[ArGee]

How much is minimum wage again?

That's that stupid law they wrote to reduce the number of starting jobs, reduce the number of businesses working in the U.S., and curry favor with the liberals.

Retrain the to do what? There are only a limited number of service related jobs that can be created

There are active sectors here in the U.S., with new ones being created on a regular basis as people think up new ideas.

You don't need a wide open field, you just need to be better than others.

No guarantees in a free system, but if you will work, you can work.

Shalom.

[looscnnn]

"That's that stupid law they wrote to reduce the number of starting jobs, reduce the number of businesses working in the U.S., and curry favor with the liberals."

I agree, but aren't companies required to pay that amount unless the job is waitress, bartender, etc. where there is the possiblility of tips?

"There are active sectors here in the U.S., with new ones being created on a regular basis as people think up new ideas."

Again, retrain to do what? Programing jobs are going to India, we have H1 & L1 visa workers coming into the country to fill "unfilled" IT jobs, we have illegals (that should not be here) working jobs that could go to unemployed to keep them off the dole, and so on. You can only train so many people to fill so many jobs.

Example, I have an MCSE, a certification in the IT field, that used to open many doors that paid well. Now there are so many people that are flooding the IT field with MCSEs that it had diluted its importance. A lot of people are now working jobs that do not have anything to do with an MCSE, let alone the IT field.

How about taking care of the citizens first, before offering jobs to foreigners. Is that so hard to do?