Posted on 07/17/2004 1:31:26 PM PDT by Pikamax
Nonsense. His position is clear to all. I am under no obligation whatsoever.
Don't worry, be happy!
$11 per hour to be a maid is pretty good, particularly when you factor in the tax-free tips.
Did you noticed that the illegal workforce as a tool for low end job wage stagnation was not mentioned?
DK
Another thing that's never mentioned in regards to illegals and work is that not only will they work for less, but their sheer numbers that keep increasing drive those wages down even further. When labor pools expand, the wages drop. More illegals means lower wages for all illegals.
Not me, I'm on my third raise this year (past 6 months), and I might just manage a fourth.
It's not bad to see your income increase 40% in one year without having to switch companies.
Good point. They are also not covered by the miriad of paperwork costs usually associated with permanent employment. So that cost is saved.
DK
So?
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.html
This study is pretty good done in May this year.
Republicans owe much of their electoral success to crossovers from patriotic, socially conservative, working-class voters. Their views on non-economic issues are the reason why. But if this trend continues, it gives the 'Rats an opening. Republicans are already hobbed by an image as the anything-business-wants-to-hell-with-everybody-else party. Issues such as stagnant wages and offshoring could drive these voters away.
How 'bout a loan? ;-)
No mention that the "Pew Hispanic Center found that workers who were not U.S. citizens claimed 378,496 jobs out of a net increase of 1.3 million from the first three months of 2003 through the first three months of this year." To wit, no mention of ILLEGAL "cheap" labor on labor supply / wage rates. nyt employees value diversity so the topic is off limits.
Altogether I'd say the article had little value though it did point out widely known factors such as in recent years spending was fueled mostly by debt, as consumers took advantage of bedrock-low interest rates to whip out their credit cards and refinance their mortgages.
Census Bureau numbers support the sagging earnings at the bottom end (and middle) as the higher earners get more and more of the aggregate income. At least it's not always the same people year to year, I suppose. This is a trend that been tracked through Republican and Democrat administrations. Why it's now "anti-Bush" to talk about it is a puzzle.
I don't think it's a given that these will be deducted, the way waitresses get taxes deducted on the amount of their tips, because tipping the maid is not an expected thing, the way tipping a waitress is. At any rate, the amount of tips this maid was getting certainly wasn't mentioned in this whinefest about how much she's struggling.
Shocking! How could that have been left out? ;)
I bought two little rib-eyes, a half-pint of sour cream for the potatoes, and a head of lettuce and two tomatoes for the green salad. (I already had the potatoes, Texas Toast, steak sauce, and frozen veggies at home).
The grocery bill was $18, not counting the gas to drive to the store.
I wonder how restaurants are coping with syrocketing food prices. Beef, chicken, pork, dairy products, vegetables...all about double from last year.
Thank goodness beer is still the same.
Yet that's the whole reason for uncontrolled immigration --- to decrease wages by bringing in millions of unskilled who will work for less than they can live on but use Medicaid, WIC, food stamps, and government housing subsidies gladly.
The opening is already there and huge! But the Democrats are ever more pigheaded - as abortion, athesim and pederasty are the most important for them.
So when so called Reagan Democrats are given choice between promotion of decadence or undermining their wages they are forced to chose the second as smaller evil.
If ever Democrats returned to the old style New Deal with the concern for working class and morality they would win with the one hand tied behing their back each time like FDR was winning.
What solution do you propose? That American workers go without medical care? (if they pay from their own pockets it has to come from somewhere, if not from wages then from credit cards or else). Or that the medical costs are somehow lowered?
the downward spiral of the US into a 3rd world nation of a few rich, many poor, and almost no middle class has just begun.
The free-traitors are succeeding in starting the drive of the US down to the levels of India and China.
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