I think I will get over it.

What you read was people who can barely pay for themselves should not, by choice, having kids.

I am not talking about sending to a suburban school or a having money left over to deck you kid out in Baby Gap. I am talking about having enough money for formula and diapers. Having money to feed and dress a child. Those are kinda important. I was speaking about the responsibility of having a child.

As for wages going backward….I NEVER said they should. If you peel away your liberal mantra and read again what I wrote, you will see that THE COST of paying some X needs to go down. NOT X itself!

The cost of paying some $8 in WNY is similar to paying someone $12-$14 in other parts of the nation. The reason is the BACK END costs associated with being an employer in NYS.

Demanding people to pay more and not doing anything about the BACK END is the reason why the area is hurting. It is the reason why jobs left and few are coming in.

See a CEO or business owner does not look at the paycheck of the worker. He/She looks at the total cost of payroll. If you want wages to go up and more money to go into the pockets of the workers, the ONLY way to make this happen is to lower the back end cost. Lower taxes and payroll expenses.

Auto and Steel came to Buffalo BECAUSE at the time there were LOW TAXES and NO UNIONS. Auto and Steel left BECAUSE there were high taxes and unions.

When was the last time you read about a union working with a business and using their powers to lower the back end cost so they could get higher wages? It has never happened. Unions are there to change the paycheck. If they would focus on working with their employers to reduce the cost, they would have has much better results.

Get over it.

Thomas Frank’s soon-to-be-published book, The Wrecking Crew, says it all:

should say

I couldn’t form my own sentences, Thomas Frank does it for me and here’s a batch of text:

You remind me of Cal Thomas, that hack, all he does is slap long quotes together and pretends he wrote a column.

“Fantastic misgovernment is not an accident; nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. […] Its leaders laugh off the idea of the public interest as airy-fairy nonsense; they caution against bringing top-notch talent into government service; they declare war on public workers. […] The ruination they have wrought has been thorough; it has been a professional job.”

And don’t get the idea he is limiting his invective at “The Republicans;” given yesterday’s FISA vote, I think we can safely say the rot is pretty bi-partisan.

holy living pile of steaming crap!

so should we continue to just let peoples wages decline? maybe in a few years, itll be equivalent of just 6 dollars. or five. maybe one of your kids wont make it through ecc and have to work with their hands. then your seed can stop there.

lets just all move to some third world country and start working in a sweat shop now.

Come out of the closet, pussy.

Unskilled laborers should NOT be making 20 bucks an hour. Wanna make that kind of money?? Get your ass back in school and learn a trade.

Too many people in WNY aspired to “get my ass out of high school and get a job with GM/Bethlehem/etc”. In many cases your dad or an uncle could “get you in” and your ass was set for life –20 and out @ GM. Well, that worked pretty damn good in the 50’s and 60’s. Take a look around–those places and those jobs are GONE. And the ridiculously high wages and benefits paid to those Union workers are exactly why those places and jobs are gone.

Check out some of the people who work as laborers. See how many never finished high school. most of them have spotty work records, lots of firings, attendance problems, etc. Sure there are exceptions, and one of those may have commented here. So no finger pointing at that commentor. I’ve interviewed LOTS of people with that resume’. And as soon as I see highest grade completed less than 12, the application goes in the trash—can’t finish high school, chances are you can’t finish any task I might assign you.

Not Mike though, every piece of shit who never finished school and has the intelligence of a bowl of jello should join a Union and make 20 bucks an hour. BULLSHIT.

The internet boom and a lot of computer-related efficiencies in the 90s is also responsible

I should have said

The internet boom and computer-related efficiency in the 90s is also responsible