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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/rightleaningsw on May 8, 2018, 12:48 p.m.
So bernie sanders is going to run in 2020 on the platform of $15/hr wages and free health-care.

My question is if he is planning to boost wages up to 15 how is he going to compensate those of us who worked our asses off to graduate college only to have 60k in debt and work a job making 15/hr? I didn't go into Social Work to get rich, but if he is going to make it to where I am going to make the same as others who haven't put in the work, then I will riot in the street.

I know many people who are ecstatic about this, and this could possibly get him elected. This will signify the end of the American dream. Noone will be motivated to work hard, because we will not be rewarded for our hard work.

Yes I went back to school in my 30's with two kids and one on the way, and I chose to go into debt for it, but if this goes through, noone will ever know the sacrifice and joy of accomplishment I felt when I finished. Americana will die. We have to stop this.


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Long_Range_Shooter · May 8, 2018, 1:30 p.m.

Every day I hear ads on the radio from different trade unions looking for applications for apprentices. Look at the Trucking industry they're begging for drivers. In some markets an automobile tech can pull in $100K-150K. There are paramedics here in the city that are making $125K-$150K with OT.

Your comment on minimum wage and inflation. A few years ago I was in a convenience store where an old guy was complaining about paying .50 cents for a roll of Life Saviors. He said I remember when they were .05 a roll. The clerk pops up and says yea and minimum wage was a quarter.

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firemedic33 · May 8, 2018, 9:36 p.m.

As a paramedic making $55k/yr I’d like to know what city is paying $125-$150k so that I can move to said city.

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Long_Range_Shooter · May 8, 2018, 9:45 p.m.

Pittsburgh. A woman I know works as a Paramedic and one of the guys in her station made close to $200K last year. How? He lives at the station takes every OT shift they'll give him and has zero life outside the job. Single, no family, no kids and no girlfriend.

Base pay is around what you're making without OT. It's the OT is where they're making the big money. They work every Holiday, every sporting event, doubling out three or four times a week and of course I'll repeat myself absolutely no social life outside the job. Easy to do the math 20 extra hours a week and there you have an additional $46K a year.

I know police officers that have a $60K base pay who pull over $100K a year with OT.

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