Posted on 07/11/2013 3:58:24 AM PDT by markomalley
Low-wage workers connected with the nation’s marquee museum network will strike on Thursday, continuing a string of recent demonstrations to promote better pay for employees at federal buildings.
Good Jobs Nation, a group representing low-wage workers employed under federal concession agreements, has organized protests throughout the morning in front of several Smithsonian museums.
Those events are scheduled to start at 10 a.m. with a press conference and a street-theater sketch near the Air and Space Museum, where actors playing Ronald McDonald and Uncle Sam will climb into bed together. That performance is meant to represent the relationship between private-sector CEOs and the federal government.
The group plans to move next to the Smithsonian Castle, where protesters are expected to demand that President Obama take action to guarantee a “living wage” for workers employed at federal facilities.
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Exactly. It’s funny, but really pretty damn sad.
You can thank the progressives and their NWO style free trade agreements.
NAFTA is but one shining example.
Raising the minimum wage is not the answer, it only results in zero sum cost push inflation.
Abandoned the progressive “service” economy and go back to a manufacture based economy.
Damn, I wish I was pulling duty that day! I’d go down just to walk through the picket line.
Using the Reagan method seems appropriate here, fire them all and bring in a new crew that appreciates having a job in this economy. That way the old workers can use the Pelosi method to help the economy by collecting unemployment.
Reminds me of the time Ronald Reagan just up and fired all the whining air traffic controllers.
Little off, IMHO.
They haven’t the brains to figure more $$ = more $$ taken out ala TAXES. They should be demanding a reduction in gov’t/taxes
I’ve posted on other threads over the past few years that anyone with a skill set commanding $50K or more has forces furiously at work behind the scenes (in government and industry) to either import people here to do the work or send it overseas. Neither party represents American workers in any way.
This pre-dates Obama; he’s just making it worse. Without drastic action (such as war between India and Red China), I don’t see how it improves. The dynamics behind it are apolitical; money talks.
I agree with your points.
Regarding sustainability: Americans are reacting by ending such reckless behavior as breeding and buying homes; the fallout from this will last for decades, even as government imports foreigners to live in the homes and fill the schools with their children.
“With a more level field of play, competition became a force to be reckoned with.” We didn’t have to re-build them so they could hollow out our economy. We’re still training countless Red Chinese in our universities, offices, and factories; why?
“How that competition will be met is now being sorted out.” See Americans’ reaction to sustainability above to understand how it is being sorted out.
“Museum guards and a living wage is a political matter much the same as Walmart in DC.” As with other work where people threaten to strike, if companies would abide by legal supply and demand and government would stop undercutting wages with cheap imported labor, many of these people would probably earn what they are demanding. In an increasing number of cases, they are fighting for what the jobs USED TO PAY. Before anyone suggests they should adjust, that is a hopeless task; business and government will conspire to keep them at a bare sustenance level.
If we could function as a secure nation rather than some Third World toilet with open borders and selective enforcement of laws, you would be correct.
———Red Chinese-——
So 60’s
the better descriptive of the young chinese striving to lift them selves from the gray world of their parents and grand parents is Chicaps. Our competition is from the Chicaps striving mightily for better lives. Imitating Americans in not a bad strategy.
Then there are the chinese girls wearing Daisey Maes...... classic Americana polluting the old ways and values.
I wasn’t even born in the 60s; I call them that because people pretending they’re just like us makes me sick. They still have no democracy at all, they still butcher babies and limit women to one, and they are still an enemy to anyone who still loves America as envisioned by the founding fathers. They are the de facto owners of North Korea, who would’ve folded decades ago without their propping up.
India is much more of a threat than Red China, because those people have a voice in their future.
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