From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 17:13:11 MDT
Thoughts, why, yes.
It's NOT a "living" wage by ANY stretch of the definition.
The "American Dream" and U.S. style capitalism is fucking broken when compared with northern European style
socialism/capitalism.
As a pharmacist whose numbers are in short supply and who can't complain about the wage aspect of my job, I really can't get too
worked up about it.
However, for anyone actually making any where near the sub-standard minimum, some pro-labor, pro-union, leg-breaking,
ball-busting tactics should be employed against the NAFTA-luvin, republican, ass-wipe mother fuckers that put you in that dismal
statistic.
Call an overpaid CEO that moved his company to Malaysia from a phone booth tonight and threaten his and his family's life.
Otherwise, don't complain. Big labor and violence is the only thing that's gonna help ya in the U.S.A. these days. It's the only
thing that worked in the past.
And by the way, here's a refresher course on economic globalization:
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Chemistry I
Two large glass beakers, with a tube running between them at the bottom and a flow valve in the tube.
One beaker has sodium chloride in water, say 30% (saturation at 20 celsius is 36%)
The other beaker has, say 5% sodium chloride in water.
Any idea what happens when you open the valve?
Money Supply = Sodium Chloride
Walter
Mermaid wrote:
> Gleaned from a friend's online blog thingy
> <snip>
> Sixty-five years ago on this day in 1938, the Federal Minimum Wage went into effect—at .25˘ an hour. Now it's $5.15 an hour.
>
> After adjusting for inflation, that's 21% lower than in 1979.
>
> [...]
>
> Thoughts?
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