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California minimum wage hike hits L.A. apparel industry: 'The exodus has begun'
LA Times ^
| April 15, 2016
| Shan Li and Natalie Kitroeff
Posted on 04/16/2016 2:55:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
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posted on
04/16/2016 2:55:11 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
How’s it feel to shoot your self in the foot economically?
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:00:46 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
To: lowbridge
I read the entire article at the link.
My teenage granddaughters buy from American Apparel. I’ve been shopping with them and the quality is all right. Nothing I would want, but fashionable for their age.
American Apparel can easily relocate to Texas. CA is NOT business friendly. Democrats run the show.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:10:33 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: lowbridge
I simply can’t relate to the mentality of demanding more instead of improving myself.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:12:59 AM PDT
by
Vision
(Obama is not a well man.)
To: Fai Mao; lowbridge
Hows it feel to shoot your self in the foot economically? They will never accept responsibility. It will always be the fault of the greedy profit seekers.
It is those rich factory owners wanting their third Rolls or second summer home in the Hamptons.
The fact that no one wants to pay an extra $10 for a tee-shirt so that someone that they have never met can afford a 70 inch TV
Sorry folks the simple fact is that even in a communist country the realities of capitalism apply. The price of everything is defendant on the rules of supply and demand AND on what the market will bear.
If a tee-shirt will not sell at $50 then the price must fall to that at which it will sell. If the price of labor precludes selling at that price then the cost of labor must fall or the tee-shirt will not be manufactured and the labor will be unemployed.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:13:14 AM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: lowbridge
As with most things when it comes to Democrats, it is not about minimum wage. It is about votes.
If they can convince more people to vote Democrat even as it destroys the economy, they will do so.
We now know the Republican party is the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:26:07 AM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I think it would be ironic if Hillary was arrested the day after she secures the nomination.)
To: Vision
Wages are, and always have been, a measure of the productivity that the employee can bring to his employer.
If the employee cannot provide enough additional value to the product to pay for the cost of the maintenance of his position in the work force, and allow the owner or proprietor to earn a positive cash flow, then the position disappears.
If there is no growth, then contraction sets in. There is no “neutral point”.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:41:26 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
To: Fai Mao
any chance this minimum wage nonsense is why my wife is getting paid 10 bucks an hour more than she used to for her advertising work.
making double what a McDonalds workers will make in Manhattan is an insult now, I guess, so maybe they’re throwing more at the workers?
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:43:35 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: lowbridge
. Now, Los Angeles firms are facing another big hurdle California’s minimum wage hitting $15 an hour by 2022
It will all get worse if D-bags keep voting for D-bags.
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posted on
04/16/2016 3:54:06 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job....)
To: lowbridge
The lawmakers knew this would happen, so it was foreseen and therefore intended.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:08:31 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Fai Mao; lowbridge
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:12:19 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
The catch is that you have to keep your pony with you at all times.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:22:46 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: I want the USA back
The lawmakers knew this would happen, so it was foreseen and therefore intended.
I disagree. I think we've actually reached the point where our government consists of people who are actually dumber than average. Sure, you get the occasional smart guy in there, but the ones that are smart are most likely bought and paid for (the dumb ones are too but they just don't know it). The rest are just stupid. Seriously.
Leftism is an anti-intellectual movement by its nature - it demands that you ignore what is right in front of your eyes and instead believe what should be. "Men and Women are equal", "Islam is a religion of peace", "Diversity is our strength", etc etc. Any candidate who can be elected by leftists has to submit to the feel-good lies. The farther leftward the country goes, the more they have to submit, until they don't even know what reality is anymore.
In short, I don't think the dumbasses had any idea they were about to destroy what's left of the California economy when they did this.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:28:13 AM PDT
by
fr_freak
To: P.O.E.
(Old joke)
“How many humans do your horses own?”
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: onyx
Democrats RUIN the show.
Fixed it for you!
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:29:34 AM PDT
by
9422WMR
("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
To: fr_freak
Idiocracy is here.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:30:37 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: fr_freak
Leftism is an anti-intellectual movement by its nature - it demands that you ignore what is right in front of your eyes and instead believe what should be. “Men and Women are equal”, “Islam is a religion of peace”, “Diversity is our strength”, etc etc. Any candidate who can be elected by leftists has to submit to the feel-good lies. The farther leftward the country goes, the more they have to submit, until they don’t even know what reality is anymore.
Well put
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:34:45 AM PDT
by
LMAO
(I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
To: lowbridge
If workers are going to get a wage they can survive on, there has to be public education involved. Younger generations don't demand "made in the USA". Except for discount store merchandise, low wages aren't causing the merchandise to cost less. It's endorsers, corporate profit, and transportation sources that get the savings.
A wage that folks could survive on would be a good thing. It would curtail a lot of federal handouts. What's going on now isn't that. No one is asking the protestors if they buy made in the USA goods whenever possible.
A combination of keeping invaders (legal and illegal) out of the US, protection from unfair practices for imports, US jobs for US citizens, and curtailing regulations of startups, and wages would take care of themselves. Supply and demand could function.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:38:54 AM PDT
by
grania
To: fr_freak
"Men and Women are equal", "Islam is a religion of peace", "Diversity is our strength"The Democrat Party in a nutshell: Slogans, aphorisms and nonsequiturs.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:47:28 AM PDT
by
metesky
(My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
To: lowbridge
I believe is states rights and CA has the right to do this. We should be applauding this experiment and the potential bad economic consequences it will cause. This reckless experiment in minimum wage will be laid open for all to see, right? Let's celebrate this.
Each state is a small independent country. That is the original intent of the republic.
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posted on
04/16/2016 4:56:57 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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