CHICAGO - The City Council brushed aside warnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to approve an ordinance that makes Chicago the biggest city in the nation to require big-box retailers to pay a "living wage."
The ordinance, which passed 35-14 Wednesday after three hours of impassioned debate, requires mega-retailers to pay wages of at least $10 an hour plus $3 in fringe benefits by mid-2010. It would only apply to companies with more than $1 billion in annual sales and stores of at least 90,000 square feet.
Socialists (liberals) show that they don't get it.
Why are their no jobs in the inner cities?
Because unions (liberal) forced all the manufacturing jobs out of the United States because of regulations and wages that were too high...
So, here they go again...
This is going after Wal-mart (maybe K-mart and Target too)...
So, what is Wal-mart going to do??? Leave the inner city again...
It's not just the inner city either.
Anyone who doesn't have the skills to get a higher paying job needs Wal-mart.
You know who else needs it? Poor people.
You can save over $2,000 a year shopping at wal-mart....
So, liberals are taking away more jobs, and taking away an opportunity for poor people to get more for their money...
I thought liberals were the ones who got the credit for caring about poor people?
Once again, liberals think with their hearts and not with their heads...
Just like with welfare and the projects and every other liberal program EVER, they will hurt the people they want to help....
Yes, it "feels good" to pass a law giving poor people more money, but it will take away jobs and a place to shop...
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Chicago council passes 'living wage' act
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These people are total fools, an embarrassment to my city, and the ironic thing is that they consider themselves enlightened and progressive. They're too busy patting themselves on the back for standing up to the man to think about an elementary idea like a price floor.
It also guarantees that teenagers will not be able to find summer jobs, and therefore when they graduate they will have no experience
but who will get the political credit?
the Democrats...who will they blame when all the jobs leave the cities and poor people can't get ANY jobs...GWB...
has happened since the 60's..
I have written about this MANY times...usually get no response or one that does not pertain to the topic...
The idea has merit, but the wage is awfully high. Dont owrry about WalMart, either. They will find a way to fuck someone over and keep their stores open.
right, the idea SOUNDS good until you use your brain...
Sounds good regardless. If the corp. cuts and runs when a mild law(say $7 + health) is put in forcing them to respect and pay their full time employees, then its proof that they dont care about the community they operate in.
rhyno--
You call yourself a libertarian with this socialist drivel? You're not fooling anyone.
Mathematical analysis defeats "caring" any day of the week. Wage floors below the market price of labor are ineffective, and wage floors above the equilibrium create unemployment. It sickens me when politicians prey on public ignorance when proposing minimum wage laws.
As Nobel Laureate James Buchanan once remarked, “No self-respecting economist would claim that increases in the minimum wage increase employment. Such a claim, if seriously advanced, becomes equivalent to a denial that there is even minimum scientific content in economics... Fortunately, only a handful of economists are willing to throw over the teaching of two centuries."
its feels good, so lets do it!!!
While everyone suffers in the process...and it is not 7 bucks...its 10 bucks and 3 in this law
I dont claim to know what will or wont work. I just know that a large powerful corporation who offers lots of jobs to an area is at a huge unfair advantage when it comes to negotiating a fair wage with its potential employees, the basis for Adam Smith style economics. In todays age, large multi-national corporations are not needed and are only a dinosaur that needs to die. The international banking system, and Internet have utterly antiquated this type of system. Small and medium sized businesses with smaller overheads and more efficient labor cant easily handle local commerce, regardless of what it is. It will help reduce the power of the labor unions, and reduce inflation spikes, too.
let that read,"...can handle local and international commerce..."
you might think small buisness is better, but there is less and less of it in the commerce market all the time
you might think small buisness is better, but there is less and less of it in the commerce market all the time
It shouldn't be the government's business to dictate wages anyway. An employment contract is voluntary, why is it Government's business to step in and tell one party or the other what they want? If Wal-Mart employees are so abused, why do they still work there? Why do they keep voting NOT to unionize?
If there are people who truly are so useless that they can't find a higher paying job, maybe they should turn the TV off when they get home from work and educate themselves, practice a marketable skill, or find some other way to make themselves more employable. Because what's going to happen to THEM when Wal-Mart decides they don't want to do business in Chicago anymore? Now they've gone from minimum wage to nothing.
I'm only posting anonymously because I'm too lazy to look up my password, as it's been awhile since I've logged into Blogger
It shouldn't be the government's business to dictate wages anyway. An employment contract is voluntary, why is it Government's business to step in and tell one party or the other what they want?
You are joking..please tell me you are joking...read your damned history book from the turn of the century...This is the kind of mind numbing sheeple talk that irritates the hell out of me!
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