Seriously.
I'm sure we could go back in even recent past, but I will start here, as this was just in the news: Delphi Corp.. They are on the verge of bankrupcy. On the news they said that unless they cut wages by around $10 an hour, they will go under. What?! How much are those people making...ANYway! Around here, there are factory workers who make like $8.67 an hour!
And then they talked about how the car companies will have to do the same thing. Well, I knew years back that they were paying their assembly line workers some salaries and bennies that reached the moon. I remember saying that back in the 70's (I think it was) that *I* would work there for HALF of what they were paying their union workers.
If some of these companies are paying let's say $20 an hour; you could have a husband and wife work there and make $40 an hour household income! That is $1600 a WEEK! A WEEEEEK! Who can't live off that?! But I think what auto workers make (I haven't a clue about Delphi) a lot more than that an hour I think.
Who can't work for $15 an hour?
Is it because the area that you live that it can't be done? Where you live, does a $100,000 midwest-value home and lot cost you like $600,000 where you live? That is silly. The reason that it does is because they (the market) knows you make like $50 an hour, or whatever. So the market demands your money.
Everybody loses when that happens because we are competing with the world, folks. China, et al.
So why not bring everything down. Bring wages down AND costs will come down too. That way your actual standard will remain about the same, only the costs will be lower and we will be better equipped to compete with some of these foreign markets on a more level playing field.
Am I off in left field somehow, or am I right?
Now, this may be somewhat off the beaten path, but can you tell me WHO is making all the money in China so that they are building these ulrtra modern cities over there on massive scales, if their standard of living is so beneath us...that the workers are paid these low wages? SOMEbody over there is getting the money to raise the standards high for at least those beautiful cities. Does someone here understand all this?
I'm sure we could go back in even recent past, but I will start here, as this was just in the news: Delphi Corp.. They are on the verge of bankrupcy. On the news they said that unless they cut wages by around $10 an hour, they will go under. What?! How much are those people making...ANYway! Around here, there are factory workers who make like $8.67 an hour!
And then they talked about how the car companies will have to do the same thing. Well, I knew years back that they were paying their assembly line workers some salaries and bennies that reached the moon. I remember saying that back in the 70's (I think it was) that *I* would work there for HALF of what they were paying their union workers.
If some of these companies are paying let's say $20 an hour; you could have a husband and wife work there and make $40 an hour household income! That is $1600 a WEEK! A WEEEEEK! Who can't live off that?! But I think what auto workers make (I haven't a clue about Delphi) a lot more than that an hour I think.
Who can't work for $15 an hour?
Is it because the area that you live that it can't be done? Where you live, does a $100,000 midwest-value home and lot cost you like $600,000 where you live? That is silly. The reason that it does is because they (the market) knows you make like $50 an hour, or whatever. So the market demands your money.
Everybody loses when that happens because we are competing with the world, folks. China, et al.
So why not bring everything down. Bring wages down AND costs will come down too. That way your actual standard will remain about the same, only the costs will be lower and we will be better equipped to compete with some of these foreign markets on a more level playing field.
Am I off in left field somehow, or am I right?
Now, this may be somewhat off the beaten path, but can you tell me WHO is making all the money in China so that they are building these ulrtra modern cities over there on massive scales, if their standard of living is so beneath us...that the workers are paid these low wages? SOMEbody over there is getting the money to raise the standards high for at least those beautiful cities. Does someone here understand all this?
