Holiday Respect

            All stores should be closed on Thanksgiving Day. Isn’t Thanksgiving supposed to be about family time? If you work on Thanksgiving, you’re going to be away from your family, slaving away when you’re supposed to be sitting at the table, eating turkey, and enjoying yourself. Everyone can easily make a list of the things they need from the store and get it the day before. If you forget something for your Thanksgiving dinner, oh well, maybe next time. I feel that family time is a bit more important than making sure you have extra butter for your mashed potatoes.

            Also, not only should stores be closed on Thanksgiving, but I believe that there should be no such thing as “Black Friday.” Who wants to stay up all day and then go into work that night with a bunch of crazy 12am shoppers? If you have to go into work at midnight, then you either sleep all day, making no time for family on Thanksgiving Day, or you worry about how miserably tired you’re going to be at work when you’re supposed to be enjoying yourself. People may think it’s fun to go shopping with Grandma and Aunt and Mom after you all have a nice meal, but many people wouldn’t be very happy if they were the ones working and not shopping with their families. I find it selfish that people are ruining others family time just to buy things for themselves.

            On Thanksgiving you’re supposed to be thankful for what you have, not worry about what you’re about to have that night or the next day. Everyone says they’re thankful for the food on their table and the wonderful family members they have, and then they take the money those family members might have given them to go blow it on unnecessary items; it’s kind of contradictory if you ask me. Everyone should be able to enjoy their holiday and not be worrying about what kind of rude customers they might have to deal with that night or what the biggest sales may be at their favorite store. All stores should be closed on Thanksgiving and the day after.

Minimum Wage Increase- Argumentative Topic 

            Minimum wage has gone up quite a substantial amount just in the past few months. So many people were always complaining about only getting seven dollars and some odd cents an hour working at fast food companies or grocery stores. Many people have always dreamed of minimum wage increasing so they would get more money for their simple jobs. A few people I have heard from have said, “why is it fair that we get don’t get paid as much as someone who doesn't even work nearly as hard as we do” or, “we go to work every day too we should get paid at least a little bit more”. What they either didn't know or just didn't think about was that when minimum wage goes up, so does the cost of everything around you.

            Minimum wage increasing has made the cost of many things rise. Many people are so ecstatic about getting paid more at their jobs, but many people are also upset that things they usually pay $1.00 for are now $1.75, or so on. For example, driving down the road I saw a sign for a Dunkin Donuts restaurant stating that they were hiring starting at $10.00/hour for all positions; this also means that the price of coffee and other items there are going to skyrocket. Many people have different views on this because there are both positives and negatives to the situation. Just because people are now getting paid more money walking into a job, doesn't mean that they’ll have more money in their pocket at the end of the day.