Thursday, December 12, 2013

The minimum wage and Wal Mart, McDonalds, et al

All these folks ranting about how McD's,  WM, etc should pay a "living wage" really get on my last good nerve.
First of all, MOST of these jobs are SUPPOSED to be for students, maybe a senior citizen looking for something to do during the day or someone wanting some extra income above their real, full time job. NOT for anyone that has attempted to be a full time good citizen. Meaning; I can see someone that maybe made mistakes taking a job at a WM or wherever in the process of getting heir life back on track. Instead, our politicians have hamstrung the major industries of this country with all sorts of regulations and rules and paperwork and liability and on and on and on. As one example; China the EPA and smog.


Has the EPA really made the earth a safer, cleaner place by forcing so many companies to relocate outside this country where they are obviously much more inclined to pollute. I'm not suggesting to allow companies to dump whatever they want on the ground. But these companies would run cleaner here in the US while employing our neighbors at decent wages. (yes I realize there are lots of companies that are Chinese/Mexican/Wherever-stan owned that wouldn't move but some would and I believe that would be better.)
Secondly, is the economics education in this country really that bad? If raising these peoples wage is the answer to poverty then why not raise everyone's wage to $100k a year?
  BAM! END OF POVERTY! Congratulations, EVERYONE is now upper middle class! My Nobel prizes in Economics and Peace can be sent to; 123 Utopia Ln Unicornville, LaLa Land.

These jobs, once populated by students mostly, are unable to support a family! In any economic model If McD's is forced to raise its pay, they will raise the price of their food!
How about, people quit voting for idiots and socialists? Redevelop this countries manufacturing base and get students back in these jobs.
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  1. Harry FlashmanDecember 24, 2013 at 9:28 PM

    I wonder if we can ever compete again in manufacturing. Even our minimum wage as it is now is so much higher than say in Mexico or Guatemala. Then too, we have labor unions that inflate the cost of production, whereas such things don't exist in the third world. I think the bottom line is we have too many people for too few jobs, and it will keep on getting worse.

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    1. SCextremistDecember 30, 2013 at 11:11 AM

      Thank you for the comment. I had started the blog and have gotten wishy washy about posting.
      I hate the idea of JUST bashing the govt all the time. I do not want to be one of the blogs with the T&A, nothing against T&A, just rather not post that.
      And mostly, there are so many of you guys that are so much better at it than I am, content wise; Carteach0, you, Western Shooter, FreeNC, just to name a few.
      But thanks for the visit, just the same.

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