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pan6467 · 06-26-2006, 08:25 AM

The easiest way to avoid all this "if wages increase, we'll take our jobs overseas" (which btw hurts the disposable income needed to buy your product) is very simple and within Congress' means to do.

Pass a law that states if you are a company doing business in America, you will maintain the same working conditions, wages and income taxes.

If countries (i.e. China) don't like then they sell their goods elsewhere. If companies don't like it, then ask yourself why.

We have that power, and it would increase the wages and the standard of living everywhere, it would increase tax revenue, and best of all, selfishly speaking, it would keep jobs in the USA.

There comes a point when one has to ask why someone who works hard for 40 hours a week cannot afford to live a decent life.

That is what the GOP refuses to acknowledge. I see people I work with, I see even LadySage and myself with 2 incomes, barely making it. With house payments, food, gas, utilities, and so on..... our lifestyle and those of people I see who work at least 40 hour weeks are nowhere near our parents lifestyles.

Now forgive me, but isn't the great thing about our country the fact that each generation did better than the previous one? That we advanced and strove to do better?

So why all of a sudden do the GOP and these people who propagate how great life is here, want to keep wages down to the barest minimum, while CEO's make more and more every year?

The worker works just as hard as the CEO. The worker who works 40 hours a week deserves to live a comfortable life and be able to pay his/her bills, be able to have a disposable income that will buy products without having to use credit cards and go further into debt.

06-26-2006, 08:25 AM	#68 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	The easiest way to avoid all this "if wages increase, we'll take our jobs overseas" (which btw hurts the disposable income needed to buy your product) is very simple and within Congress' means to do. Pass a law that states if you are a company doing business in America, you will maintain the same working conditions, wages and income taxes. If countries (i.e. China) don't like then they sell their goods elsewhere. If companies don't like it, then ask yourself why. We have that power, and it would increase the wages and the standard of living everywhere, it would increase tax revenue, and best of all, selfishly speaking, it would keep jobs in the USA. There comes a point when one has to ask why someone who works hard for 40 hours a week cannot afford to live a decent life. That is what the GOP refuses to acknowledge. I see people I work with, I see even LadySage and myself with 2 incomes, barely making it. With house payments, food, gas, utilities, and so on..... our lifestyle and those of people I see who work at least 40 hour weeks are nowhere near our parents lifestyles. Now forgive me, but isn't the great thing about our country the fact that each generation did better than the previous one? That we advanced and strove to do better? So why all of a sudden do the GOP and these people who propagate how great life is here, want to keep wages down to the barest minimum, while CEO's make more and more every year? The worker works just as hard as the CEO. The worker who works 40 hours a week deserves to live a comfortable life and be able to pay his/her bills, be able to have a disposable income that will buy products without having to use credit cards and go further into debt. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"