Posted on 02/17/2009 5:12:29 PM PST by BfloGuy
The U. S. by far remains the world’s leading manufacturer by value of goods produced. It hit a record $1.6 trillion in 2007 — nearly double the $811 billion in 1987. For every $1 of value produced in China’s factories, America generates $2.50.
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Do you provide decent pay and benefits to your employees?
Steel wire drawing NAICS: 331222
If you will go back and forth through this web site I am sure you will find all the current lists you can stand for a while...
Funny you don’t seem to mind the Wall Street banks sucking much larger amounts of money down the er hole.
If by trade laws you mean wasteful government mandated minimum wage laws and OSHA Regs and Mandatory Sick Leave and EPA regs etc. yeah then you are right. But instead of repealing such madness you want the Government to right more legislation to try and combat the idiocy they already put in place.
Imagine yourself in a very deep hole and the government offers you a larger shovel and tells you to dig harder. This is the argument you are making, this is why most of us laugh at your proposals. You have not yet learned that Government intervention in the markets has got us where we are.
We've been there...
We've done that...
We've bought the T-shirt...
and we are still in the damn hole!
We don't have employees, we contract all labor out being that the government has placed too many bullshit regs on having employees now.
We have a waiting list of people who want to contract with us to do our work.
Sorry but again you have proven yourself wrong, I 've said many times that enough is enough with the freaking bailout BS. ANd I don't give damn what company it is.
Of course we must fix minimum wage (sarcasm) then small business owners and others could really pay crap wages...perhaps we could even get down to ‘will work for food territory’...Sorry I will not join your rush to the bottom. what made this country a great country was a middle class, policies such as yours will destroy the middle class and this country and that’s no laughing matter.
Well, how am I supposed to know what you said before?...you didn’t say it on this thread.
You made my point, you contract labor out...enough said. I have long believed after watching small business in many different states that this was not going to help this country prosper-not very good jobs and few benefits.
Of course they are...with all their subsidies and direct money from Japan, they will be just fine-no worries.
You show your lack of Economic knowledge when you endeavor to uphold minimum wage laws.
If Minimum wage laws solve economic problems why them set them so low? Why not a minimum wage of 35 bucks an hour? That way everyone could afford health care and expensive cars.
Why should we insist on keeping low skill low wage jobs here, in place of high skill high wage jobs?
I don’t consider it good economics to lower or eliminate minimum wage...what do you care anyway? You have no employees.
And you show us all what the problem is with the Union Mindset.
You believe it is the employers job to supply your every need be it health care or Dental care or daycare or whatever other liberal wet-dream comes down the pike.
Like I said we have a waiting list of Contractors who want to work for us. Because we pay well and fast and have lots of work. If we paid badly we wouldn't have a waiting list. BTW our company isn't asking for a damn bailout. Our guys will be working tomorrow and our customers will be happy.
Can you say the same for your loser G- hog-trough- munching company?
They are cutting jobs left and right and are doing away with entire car lines. But you are telling me my company is doing It wrong. Lets be clear here, you are full of it!
Because minimum wage laws are just as stupid as Salary Caps, the Government has not a freaking clue and wants to muddy the waters in the free market.
This is why you idiots keep wanting more and more intervention by the Government, because the water stays muddy!
LOL. Well, nuts. I’m sorry. I was actually taking you seriously there for a bit. My bad.
If the minimum wage is such a great idea, make it six figures. Why stop at five, ten, or fifty bucks an hour? Make everybody a millionaire while you’re at it. Just think how great that would be.
Hahaha.
Hey Ramius ever notice you can never get a straight answer when you ask a Union Weenie about setting the minimum wage up to union wage levels and why it wouldn't make everyone rich?
I wonder why?
We aren’t keeping either type of job...given the move of high tech to places like India...I have a friend who works for EDS...bought out by HP...they are cutting 25,000 jobs-15,000 in the US...I also saw Sprint replace an entire floor of Americans with H1B visa workers. All my credit cards have service centers in India...or other places-not in the US. Banker jobs are being exported and Citi has H1B visa workers in the US...during a time of record unemployment... there are few safe jobs these days. How about IBM basically moving to India. Globalism is bad for this country period.
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