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To: Road Walker who wrote (466792)	3/27/2009 10:38:12 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578097

you raise the minimum wage and there will be less jobs at McDonalds

To: Road Walker who wrote (466792)	3/27/2009 10:42:52 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578097

Frankly that's not human nature. It is more than human nature it is animal nature. I'm not saying that there aren't those who are more motivated, and sizable portion. But it makes no sense at all to provide an incentive for people NOT to work, and that's what we do when we pay them for not working. This isn't complicated. Absolutely easily solved. Raise the minimum wage. You come here an act as though you understand economics, then you go and say something dumb like this. Obviously, increasing the minimum wage will be counterproductive in getting people who are laid off re-hired. Even YOU can understand that. But the bigger problem is that we, as a country, are already unable to compete with the rest of the world due to wages and a standard of living that is out of sync with the rest of the world. What happens? Our jobs move to other countries. What we're seeing right now is, in part, an economic alignment with other regions of the world. The end result is a lower standard of living for Americans because of unions and other measures that have us overpaying people with respect to the rest of the world. Obama stood up yesterday and said he will not act to keep our jobs from going overseas because those are jobs we don't want anyway. So, we're rather pay people to watch Oprah than to have those jobs back. That's economic change we can believe in.