Posted on 04/17/2007 5:48:48 PM PDT by A. Pole
Don’t want people to think?
You mean like in multi-cultural studies class?
Or in Climatology class?
what’s wrong with entry level, some college, no degree, starting at $40,000 or $70,000? What’s wrong with no degree but some experience at six figures?
I mean in all avenues of life, even everyday routines, not just propaganda. Money is often involved, as anyone can imagine. For example, how many people notice that the items and services they buy are taxed many times over - years ago at least some recognition existed that taxing taxes was bad form.
In my suburb, the demand from foreigners drove up the prices of those middle class houses. The citizens who sold to the foreigners double or tripled their money in 5 years. (I’m greedy and holding out for an even bigger profit.)
To avoid taxes, those citizen seller then bought upper middle class houses. That increased demand drove up their prices and those sellers bought luxury houses. Trickle up was working.
Then the anti (illegal) immigrant rhetoric started creating uncertainty in the market. Markets don’t like uncertainty. Demand from foreigners evaporated. Prices fell. Those middle class homeowners were no longer able to sell their house and move up to the upper middle class house. The trickle up was killed by anti-free-market rhetoric.
I’m confident that such anti-free-market fears have peaked and will decline. The demand from foreigners will soon drive up prices again.
Only in part and I’d venture a small part.
capitalism (and even other economic theories)
Supply and demand. If you artificially restrict the supply of workers wages do not go up. Companies become inefficient and go out of business.
If you artificially restrict demand, unintended consequences also happen.
Affirmative Action is one example of artificially controlling supply and demand for labor. The result is not higher or lower wages. It is no jobs. Hiring people, not based on their ability, but based on the demographic group they belong to, is Affirmative Action. Restricting employment to the demographic group called citizens is Affirmative Action. People should not be hired because they are citizens. They should be hired because they are qualified. That way the company can be profitable and not lose out to the competition.
She needs to learn how to market herself.
My employer was having a dificult time finding good people at $12/hr and had to raise the starting wage to $14 about a year ago.
Is that good or bad?
REALITY
I mean in all avenues of life, even everyday routines, not just propaganda.
I agree. Advertisers don’t want anyone to question their hype or think logically about it. The same with the weather and sports reporters and not just the news/political reporters. They say it will be partly cloudy and not partly sunny and don’t want anyone to argue with them.
I am curious, do you think that it is good when workers have to be paid more?
Thanks. Tough paradigm.
Secure the borders, while giving ourselves more of the Tired, Poor Huddled Masses Yearning To Breathe Free and identify as United States American.
We can handle it. We already are, except the Public Sector (us) is straining as supply and demand works its invisible hand.
Speak English and have something to offer without a felonious record and I’d be glad to be your neighbor (for the most part).
Absolutely! But 40,000,000 high paying jobs outsourced in the coming years! Thats about 1/3 the entire work force!
You gotta admit if that were to happen, that would take a huge hunk of the pie right out of the country.
It just stinks that it seems that are so many kids out there who have no ambition and no drive to want to be successful and put the time in for the complex jobs. I guess that is why so many live at home with their parents well into their 20’s and even 30’s.
Nothing at all. If an entry level worker can find employment at those salaries, more power to him. Of course they are somewhat higher than average unless you happen to live in Manhatten or the job includes running convoys through Baghdad.
Private Freepmail coming.
Private Freepmail coming.
I'm actually looking for a job ideally in the West Loop or Oak Park/Forest Park area, and I could tell you quickly enough whether the salary is competitive. I lived in the West Loop for almost five years, and basically know all that needs to be known about it.
I tell anyone currently in high school.
For the first 20 years, your parents take care of you.
For the next 20 years, some company will take care of you.
After that, you are on your own, or you had better be at C-Level in your company. You need to start thinking about having your own business to make a living off of while you are still in your 20s, so you can be ready by the time you’re 40.
We are long out of room. Enough with immigration of all kinds.
Respectfully disagree. We're a mongrel, Constitutional nation with an undercurrent white-blood-cell English Common Law tradition. We have adapted to and accommodated immigrants in the past, and, if we can pare down the Public Sector weeds that choke our ideals, our Shining City on the Hill will flourish with the creativity, business, and ideals of the "wretched refuse" who will dare to expatriate and identify as "Hell Yes" Americans.
To become parochial at this point, what with the world's rising economic tide (courtesy mostly of Uncle Sam), regardless of political correctness, is self-immolating, IMHO.
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