Is "what will the government do to help stave off the loss of 'good' manufacturing jobs" really a tough question? It's what his audience wants to hear. That seems to me to be the easy question.
A tough question might be: why, in an economy that constantly provides you as a consumer with new and better products and services, and why, in a country that gives you, for free, an education through the 12th grade - i.e., calculus, physics, trig, a foreign language - do some people think they're entitled to receive a salary high enough to feed a family of four for spending seven hours a day on an assembly line performing a repetitive, menial task that anyone with a 2nd grade education could perform?
2007-08-09 03:42:49 · 6 answers · asked by truthisback 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
But stiggo the sixty million dollar question is - who decides what is "appropriate" - the market or stiggo?
2007-08-09 03:53:53 · update #1
Given - uh, unemployment is 4.6% - - - - not exactly a problem.
2007-08-09 03:54:28 · update #2
And WHAT "war on the middle class" - the middle class is smaller in proportion to the whole only because there's been an exodus UPWARD.
2007-08-09 03:55:01 · update #3
Who else - if that were true, we'd all be making minimum. Ultimately it is the consumers who decide the wages.
2007-08-09 03:55:45 · update #4
Josh you are an idiot, "working is working" - no, people are paid differently because they add different levels of value. What I did in high school, which some of my classmates chose to continue to do for a career, isn't 1/10th as difficult as what I do now, which is why I'm paid a lot more now than I was summers in high school.
2007-08-10 08:00:53 · update #5
But I can't explain that to them. It's like the children's book "fish is fish" - a frog trying to explain to a fish what life is like on land. Fish is fish - work is work - same idea.
2007-08-10 08:01:39 · update #6
I recommend his book highly, he asks many tough questions and provides some great insight with unique answers.
2007-08-09 03:46:19 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lou only asks tough questions about things that will never change, insuring that he appears to be the underdog perpetually.
As long as those questions are about the "war on the middle class", some border patrol agents who got arrested and jailed for breaking the law, or the outsourcing of American jobs to cheaper foreign markets, you bet Lou will keep asking those tough questions.
A tougher question might be, since you appear to be a conservative, why in an economy that is so rich and flush with cash, can we not afford to pay our workers better regardless of the jobs they are doing?
No, what you want to do is what all capitalist scum want to do: keep all of the money that is made on the backs of the poor for yourself. You are a joke. Working is working, and I don't care if it's a captain of industry or a migrant worker picking cabbage in a farm field.
If the salary you are willing to pay, regardless of the "difficulty" of the job, isn't good enough to actually pay a living wage to someone that works for you, then you don't deserve to have anyone working for you.
2007-08-09 03:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by joshcrime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lou knows! You do not see any other journalist, anchor, reporter, network or newspaper in mainstream media taking on these issues. We still have assembly lines and manufacturing jobs in this country? What new & better products? Everything is coming from China because of stupid trade agreements, and nothing is safe! Food recalls, Household goods recalled, Children's toy recalled, Automotive tires and parts recalls. Soon your house will be imported from China and dropped on American soil owned by the Chinese. A college degree is no longer a ticket to a successfully life. Our education system is in turmoil, bi-lingual and over sized classrooms, curriculum cuts, every child left behind..
You must work for FOX noise or Sicko Bill'o or Ding Dong Limbaugh.
2007-08-09 04:17:26 · answer #3 · answered by jmf931 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If performing that job is something which will provide your employer with a product they can sell for a profit, then certainly you should be appropriately compensated for your part in said production. It hardly matters what level of education you so condescendingly claim is needed to do the task, all that matters is what the result of the task is. That's basic economics.
And asking a question that your audience wants to hear can still be a tough question if it is one which the person answering it doesn't want to answer.
2007-08-09 03:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound like a shill for some robber baron or sweatshop operator. No one is "entitled" to a good-paying job - companies invariably try to exploit working people, and organized labor, using strikes and other legal tools, forces them to pay a living wage. Maybe you slept through the 20th century...
2007-08-09 03:52:55 · answer #5 · answered by Who Else? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. Just ship them menial jobs off to China. That way we'll have more unemployment and welfare to pay for with our tax dollars? Right?
2007-08-09 03:50:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋