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pan6467 · 10-31-2006, 11:17 AM

I just want to know why it is so wrong to expect that men and women who work 40 hours a week make liveable wages and not have to go into debt, not have to have their intelligence or desires questioned.

If a person works 40 hours a week, they should be entitled to, have a right to and be able to make enough to live comfortably on and not have ANYONE question their integrity.

As for raising minimum wage.... here's a novel idea..... instead make it so that every time a CEO takes a raise (including ALL forms of compensation, stock options, bonuses, etc.), 110% is added to the worker.

So if a CEO makes a million one year and decides he needs a 100% raise and pays himself 2 million the next, the company's workers get 110% raise.

If there is a company that has say 1,000 employees and the CEO takes a $1 million raise and bonus and perks..... that those 1,000 workers each could have had a $10,000 a year raise? Imagine the dedication, loyalty and incentive you would create in your workforce if you said.... "I'll not take a raise this year, (or I'll drop my $11 mill salary to $10 Mill), and give it to the workers that produce the product the raise instead.

Let's see a CEO say that instead of why if minimum wage goes up, the prices of goods go up and he still takes a huge ass raise.

PS by giving the workers that raise also, increases the tax base thus takes some of the burden of the CEO.

10-31-2006, 11:17 AM	#93 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	I just want to know why it is so wrong to expect that men and women who work 40 hours a week make liveable wages and not have to go into debt, not have to have their intelligence or desires questioned. If a person works 40 hours a week, they should be entitled to, have a right to and be able to make enough to live comfortably on and not have ANYONE question their integrity. As for raising minimum wage.... here's a novel idea..... instead make it so that every time a CEO takes a raise (including ALL forms of compensation, stock options, bonuses, etc.), 110% is added to the worker. So if a CEO makes a million one year and decides he needs a 100% raise and pays himself 2 million the next, the company's workers get 110% raise. If there is a company that has say 1,000 employees and the CEO takes a $1 million raise and bonus and perks..... that those 1,000 workers each could have had a $10,000 a year raise? Imagine the dedication, loyalty and incentive you would create in your workforce if you said.... "I'll not take a raise this year, (or I'll drop my $11 mill salary to $10 Mill), and give it to the workers that produce the product the raise instead. Let's see a CEO say that instead of why if minimum wage goes up, the prices of goods go up and he still takes a huge ass raise. PS by giving the workers that raise also, increases the tax base thus takes some of the burden of the CEO. __________________ 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?" Last edited by pan6467; 10-31-2006 at 11:56 AM..