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To: 1-Eagle
“A school teacher called in to complain that 40k was not enough money because the median income is 80k in her area.”

So what does this person recommend? If you arbitrarily increase the salary of everyone making less than the median income of 80K, the median income will consequently rise. Do you then raise the salary of everyone making less than the new median? Where does it stop?

9 posted on 08/10/2010 3:43:19 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

In Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average - at least according to the town’s press agent.


10 posted on 08/10/2010 5:08:04 AM PDT by Pecos
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
“A school teacher called in to complain that 40k was not enough money because the median income is 80k in her area.”

So what does this person recommend? If you arbitrarily increase the salary of everyone making less than the median income of 80K, the median income will consequently rise. Do you then raise the salary of everyone making less than the new median? Where does it stop?

You know something? Sorry to change the subject, but this is also an interesting point when applied to another subject: the Minimum Wage. Didn't you just explain why they have to keep raising it? And therefore haven't you made the case that raising it is futile?

A Free Market Economy always adjusts because there is a certain demand for qualified labor in all positions. When the wages for those who flip hamburgers matches or exceeds those who are doing other labor, a chain reaction takes place which goes from bottom to top... over a period of several years, fortunately for Socialist Democrats this usually happens in time for an election cycle, everyone has had a pay increase to restore the balance to the Free Market labor pool, and once again we hear that the minimum wage must be raised yet again.

But to answer your question, what this means is that Marxist ideology has crept into our society to the point that many people who, ironically, probably consider themselves patriotic find no problem with living off the tax payers and demanding high wages.

19 posted on 08/11/2010 1:52:44 PM PDT by 1-Eagle ( We have a Republic...... "If you can keep it." Fight Communism wherever it raises its hoary head.)
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