You just DO NOT GET IT
its not about ACCEPTING
ITS ABOUT REALITY. YOu cannot change the fact that other countries have labor that is much cheaper than American labor but just as competent.
That is nice, but until you can commute to those countries daily it is irrelevant to anything you are talking about. Simply the cost of living is high in America. So unless you also have the government step in and tell all the businesses to lower their costs you simply cannot drop the minimum wage to compete with foreign workers. This also happens in America. i used to live near NYC. It was a known fact that as you traveled out of NYC you lost 1k off your salary every mile. You also had much lower cost of living as you got out of the NYC suburbs. Many people made a lot of money there by sacrificing 2-3 hours of commute or more each day. many other people took less pay to work outside the city and had those hours of their life back.
The reality is that you just simply cannot cut the minimum wage like that because the greedy businesses are not going to cut cost of living expenses. if that is your idea then you go work for 5 dollars and hour and see how much you can get with that. otherwise america needs different solutions like protecting our markets. It is just simple, people like the chinese cannot get the US market anywhere else in the world.
Your worship of Obama is touching but his legislation cannot undo that fact. Corporations that pay 5 times the cost of labor cannot survive no matter how many tax cuts obama promises them.
There is actually a better solution. it is called tarrifs. you want to get cheapo labor in china and import then you will pay the same or more because the taxes. You want to avoid those high tarrifs? then you set up your company's manufacturing in the US. Your solution to knock us down to 5 cents and hour to compete just won't work without government intervention to lower prices. Then the government would have to get their noses into every thing we charge money for, and that simply is not possible.
Also, a good first step would be to cut off any tax relief a company gets for outsourcing jobs. that is something Romney will not implement because his investment value would plummet.
Obama also is too beholden to his class warfare ideals to figure out that his schemes to punish the successful drives success out of this country. using taxes to reward or punish people is one of the reasons why we are in the mess we are in now.
Oh your faux news talking points are just wrong. We all know that, and you should try thinking for yourself. This war and fighting crap is so old, and you should really learn to practice what you preach instead of being so divisive all the time.
the only way the middle class gets stronger is if they become more competitive and worth more wages than their counterparts in Asia or south america
There is simply no way to compete with a place where the cost of living is a small fraction of what it is here. At a certain point you would make more money a month on welfare than those people make. You8r ides have no basis in reality.
and sitting back and whining about the rich or sucking on the public teat isn't going to do that
this idea people want to suck off of welfare is such a load of crap. people want to work. They want to have things, and that means a job. You are so full of it pretending everyone wants all their stuff for free. it simply is not so, and you are living in a complete fantasy world. Come back from planet fox, and come back to reality.
you want high tech level wages-you learn hi tech skills.
Talk about your college lie. things work on supply and demand. if everyone just got high tech skills there would be an oversupply and the market would crash. We saw this years ago when labor caught up to the tech boom in the computer industry. there was such a demand for anyone with computer knowledge that they were hiring janitors who had computer hobbies as tech guys. Then everyone saw the big money and people jumped into the field. Now computer techs are a dime a dozen and their salaries have dropped significantly.
This whole lie that you get an education and you can write your own paycheck is a load of crap. It is the bull**** line every college tells their students to get their tuition sales up. The reality is that now 2 and 4 year degrees are common, and no one is going to hire you if that is all you have.
and its not my or anyone else in the top 5%'s fault that you don't have those skills
there are plenty of people out there with a college education who are unemployed, or underemployed. please, that is such a load of bull to blame people and tell them you will get a job if you go to college and get an education.
the other problem is due to the stupification of our school system by the religious right US degrees are not worth much compared to countries where education is kept at a high level. but we will all be saved if we let the christians force more creationism into science class. your chances of getting a biotech job when you think god did it is an actual answer are slim to none.