I finally got a good union job with benefits and good pay, but it took a long time to dig out of the hole substandard wages had put us in. A long time.
My point is this, @GovGianforte cancelling the extra unemployment benefits is not going to work the way you think.
My point is this, @GovGianforte cancelling the extra unemployment benefits is not going to work the way you think.
You want people to go back to work? Raise the fucking minimum wage here to $12/hr, to go up to$15/hr in 3 years. How about spending the stimulus money to subsidize childcare? How about working for low income Montanans? But, you won't, and the workers will leave.
You've torpedoed low income housing laws in our 2 main resort towns. Who's going to wait on the tourists?
Business owners, pay your goddamn people. Maybe cut your profit margin just a bit. Maybe charge the well off tourists for the privilege of ruining the Last Best Place.
Business owners, pay your goddamn people. Maybe cut your profit margin just a bit. Maybe charge the well off tourists for the privilege of ruining the Last Best Place.
But, you won't. You'll continue to pay $8/hr and bitch and complain that nobody wants to work. Not for you they don't. Can you blame them? Rent starts out at $1400/ month for a shit hole. $8-$9/hr won't even pay rent. Nobody will work for you? You earned it.
A company up here is advertising $17/ hr to start and can't find help. Unemployment insurance is not the problem. There's no one to work because no new people will move here because the housing costs are ridiculous. The crash will be horrific. Have a nice day.
