Skimming through this thread I see a lot of consistent complaints and arguments.
All of them having some truth
The reason unions are dead and dying.....people are falling further and further into poverty.....pensions are done......everything is going to **** and most people feel like they are drowning is due to one very simple concept.
Workers no longer have any leverage over their employers. None at all. Not one iota.
TOO MANY ****ING PEOPLE FIGHTING AND COMPETING FOR TOO FEW OF JOBS
A FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM THAT IS BOTH MORALLY AND ETHICALLY BANKRUPT
I'm not getting into the second concept...because most of you are too dumb to grasp the first one.
So let me make this real simple:
when you have ten new jobs and one eligible worker to fill the position....salaries have to go up. you have to incentivize and actually encourage people to work for you. you have to fight for that worker.
when you have ten people fighting for one job. one **** job. the complete opposite of that is going to happen. you are going to get stepped on like a bug. treated as if you are expendable. a piece of trash doing **** work at a **** wage.
remember the golden era of the 90's when signing bonuses actually existed?
we never thought that the unemployment rate could get so low?
What do we have today? The exact ****ing opposite of that.
Despite bogus unemployment rate statistics saying everything is great......we also have record people on disability and collecting food stamps.
We have an economy where millions recently lost their jobs in a recession (caused by a **** monetary system and the bubbles of central banks)
But despite so many unemployed we open the flood gates of labor to other countries.
Make it so you have to compete against third world labor to find a job (via insourcing or outsourcing)
Obama offers amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants, defies GOP
we give millions of illegal immigrants amnesty??
We give out record new visa applications to virtually all industries
We are constantly being told these people will do jobs that most Americans will not?
despite so many people not being able to find a job? record new decline and levels of American worker participation rates?
Huh.....what gives?
Why do people need a living wage if nobody needs to work?
If over 1/3 of our core aged work force no longer need to find work.....WTF is wrong?
Why do we need better salaries if this is honestly the case. If we can choose to be so picky. You can now see where politicians spew the **** that we need foreign labor to fill our own labor inadequacies and void.
How H-1B Visas Are Screwing Tech Workers
Laid-off IT workers muzzled as H-1B debate heats up
We have a President and numerous alphabet Agencies hellbent on telling us they can't find enough "qualified" applicants and engineers willing to work for third world wages.......it isn't this retards fault. It has been this way and only getting worse since long before Nixon.
Engineer's Wife 'Ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jBb70Dc3Ug
this is what industry tells you
Obama boost for H1-B spouses & students
- President***8217;s initiative set to ease curbs on right to work and extend post-studies window
But hey.....wage suppression isn't real
We can fix this by giving everyone the same wage if this keeps up
That will solve everything.
Greeter at Wal-Mart and your Doctor should be earning the same amount IMO
That will fix all of this.......nothing to see here folks
lets band-aid real issues.