Minimum wage not a local issue
It mystifies me that the minimum wage mob would commit the most minute of nanny state minions to address local pay rates. The problem arises in defining the terms of their grievance, which is not a local problem but a moral problem at a higher level.
While we can all agree that an hour is composed of 60 minutes, the capricious value of a dollar confounds us. Is the dollar tied to the Big Mac, hydrocarbons or precious metals?
It surprises me that the religious representatives of the mob rant locally instead of toward the nannies that undermine their previous wages by debasing their currency. This is a violation of scientific law and religious codes — "you shall not practice injustice in your courts, in measurements or in quantities ... you shall use honest scales, honest weights, an honest bushel and an honest gallon" (Leviticus 19:35-36).
The mendicants in the priestly and government class keep the herd suspicious of each other, causing enough distraction that only the symptoms of the disorder are debated.
It would be more prudent if the wage mob would direct its intentions at the coin clippers in Congress instead of the local cheese distributors, whose fecklessness is a matter of record.
Chuck Atkinson
Greensboro
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.. yea, Chuck, but there is better divide and conquer milage in wage mob mentality ... assume, generalize, soapbox proselytize.
Posted on February 29, 2008 6:17 AM
As one that been around unions all my life, I can tell you that employers have a set amount they will ,pay to get a job done. Then they cut people and still get the job done. All the people that support minimum wage hikes should read the book, Scratch Beginnings.
Posted on February 29, 2008 6:23 AM
Minimum wage increase to $9+ and hour will be good for business as it will force them to cut back on employees to maintain the same of the bottom line.
The incompetence that now engulfs the minimum wage worker pool will actually become the criteria used to selectively fire them while retaining the best and brightest ones who can pick up the slack and keep things humming.
When the wage law is repealed, business's will have already adjusted, trimmed the fat and profits will soar. If the law stays in place we can all expect better service for our dollar by eager workers who realize job performance is an issue.
Posted on February 29, 2008 7:30 AM
Chuck Atkinson
That was some of the best articulated writing I've read within these blogs in . . . forever.
Cheers!
Posted on February 29, 2008 8:33 AM
Mr. Atkinson's post reminds me of a comedy skit that used to be on In Living Color. There was a prisoner who would masticate on the erudition of the proletarians whose avuncular algorithm expounded on the extrapolation of nanoseconds.
Posted on February 29, 2008 9:09 AM
"Minimum wage increase to $9+ and hour will be good for business as it will force them to cut back on employees to maintain the same of the bottom line."
How will this improve service? If $9.00 per hour is the new minimum wage the only thing that will happen is fewer workers will be be hired. Plenty more may be let go. If you hadn't noticed it's hard enough to find a job as it is. There would be a lot of businesses that would tank if the minimum wage were that high as well. Don't we have enough jobs going overseas? What happens when the best and the brightest burn-out because they've got so much more to do? Sure, raise the minimum price of labor to $9.00 per hour. Then the value of the dollar can plummet even further than it has already. When everybody has something it's not worth as much.
Minimum wage is an artificial price floor in our jobs economy, which also contributes to inflation. Isn't inflation bad enough? When minimum wage gets raised other folks tend to want a raise as well. Businesses wind up paying out even more, and therefore products cost more. While it may sound good to raise the minimum wage, it is actually very destructive in our new "global" economy.
Posted on February 29, 2008 9:57 AM