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How long can they sucker the misinformed about wages?
Unions aren't overpaid. NON-union workers are underpaid!!!
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How long can they sucker the misinformed about wages? (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Feb 2014
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father founding
(619 posts)1. Certain Employees Overpaid - CEO
The only overpaid employees are the CEO's
raven mad
(4,940 posts)2. As long as they own
all the businesses that pay anything for anyone.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Especially these businesses ...
progressoid
(49,992 posts)3. Yup.
I've had to explain that to "Democrats".
Laelth
(32,017 posts)4. Most Americans are under-paid.
For many years now, studies have shown that American workers are the most productive in the world. Because we work very hard in the United States, its hard to stomach ... complaints about dependency and laziness. Many Americans with jobs still have to rely upon government assistance in order to survive. Wal-Mart, Americas largest employer, pays its associates so little that most of them qualify for government aid. In this way, taxpayers subsidize both Wal-Marts low wages and its obscene corporate profits.
Elizabeth Warren, a former economics professor who is currently serving in the United States Senate, has shown that the 1962 minimum wage, if it were adjusted for both inflation and increases in productivity, would currently be about $22.00/hr. ($44,000/year.). No wonder American families could survive on just one income in 1962. Our world is very different now. I know a couple of college-educated people with government jobs who are making $18,000/yearless than half what a burger-flipper would have made in 1962.
While the stock market is recording new highs, American wages are approaching record lows. Our Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. is both embarrassing and exploitative. In France, the minimum wage is the equivalent of $13.00/hr. In Australia, its $15.00/hr. Naturally, our business leaders insist that calamity will befall us if we raise the minimum wage. Nonsense! Australia seems to be doing just fine with a minimum wage thats over double ours, and our economy was thriving in 1962 when the minimum wage was the equivalent of $22.00/hr. Why cant we return to those economic glory days?
The answer is simple. Greed is keeping far too many Americans impoverished. Increase the minimum wage.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024179873
Elizabeth Warren, a former economics professor who is currently serving in the United States Senate, has shown that the 1962 minimum wage, if it were adjusted for both inflation and increases in productivity, would currently be about $22.00/hr. ($44,000/year.). No wonder American families could survive on just one income in 1962. Our world is very different now. I know a couple of college-educated people with government jobs who are making $18,000/yearless than half what a burger-flipper would have made in 1962.
While the stock market is recording new highs, American wages are approaching record lows. Our Federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr. is both embarrassing and exploitative. In France, the minimum wage is the equivalent of $13.00/hr. In Australia, its $15.00/hr. Naturally, our business leaders insist that calamity will befall us if we raise the minimum wage. Nonsense! Australia seems to be doing just fine with a minimum wage thats over double ours, and our economy was thriving in 1962 when the minimum wage was the equivalent of $22.00/hr. Why cant we return to those economic glory days?
The answer is simple. Greed is keeping far too many Americans impoverished. Increase the minimum wage.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024179873
-Laelth