2007-10-06 13:57:05 · 23 answers · asked by eldude 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well Boomer, with 20 million people here illegally competing for work, I may not have a choice! That is one good reason for immigration enforcement, imho. Who cares about me though, I have to compete for these jobs and I am the one making half what I could have made 10 years ago for the same job. Thank you for keeping the market fair by enforcing laws.
2007-10-06 14:05:41 · update #1
Yes you did. Now with two part-time jobs, you don't have to pay healthcare, saving you more money.
It is the choice of the worker to take these jobs. They are not victims. There is plenty of work to find.
In a competitive world, which we have, if the employer cannot find satisfactory employees, then the employer can also raise the wage, or combine the jobs. If he doesn't, the position remains vacant or his competitors will hire the abilities of those prospective employees.
2007-10-06 18:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Em E 4 · 5⤊ 5⤋
It depends - do the 2 people do the same thing that the 1 person did? Where is the labor market that inelastic?
And no, that's not what's going on.
Actually what's going on is the opposite - we're eliminating low-skill factory- floor jobs and creating higher-skill, and higher-paying, white-collar jobs (which is why the pay difference for college-educated versus non-college-educated workers is growing).
The "problem" is not that the blue collar folks who lose their jobs have to work at Wendy's because those are the only jobs being created - the "problem" is that some of them work at Wendy's because they're not qualified to work the jobs that are being created, in healthcare and technology.
But again this goes back to, do you have a right to perform a repetitive task and stay in your hometown and make enough to support a family?
You could do that in the 1950s and 1960s only because in the 1930s and 1940s all the other industrial powers were bombed to the ground. That could not last.
The decline in that sector has been happening since the early 1970s.
Free trade and tax cuts aren't what's causing those jobs to go overseas.
They're just what's causing new, higher-skill-level jobs to be created here.
But you actually have to retrain, and often relocate, for those jobs.
Sorry folks, the bathroom humor about "trickle down on folks" is funny to some but there is no shortage of data on this and it just doesn't support you.
The "shrinking middle class" just means more people are moving up out of the middle class than are moving up into it.
2007-10-06 14:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
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2016-05-17 22:05:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you did was to create 2 low paying jobs that don't pay a living wage, but will help 2 poor people scrounge around a little longer until a real paying job comes along.
Then, bye bye to your cheap business.
The fact is that the better you treat your employees the more faithful employees you will keep.
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2007-10-06 14:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Brotherhood 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yes, however you just created an expense for yourself in the way of having to pay for another person's health care and such. The more people you hire, the more expenses you have.
2007-10-06 14:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by The Cult of Personality 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
According to your theory, why not pay one dollar an hour then you create 14 more jobs?!
The point is "will people accept that 1/2 pay job?!"
2007-10-06 14:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by Boomer 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, but are you going with the most profitable option. Now you have two people to provide benefits for and you have to pay Workman's comp and tax taxes on both. So you may in fact be shooting yourself (the company) in the foot.
2007-10-06 14:04:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
You feel so good about it you should take one of these jobs. You probably won't pay insurance, or retirement. Those that compete this way do so because they can't compete paying fair wages.
2007-10-06 14:03:40 · answer #8 · answered by gwf2 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Yes you created another job.
It does suck that we are seeing most of the middle class shrinking. Both sides of the isle are not doing anything about it either. Until we start looking to protect the jobs we will see more jobs going away.
2007-10-06 14:04:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
sure, and instead of paying 1 person 7.50 an hour, which equates to 60.00 a day, communists pay 120 people .50 cents a day, and just created 119 jobs.
why complain about communists, when they think exactly like you?
2007-10-06 14:45:11 · answer #10 · answered by Boss H 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋