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To: Road Walker who wrote (286331)	5/2/2006 1:17:44 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1577217

Maybe that's part of the difference between your country and my country. In the country I grew up in, companies making all time record profits would be embarrassed to not pay all their workers a living wage. Companies and employers in every capitalist system in the world pay their employees as little as they can. That's why the US has unions (organized labor fighting for better wages from companies that doesn't want to increase payscales) and the minimum wage (federally mandated increases in wages to force companies/individual to pay more because the don't do so on their own). If you think US companies pay their employees well because WANT TO, you are delusional. A NIKE factory in the US will pay its employees as little as is possible, and a NIKE factory in Vietnam will pay its employees as little as possible. The numbers in Vietnam are lower, but that doesn't mean NIKE USA is a more altruistic entity than NIKE Vietnam. re: I wonder how the Japanese and Korean auto companies are opening plants in the US while the Ford's and GM's are moving manufacturing south of the border? **************** 1. The Asian companies are not unionized in the US. 2. The Asian companies basically had to set up domestic plants or Congress would slap tariffs on imported autos in the same way that they did steel a few years back. 1. Most US companies are not unionized I thought you were talking about auto companies. They are unionized. and 2. Bull shit, that was a failed Bush attempt that lasted a couple of months. It's not bullshit - I'm not talking about a recent event. If all the Japanese and Korean cars sold in the US were made outside US borders, and the US auto industry was going bankrupt (as they seem to be), you can bet your ass congress would tax foreign auto imports.

To: Road Walker who wrote (286331)	5/2/2006 1:21:55 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577217

First is to get rid of the illegals. Round them up and jail them? Deport them? Turn them into bonded labor for two years? Sounds like a hard time for the tired poor huddled masses. And what if Americans don't want to do the jobs that the illegals were doing? I don't want to pick grapes. Second could be to impose a level playing field with regard to working conditions and environmental regulation... if not, impose equivalent tariffs. Huh? Do you mean implement a global minimum wage? That's totally ridiculous. (BTW that might help YOUR people). That would kill economic expansion and eliminate jobs for millions. Wait. Who are MY people? The women of Hooters!? Third, we've got to figure a way to smooth the US wage scale, back to the way it used to be. I frankly don't know how you do that... it's more a social issue than a political or business issue. But it needs to be done if America isn't going to fall into third world status that you seem to admire so much. Tax the rich! Starting with you first...