Many of our lowest paid workers are now carrying the nations load.

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  1. 61falcon

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    We are witnessing a strange phenomenon as we as a nation are being carried by some of our nations lowest paid workers.It is our store shelf stocker's and grocery and drug store cashiers,gas station attendants,hospital staffs,garbage and trash workers,postal service and many other low paid professions who are now carrying our nation on their backs.We should all acknowledge we owe all of them a debt of gratitude.My thanks to one and all who are currently working and keeping our nation running.
     
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    No thanks necessary, just stay home unless you are fulfilling essential needs... :)
     
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    Uncle Ferd says we should pay `em all...

    ... more money!
     
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    Gives a whole new meaning to the term "essential personnel" doesn't it?
     
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    Where did you read that?
     
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    I remember a hypothetical that right-wingers used to ask years ago. Especially libertarians used to often ask this at parties. It went something like this: "If you had to choose between having only the rich class or only the poor class survive a world apocalypse, which would you choose?"

    Of course, the right wingers were quick to point out that, since rich people already knew how to create jobs, that who they wanted to survive because they would rebuild the world.

    This kinda puts that hypothetical a bit closer to reality, doesn't it?
     
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    I don't recall those parties. I was working.
     
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    I’m sort of perplexed by your post. These people are doing no more than they were 10-20 years ago. They are just working like the rest of us. Why now? Why did you recognize us now? Why did you make a point of saying thanks today instead of yesterday ? Or last week, month, year?
    Sorry, but I’m calling virtue signaling on this one.
     
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    Can you link me to this poll that was posted or are you making things up again?
     
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    I'm in an essential business, I am helping keep all the plants processing foods, making towels and tissue and other sanitary products, equipment and mask and on and on and then logistics to get them transported. You know keeping the nation running.

    No I don't need a thanks nor looking for one.
     
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    The hell you say.

    They're risking the health of themselves and their families and I have been thanking them since this began. And they're doing it under incredibly tough circumstances

    THANK YOU
     
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    Yes they are, but they always have been. My question still Stands. Why today?
     
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    Please note my current grocery store is employee owned...
     
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    Today because THEY are a very significant portion of what is keeping our nation viable and most of our population still alive.
     
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    Screw these Trumpers


    THANK YOU

    To all the truckers and warehouse workers and delivery people and mail delivery folks...not to mention the cops and firefighters and doctors and nurses and mechanics who keep the hospitals running and maintenance folks who clean up that incredibly toxic mess....

    You keep us going and we will be forever in your debt!!


    THANK YOU
     
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    You are right to include the cops and firefighters.Cops are getting hit really hard in NYC with several deaths and many testing positive and a high number out sick.
     
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    Don't forget that guy with the mop cleaning up that hospital mess after a patient dies...risking his health and that of his family ...for minimum wage
     
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    What are you talking about. What poll?

    Are you ok?
     
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    They deserve a living wage, decent health insurance, and good benefits for what they are doing.
     
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    I'm just glad to be making my normal paycheck. I'll take that risk to keep my family fed.

    All my cop, military, firefighter, trucker, doctor, nurses, mechanics, and maintenance friends are "Trumpers". We say "You're welcome" and "screw you too".
     
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    Sorry you said parties...............oh that proves it.
     
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    That "screw you" was to the unappreciative Trumpers on this thread who do NOT appreciate your efforts.
     
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    PssssT….Your straw man is showing.
     
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    See, where you say "Screw Trumpers" and thank these people cause of the circumstance, right wingers thank these people constantly for being fruitful members of society at any given moment. You shouldn't just say "thanks" to virtue signal when someone helps you out in a Crisis, you should thank them all the time. I am sure you will say "Thanks" to Trump when you get your $1200 right?
     
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    The problem here is that even though certain low-paying jobs have become "essential", that still doesn't make the work "skilled labor".

    The jobs may be essential, but that doesn't make the particular people working those jobs essential. With the sort of unemployment and economic hardship that's to come, the people currently working unskilled jobs will be extremely easy to replace.

    Any low-paid worker who thinks the "essential" nature of the unskilled job they're working will give them some sort of leverage to bargain with is going to be proven sadly mistaken.
     
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