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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 09:15 AM Mar 2013

American Workers Must Accept The Idea Of Working For Global Level Wages

I have posted a number of times that American CEO's, the GOP, conservatives, US Chamber of Commerce and American business is telling American workers and that includes everyone on DU that the NEW ORDER is that American workers must accept wage parity with the rest of the world in order to compete in the "global economy".

Wage parity and benefit parity is what the Reagan revolution is all about. And everything the GOP pushing and pushing the Democrats toward is 'WAGE PARITY. Yes they are delivering WAGE PARITY for the American worker. Why do you think they are against minimum wage and regulations that govern labor standards in this country.

American workers are being told that American workers paychecks are too fat in comparison to workers in China, India and other third world countries. American workers must compete with "EMERGING MARKETS". Other countries do not have unions, pensions, safety nets, decent working conditions etc.

Yet I hear from Republicans I know that CEO's and the Walton family and billionaires EARN their money and are entitled to the money. I hear dumb asses defending them all the time.

Meanwhile we are talking about gay marriage, public employees earn too much, firefighters and police do not earn their pay. Either workers start fighting the business community over fairness and and "sharing the wealth" or they will be working for $5 a day.

The GOP wanted sequestration all along and used the debt ceiling to force it on the president. Had he not done something they would have blown up the economy. And they will do it again in July to get Medicare and Social Security.

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LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
1. The talk of "wage parity" doesn't take into account the cost of living in different areas
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 09:24 AM
Mar 2013

This is crazy talk from the 1%

Rent for a decent apartment in the DC area is at least $2000 a month, way more than an apartment might go for in small towns in the midwest. The cost of living in San Francisco, including food, transportation and housing, is considerably higher than the cost of living, say, in Bangladesh.

Even the federal government pays federal workers more in expensive areas through cost-of-living adjustments to salaries.

I am so sick and tired of seeing the rich and powerful try to turn everyone else on the planet into serfs.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. At least they are being honest
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 09:27 AM
Mar 2013

As far as pure capitalism, that is true. We need the wages of the others to come up.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
6. Do German, French, British or Japanese workers accept Third-world wages?
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 09:32 AM
Mar 2013

No, they do not.

Would you rather drive a Mercedes? Or a Tata?

pampango

(24,692 posts)
15. I have read that German manufacturing wages are 50% higher than in the US yet
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 12:15 PM
Mar 2013

their manufacturing sector is very healthy. They have much stronger unions and a better safety net than we do. If high wages and a strong safety net made workers uncompetitive with those in the Third World, Germany would be a basket case. It is not.

Workers and the middle class get a lot more support in those countries than in the US. (It would be hard to get any less than we do here.) I know that republicans don't want our workers and middle class to get more support but, unless we change that, things will not change.

 

datasuspect

(26,591 posts)
11. there's still plenty of non prison population that can be put to good use
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 10:49 AM
Mar 2013

come on 1%, stop dragging your feet!!

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
14. +100000 The Obama administration is aggressively growing private prisons,
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 11:12 AM
Mar 2013

and the use of prison slave labor by corporations is skyrocketing.

Obama's 2013 budget: One area of marked growth, the prison industrial complex
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002392306

Obama selects the owner of a private prison consulting firm as the new Director of the United States Marshals Service (USMS)
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/mars-d03.html

Private prison corporations move up on list of government contractors under Obama, receiving BILLIONS
http://www.nationofchange.org/president-obama-s-incarcernation-1335274655

Prison Labor Booms As Unemployment Remains High; Companies Reap Benefits
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272036.html



raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
16. And yet investors line up to help lay the foundations.
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 12:40 PM
Mar 2013

Acquiescence in the face of the brutal attacks on the environment and human rights seems to be the answer. No matter what the question is.

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