Comments on: Taking on the minimum-wage debate in L.A.

By: Dork

Dork — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:27:38 +0000

While Los Angeles gained 1 million new residents over the last three decades, it lost about 165,000 jobs.

And of course we will never look at the real problem, why are JOBS LEAVING??

By: desmond

desmond — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:15:48 +0000

Thank-you, Ted Queeg Ahaul for a well intended post.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 01:10:58 +0000

No. Calif is a high cost area filled with desperate service workers being exploited by tech imperialists who make high wages on the backs of foreign tech trinket makers.

Domestic and foreign workers get ripped off and are living in crowded substandard housing and eating big box store or company provided gruel.

Insourcing foreign tech workers at cheap rates is taking jobs from Americans.

Tech workers should be taxed heavily, accordingly.

By: desmond

desmond — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:50:11 +0000

Ted Queeg Ahaul, Support your comment that foreign tech workers are making tech wages. What is the slave wage, What company is it paid at? In the bay area, tech salaries are at the top of the scale. I know the food service workers are not paid much to give us free food throughout the day. That is not a tech worker, Ted.

By: eck

eck — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:13:16 +0000

When I encounter people who say the minimum wage should be $15 or 20 or whatever, I always ask, why not $50, or better yet $100?! That should make everyone with a good wage, no? Well, after hemming and hawing, they say too much. But they never have an argument why, because they have no grasp of basic economics or business. I blame our schools and their “dumbed down” education.

By: Greg Penglis

Greg Penglis — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:18:47 +0000

We wil never win an argument over the minimum wage, so long as we use the term – minimum wage. That is because you can’t win hearts and minds, however logically you argue, when you argue for giving people less than the minimum. I have tried for years to come up with conservative answers to problems, but also by using conservative language to describe them. I never use the obsolete term, minimum wage. I instead use: “total revenue index.” This is a term I made up. It is derived by taking not only a low income wage, but every other subsidy, transfer, welfare, housing, and every other program available to the low income wage earner, and dividing it up into an hourly wage. That can be compared to prevailing wages within an industry, and now it is a fair comparison. Use total revenue index for all discussions of wages, and your thinking will change. Only then can you come up with reasonable arguments and solutions. It’s all in my article here: http://intellectualconservative.com/the-conservative-response-to-the-minimum-wage/

By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:58:31 +0000

Comrades
Your enemy are globalists who suck out money from locals and pay service workers slave wages.

Troughies are few and far afield and do little damage.

High tech imperialists are a big problem paying slave wages to foreign workers too poor to resist their plight.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:54:35 +0000

How about everyone must be paid the same as a trough feeder and with the pension and other benefits, of course.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:45:26 +0000

I understand that McDonalds is experimenting with a robot that can make burgers. So the higher the wages get the more advantage the robot has.

So then what are all the unemployed workers going to do then? More welfare and food stamps.

But alas the democrats do not really care about anything except more Govt control of everything.