Posted on 12/03/2013 9:34:29 AM PST by Kaslin
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On the other hand these companies are getting a taste of socialist community organizing. These are exactly the same companies that are helping out the marxists by pushing amnesty. It couldnt happen to a nicer bunch of useful idiots. To bad they can’t see themselves for the suckers they are.
“Walmart and McD’s could double their employee salaries. Then raise prices. Then lose consumers. Then lose profits. Then close facilities. Then lay off employees.”
Not as bad idea then they woudln’t be pressuring congress to grant amnesty. Theya re proving Lenin’s dictum that the capitalist will sell the rope to his own hanging.
I say it would be more efficient to just to nationalize all these evil corporations and convert all Super Walmarts to public housing. Then we could have the government deliver the fodder directly and government workers make a hell of a lot more than minimum wage. All McDonalds should be razed and replaced with Michelle-approved school cafeterias. It’s time to cut out the middle man!
They should advocate for a $60 minimum wage so we can all be rich. Well at least until the price change that day.
HP contract jobs have generally been lower paying than most others.
There will be a domino effect and the idgits will be right where they were before. Why they can’t see it I don’t know...
> The minimum wage should be $1000 per hour.
Then let them live with it...................
I predict $800 Big Macs
Anyone who has been to a Buc-ee’s knows that food is ordered and paid for on a computer station. Fast and efficient.
I love my local Chase bank automatic teller that allows me to do transactions with very litle effort and never a line.
Want to buy anything from the hundred Dollar Menu?
Well, it would definitely cut down on the obesity rate...............
Most of these workers should be happy they are not paid what they are actually worth.
No.
Artificial price floors don’t improve conditions for anyone. They just end up pricing out marginal employers and you get a net increase in unemployment.
Econ 101.
Walmart also gives a billion or more to local and international charitable causes.
Why stop at $15 per hour?
Just make it $1,500 per hour.
Once you break the linkage between the value of an employee’s contribution to his employer and the amount of their reimbursement the sky is the limit.
In a free market, labor, like everything else, is subject to the law of supply and demand. Wages are subject to the same law. If there are a low number of workers, then wages will be higher.
Unfortunately, we are not in a free market. The crony corporations and the liberals seeking to create serfs have been bringing in millions of illegal aliens and legal aliens to flood the market with workers.
That has driven wages down, since there's an oversupply of workers.
So, that law of supply and demand says that wages probably aren't what they should be. Most reports I've seen have shown that wages are not keeping up.
I'm not saying "companies should pay more". I'm saying we have a distorted market. The real question is how to get the market back in balance.Get the market back in balance and the wage issue will straighten itself out.
Enforce existing immigration laws. Go after employers who hire illegals. Refuse to pass any immigration bill that even hints at letting more workers into this country. Reduce LEGAL immigration to zero until the U6 employment rate is at about 8%. Build the fence. Strongly support homemaker moms and breadwinner dads as the best family option. (Reduces female employment and increases education of children.)
Wages will then recover.
What percentage of the population makes less than $15 per hour?
I shop at our local hippie co-op. They have racks of liberal rags supporting this idea.
The co-op doesn’t pay their employees at all. #irony
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