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IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: A school social studies assignment leads to social changes that spread from city-to-city. Assigned to come up with some idea that will improve mankind, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they in turn can “pay it forward” and so forth, positive changes can occur. What appears to initially be a failure, is indeed a success that is not immediately known but is traced backwards by a reporter who is a benefactor. The initial recipients of the boy are a drug addict (James Cavaziel), his badly scarred school teacher (Kevin Spacey), and his alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt). While physically and mentally scarred by past events, the teacher is not the only one bearing scars. The young boy fears his mother’s fate, particularly at his brutal, alcoholic father’s (Jon Bon Jovi) hands. The mother also bears scars from her childhood with a homeless, alcoholic mother (Angie Dickinson). |
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Actors: Spacey Kevin,Osment Haley Joel,Mohr Jay,Caviezel James,Bon Jovi Jon,Ramsey David,Werntz Gary,Donato Marc,Drama,Romance,
16 to 17 minimal wage is plain and simple exploitation?
I am under 18 and over 16 my minimal wage is exploitation ( a pissy ?3.57 per hour) and because all employers know they can get away with paying young workers this amount because it is alowed by law, its hard to find a job that pays over the young persons minimal wage.
I ask the question, do you think the minimal wage for 16 year olds should be the same as 18 to 20 year olds? ?3.57 is a ridiculously small amount compared to what 18+ get payed. At 16 you can work full time but you do not start making a wage you can live off until you are 18. I think this is cruel and unfair. It leaves young people open to exploitation. Also it leaves people who do not wish to go to collage not want to bother working and just end up sponging off the benefit system and becoming work shy. I got job seekers allowance when I became unemployed in January this year till September and I have done the maths and I am actually better off living off JSA than working 20 odd hours a week, 5 days a week.( considering it costs me ?4 pounds to get forward and back from work, which the wonderfull job centre wont cover the costs of because im out the area, even tho ironicly my work place is literaly oposite the job centre I used to claim at). It all feels like its a loosing battle.
What do you think? Should the young persons minimal wage for 16 and 17 year olds be put up to make people feel like its worth working and try to curve the benefit spongers who think the only way in life is to get pregnant young and just live off the benefits because it seems an easy way out?
I agree that’s totally out of order, minimum wage should be the same for everyone.
Guyzers | Nov 19, 2009
So don’t work.
Mosha #2 | Nov 19, 2009
When I was 17 I use to work 56 hours a week, and you are complaining about 20. The only way to succeed is to show people you are worth more, not to bitch and complain.
John D | Nov 19, 2009
people who tend to choose to get pregnant and sponge of the tax payer will do that even if the minimum wage was ?50 an hour.
i started work in 1983 and was on ?1.17 an hour but then you could buy your first home for about ?19.000-?22.000, a pint of lager was 70p 20 B&H fags where ?1.10
the fact is most 16-18 year olds live at home with mum and dad you only have to bung your parents ?20 and the rest is yours.
you can spend the rest on clothes and taking your g/f to the flicks
Tin-God | Nov 19, 2009
The minimum wage what ever age is exploitation but remember the minimum wage is one of the social victories Labour made! - I think not.
Two decades ago I earned more at the age of 15, than the 17 - 18 level of minimum wage now. Thanks Labour.
Edit I not even talking in Labour’s ‘real’ terms, I was on ?5 an hour, so in absolute terms.
New Labour Voter | Nov 19, 2009
it is becouse with 16-17 you need study and don’t work
in Brazil the minimal wage it’s R$:465,00 or ?160,00 for month for all ages above 16 years
adriano a | Nov 19, 2009
I would like to see the level of minimum wage set at ONE level of say ?6.50 per hour right across the board as it would give more people MORE incentive to work for a living. Yes, the price of beer and everything would go up to pay for it, but also more money would be spent by those that earn the minimum wages which would help the economy, and more of those people would be taken out of the benefits trap too.
I am a firm believer in the minimum wage, but I don’t think there should be 3 different levels set as there are now.
FOXY | Nov 19, 2009
The problem with minimum wages of any kind is that they hurt the very people they are designed to protect. Consider the following;
An employer needs some extra help. Nothing particularly complicated, just some filing that needs to be done regularly. They repair cars and do not make much money so he does not have spare cash. He can either hire an inexperienced new person or give one of his existing employees some overtime.
For choice, he would rather bring on someone new as it gives him a chance to train someone up but if minimum wage means that he can’t hire a full time person cheaply enough, he will give out some overtime to make the numbers work.
Who is the loser here? The person looking for work who is likely to be young or inexperienced or otherwise not easily employable (perhaps newly out of prison or rehab).
If he or she can’t get work because there is a minimum wage barrier, he might never be able to get onto that ladder.
In some parts of Europe things are so bad that young people work for free until they are 30 years old because they can’t get paid employment. Reason? minimum wage and employment protection
Politically Correct | Nov 19, 2009
Your untrained for anything , You cant be bothered to get educated to improve yourself
What makes you think you are worth any more? ? ?
GEORGE B | Nov 20, 2009
Dale Glass