No one has a "natural right" to some arbitrary hourly wage. If you don;t make enough at $10/hr, get another job (a 2d job). Everyone I know who makes more substantial wages also works a helluva lot more than 40 hours a week.
It has been stated that WalMart or other companies took higher paying jobs and split them into lower paying jobs. Is there any basis for that statement? I've known many small business owners over the years, and aside from the owners, and the high-level employees, they paid pretty normal wages.
The only small businesses that pretty much universally pay good wages and provide benefits in my experience have been healthcare providers.
BTW, do we really want a permanent structural unemployment rate on par with Europe, anyway?
Anyone looking for work should consider going into nursing, lol, always a shortage. As an aside, we were talking last night, and my wife said she realized that a bunch of the techs and nurses she operates with are eastern european DOCTORS. No kidding, she was scrubbed in and her anesthesiologist was talking in Russian (he was a linguist in the US Army before med school) with the tech and the nurse—both of whom were physicians in their home countries (she said all of a sudden she realized they were all talking and she didn't understand them—they switched to German as a joke, but my wife is fluent, so much of the rest of the case was in German, lol).
Last edited by tater; 04-09-10 at 10:45 AM.
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