Maybe. Or it might increase entry-level salaries for the people who have the incentive to compete for them to purchase items more significant than 300-dollar sneakers or plasma screens.

I would be willing to bet that, that is unlikely. From my own experiences in the automotive industry, companies are more willing to hire the lowest common denominator for insulting wages than pay a little more for the school trained candidates.

I'm sure that's true.

It's a certain fact that the minimum wage, as it stands, doesn't work, so they need to make one change or the other.

Yeah, I know it too!! Phil works for a living and does not set back and type on a computor all day.. I will refrain from making any insults however...

Actually RR I am a control room operator and have recieved high comments from both sides union and salaried. \If you care to know more read the Meet the Political Posters thread.. As My last post was planned then. I did make this one exception..

and then there was prevailing wage... forcing the goverment to pay a guy that is pushing a broom on a construction site $28 dollars an hour, or a guy holding a sign on the side of the road $40 an hour. I agree unions have increase wages in this country but why should the goverment have to pay 25 to 30 percent more to build a building so they can grossly over pay people. That being said a lot of union guys earn there money (carpenters at 26ish dollars an hour, Iron workers at 35ish dollars an hour, entry level police a 45 -50k a year) but some of it is just out of hand, paying unskilled individuals to perform unskilled work $28 an hour is wasted money that puts this county further in debt.

Reminds me of an ancecdote a buddy of mine told me who lost a paystub at the car lot where he's a paint and body man. The lot boy, who does nothing but clean cars and police the lot, found the stub and complained to the manager that he worked more hours that week and got paid less than my buddy.

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He did??? In my opinion Reagan was one of the WORST!!! Presidents we ever had!!!!

The only way to get a handle on this economy is to get fuel prices down. Guess who runs big oil? The Republicans! Yeah we need to give them more tax breaks so they can drive the price of fuel even higher. The high price of fuel is driving up the price of everything.

How so? Military policy? (wall down) Economic? (most robust economy since the end of WWII)

If you can document to me how Reagan was one of the "worst" presidents in history, I'll vote for a muslim communist this time.