Posted on 07/27/2006 6:53:01 AM PDT by Jean S
Here's an idea. Give everyone 30 dollars an hour. Why not 40? or 50?
Then when you complain that a bottle of soda costs 12 bucks, you will understand how everything is relative.
libs don't get it..without employers..there are no employees..
Minimum wage isn't designed to support a family of five as a "living wage." It's designed to be a high school kid's first job, where he can earn money for college and learn responsibility. These lefties just don't get it.
Wal-Mart and Target must carry through on their threats.
There are other places just as lucrative to put their money and build their stores.
There is no reason on earth to pay a high school kid looking for extra money $10 and hour with $3 worth of benefits per hour.
These should be starter jobs. Those who commit to the stores for career positions that allow overtime, reassignments, etc. (all the stuff that goes with career) will see their incomes rapidly go to the 10 and higher level.
All they need to do is make special kiosks in the store for lease departments and call themselves a mall.
From Crain's Chicago -- The new Wal-Mart Stores Inc. location opening Friday in suburban (Chicago) Evergreen Park received a record 25000 applications for 325 positions, ..
I guess the booming economy never made it to Liberal-Land. What's the unemployment rate in the Land of Lyin' Ryan and Guv Baloneyvich, anyway?
Well there as to be a cap on the minimum wage. I think about $1,000,000/hr; because $200,000 for a loaf of bread sounds good to me.
/sarc
The "Big-Boxes" are not in the city are they? Isn't Wal-mart just outside the city line? I heard about this yesterday and those people were saying the "city" has no control outside its city borders so this is a silly waste of time.
Yes that's the situation with Evergreen Park, just outside the city limits, there are a few others like this in Chicagoland.
This ordinance will affect the WallyWorld built in the Austin neighborhood, I think it's at the intersection of Cicero, North Ave, and Grand. It's a high crime, poor, disputed gang turf, war-zone type area. I think that's the real problem, WM brings in cameras and a lot of "street entreprenuers" are camera-shy. WalMart would gentrify the area.
Did you notice how "supporters" (AKA Union officials) are in the gallery and "protesters" (AKA working folks) are regulated to the second floor?
It amazes me that these mathematical genius's /sarcasm can determine what a living wage is! All one needs to do is check out the starting manager's salary for such stores as Stewart's Ice Cream Shops, Friendly's, Home Depot, etc. They are placed on salary and work 60+ hours per week. If you take a starting salary of $30,000/52/60 it appears it also needs to reviewed by the Chicago statisticians. Yes, the way the Wal-Mart stores and Target stores will handle this is raise prices or build somewhere else. So, in the end the town folks are the real losers. No businesses=no jobs=no tax revenue=losers!
I couldn't but help notice the SEIU supporters in the gallery, wearing their purple and gold t-shirts.
My girlfriend is a nurse at a place that's represented by SEIU. She's very pro-labor - but despises SEIU and says as unions go, they're worthless in representing the employees.
It amazes me that these mathematical genius's /sarcasm can determine what a living wage is! All one needs to do is check out the starting manager's salary for such stores as Stewart's Ice Cream Shops, Friendly's, Home Depot, etc. They are placed on salary and work 60+ hours per week. If you take a starting salary of $30,000/52/60 it appears it also needs to reviewed by the Chicago statisticians. Yes, the way the Wal-Mart stores and Target stores will handle this is raise prices or build somewhere else. So, in the end the town folks are the real losers. No businesses=no jobs=no tax revenue=losers!
"libs don't get it..without employers..there are no employees.."
... and with no employees no tax revenue and no need for government. DAH because there is no one left to govern. Amen.
I agree with you totally.
Hope Wal-Mart and Target play hard ball.
Toledo?
I use to work at the flour mill across from Tony Pacos.
Anyone got an uber-sized can of Raid?
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