Looks like they want to be in the center of the NAU.
Posted on 07/05/2006 11:00:40 PM PDT by Trupolitik
"A little competition may be good, but I'd personally like to see just enough Mexican and Canadian competition to get back to wage parity."
Be careful of what you ask for. Go here, scroll down and see the pictures of last month's teacher union strike in Mexico.
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=158&topic_id=603
There is nothing like "mob" rule.
Hedge, Kim, people read "Mein Kampf" for 10 years and didn't believe that either. So why should people who can read government web sites believe them ... or Corsi ...?
Any idea why the Hemispheria 2006 summit was cancelled? Just wondering.
For so long I thought it was just the liberals with their heads in the sand; it's been a shock and disappointment to find so many conservatives with them there, too... or can it be they have ulterior, business, reasons to look the other way and sell out our nation?
Wage parity? Have you ever seen what these longshoremen have to do??? These have become very technical jobs that have to run like an efficient machine (and hope the machines don't break down)... Before you begrudge their income, try doing the job (and know I'm not a longshoreman or have any relatives who are, but I've actually seen what they do).
*ping* to an example thread.
Don't miss post #62.
"Hedge, Kim, people read "Mein Kampf" for 10 years and didn't believe that either. So why should people who can read government web sites believe them ... or Corsi ...?"
Like I said, and maybe you'll agree, I've come to the conclusion, that not only DO they believe what Corsi's written, because it is Bush's agenda and they support it.
The reason they frequent these threads is because, just as with illegal immigration, they can't stand for Bush to be criticized on anything. Tony Snow made a comment about the visit to Duncan Donuts during the WH presser and, naturally, I posted in that regard. The following reply was posted to me in an attempt to shut me up. I have found, since then, that the same thing is being posted by the few pro-Bush-amnesty types whenever they do not want illegal immigration discussed, even if it is on topic and appropriate to do so.
"Posted by Admin Moderator to kerryusama04; All
On News/Activism 04/25/2006 10:03:03 PM EDT • 26 of 70
This is a thread about Mr. Snow. Unless you can stay on topic, stay off this thread. And the same goes for everybody else. We will start suspending anybody and everybody who addresses Illegal Immigration where it is irrelevant. Keep On Topic!"
as mr. spock would say, fascinating... i wonder how many people here look under their beds at night before getting in to them.
I'm for wage parity and the longshoreman's union broke the parity scale long ago. When a kid can come out of high school and make more than someone with a 4-year engineering degree, the situation is beyond madness. When looking at the history of the creation of the NAU by our politicians, the complicity of the unions in its creation is hard to deny. Unions have gone from the noble purpose of protecting workers from abuse in the workplace to the greedy purpose of extracting as much as they can out of big business and ultimately, consumers. The efficiencies and cost savings that engineers and businessmen brought to big business in the form of automation and innovation in business operation were quickly evaporated by union greed. Big business effectively had its hands tied and resorted to buying off politicians to 1) ram through free trade so that they could move their factories overseas and take advantage of cheap labor and 2) foster lax enforcement of our nation's immigration laws to supply cheap labor to those businesses that couldn't move overseas due to relatively high distribution costs of doing so.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but some reality needs to return to how a worker is valued- WAGE PARITY. In my perspective and most others, for that matter, creativity, vision, education, skill, and efficiency should be rewarded. That is one of the guiding principles of a capitalistic society. Unions have effectively subverted that principle and now protect relatively unskilled workers using socialist practices that would make Marx proud. While I am concerned for the US worker in the face of foreign competition whether legal or illegal, he is going to have to accept a greater wage disparity between those who practice creativity, vision, education, skill, and efficiency and those who do not.
I have and it's not worth $150K per year.
But CEO's are worth 262 times what they pay their employees?
I went out side and it was darkening..... I think the sky is falling.
Tell everyone you see..... the sky is falling.
Likewise many doctors and hospitals are sending tests and x-rays off to Pakistan and India to be read vs paying a radiologist here in the USA to do the readings -- and the people doing the reading in those countries may not have the same level of education as the radiologist here in the States. Also... hospitals sending billing (with your ID number) off to Pakistan for billing is quite common these days. Recently a person over there decided she wanted a raise and held up a hospitals records until they gave her the large raise... something that if I did here in the States would be a crime, but was legal being done by someone overseas.
Exellent information guys!
Yup, lower wages to Mexico's level.
Ya' gotta dumb down to their level first, so that is just one reason why "Johnny Can't Read," and another reason why U. S. Public Edjahkayshun is a sham.
You are exactly right Larousse!!
Also, if you dismantle the educated middle class, you effectively end the Republic.
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