"Josh Hill"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:13:10 -0500, "Carl"

> wrote:
>
> >

> >
> >But they are NOT a tiny percentage of the workforce that works at
> >minimum wage.
>
> Perhaps, but I wasn't talking about people who work at minimum wage.
> You were the one who brought that up. I was talking about people who
> earn poverty-level wages, like employees at Wal-Mart.

The minumum wage, being less than what Wal Mart pays, seems to fit your
definition of "poverty level wages".


>
> >> Most of them
> >> aren't high school students, who wouldn't even be available during
> >> business hours. These are precisely the conditions that unions would
> >> help to redress; this source, for example, says that the average union
> >> wage is 28% higher than the average non-union wage:
> >>
> >>
http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/index.php?page=Union+vs.+Nonunion%3A+Wages+(2004)
> >>
> >> -- and benefits such as health care and pensions would increase that
> >> differential.
> >
> >Yeah, and 30% of the cost of sa U.S. made car is in auto worker health
> >benefits.
>
> >See what that did to the US auto industry.
>
> Right. And for that you can thank the Republicans for blocking the
> universal health care that every other industrialized nation has. Our
> insane health care costs are one of the reasons American factories
> can't compete.

Would you trust GWB and the Republicans to run your health care?
:-)

>
> > How about the US electronics
> >industry?
>
> >Make everyone pay more and more for everything and people will buy
> >less and less of it.  You'll have wonderfully paid employees for a short
> >time,
> >until they get laid off.
> >
> >Great business model.
>
> For which you can thank the Republicans and their support for
> unbridled globalization. American factory worker earning $20 an hour
> competes with Chinese factory worker earning 15 cents an hour. Result:
> American factory closes. Great business model.
>

So what would you like? Embargo? Tariffs?

Dennis


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