Wednesday, April 27, 2011
We Should Not Be Able to Make a Living Wage.
I was going through some of the comments, by Danny, pertaining to unions. One of his comments really jumped out and I wanted to respond. He stated that auto workers made, with benefits, 70 to 80 dollars an hour. An independent study, done at the time when the government intervened, showed the actual cost were closer to 40 dollars an hour. Danny was emphatic in his response that the COSTS WERE PASSED ON TO US, THE CONSUMER. He is right and I will not argue the point, I never did, that consumers do pay the labor costs in all products produced. Two realities as it relates to this. One, why do you think the companies have moved their production facilities out of the United States, to cut costs. The American workers were not willing or able to live in our economy with the wages of a few dollars a day. So the corporations, did the patriotic thing and shipped jobs overseas and even took tax breaks while they did this. I am sure if we were willing to live way under the poverty level and live in cardboard boxes on the road side, those jobs would still be here, but at what cost to the average worker. The second point, is while these same CEO's shipped jobs out did they take pay cuts to make products cheaper and increase the profits for their company? The big one now, who pays the multi million dollar salaries for the management team? COSTS ARE PASSED ON TO THE CONSUMER. You are concerned with the cost increase caused by the average worker, just trying to live and with dignity, but are unconcerned by the cost that is passed on by the management, that is trying to maintain several houses. The other part of this equation is they get their money whether the company performs or not. Their contract is not contingent on performance, but if profits are down they lay off the line workers or close down plants. This is what you are fighting for? I choose to fight for the average person. Join me. Come over, to what you would call, the dark side.
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John,
ReplyDeleteI do not fight for anyone.(in response to "this is what you fight for") My comments are meant to give a perspective I find is lost in America. You will continue to talk about evil corporations and how grandma will die in the street if we don't have social security, and the other side will talk about abortion, and the ten commandments in city hall... And I will sit and watch both the Republican and Democrat parties take us down the tubes with excessive spending and unending War.
I have said this once before and I think you could find some comfort in it. I am fighting a losing battle of individuality, against collectivism. We will have single payer health care soon, we will have the government more involved in regulating our markets through a elastic monetary policy, we will have more government oversight of the labor pool, we will have more government in our energy, trash, and bedrooms. Everything will be watched an weighed, and everyone will strive for "Fairness".
Now I believe this to be impossible to sustain... but its ok because it wont stop their. When the dollar crashes, and the American economy falls below the radar we will beg for a savior... we will beg for our air conditioning, internet, fast food, and big yellow school buses. It will then be consolidated on a global level. They will save it all with a world currency, through the already created IMF or some other entity. Corporations will only become bigger, ans Unions will have more control than ever. And the thing that is for certain is, that you will no longer have a right to yourself. We started giving it away long ago... and now if you want to work and eat and purchase goods, a home, a car, a light bulb... you will do it under their terms and at their price. We already have this on a minor scale.
I fight for maximum freedom and personal responsibility. Both have been shredded in our modern system.