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To: Road Walker who wrote (275685)	2/20/2006 1:53:45 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574295

"And I find it surprising how few people seem to care that our lower wage earners are losing ground, and can or can't make ends meet. It drags down the whole country, in my opinion." Does it ever. It is like when AmyJ was commenting on how much safer she felt in that other country. I'll bet money that country had a much narrower gap between the rich and the poor, and percentage-wise, has a larger middle class than we do. Such countries tend to have a much lower rate of violent crime than we do. People who are safely middle class just don't resort to violence as much.

To: Road Walker who wrote (275685)	2/20/2006 2:00:30 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574295

You think there should be an exact balance of wages world wide for the same job? That factory workers in Detroit should make the same as in Beijing? I think that the person willing to work for less should be able to work instead of someone else who wants to do the same job but for more. That's equality. Why should you or him or her or Steve or Mr Qing be able to get paid $10 for a job I can do equally well and am willing to do for $9? Anyway, my opinion about how things should be really don't matter. Economics will just force it to occur. If you want to pay $1,000 more for a made in America car than the equivalent made in China car, good for you, but you're pushing the rock up hill. I'm first concerned about this country, and it's citizens. And I find it surprising how few people seem to care that our lower wage earners are losing ground, and can or can't make ends meet. It drags down the whole country, in my opinion. I am concerned about all the people on the planet. We are all created equal - that's in the constitution my man, and it has nothing to say about Americans being more equal than people in other nations.