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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Please enlighten.
One of the problems I have is that unions skew the wages for unskilled labor, many times to the point where they are higher than skilled labor jobs. The wages earned by the grocery workers are higher than some earned by college grads. Trust me, I know this for a fact. There's something unbalanced in that equation...
-Wayne
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I'm not sure what the question is. It would have taken more than impressive salary and excellent benefits to make me reach a decision to accept a career stocking Wheaties at the grocery store in my sleepy North Idaho hometown. But there were takers. Not a bad idea, as it turns out. The UFCW generally bargains for grocery workers and their compensation, particularly their pension, has historically been excellent. I wonder if anybody is suggesting that society benefits when unskilled grocery jobs are closer to minimum wage with no pension. In fact, let's just shape all compensation packages (except for you guys' jobs, of course) this way and watch America soar.
I'm with Steve, of course. Everyone pretends that all workers and all citizens have an outside horse on the economic carousel, and that therefore all can reach the rings and perhaps catch the Brass Ring. It's only the liberals who suggest that some folks are situated on the various inside horses, where the rings are eight feet beyond arms' length. Sure, there are a few rags-to-riches success stories to help folks pretend that the playing field is level, but we all really know it's not. When conservatives have to face that ugly fact, they drop the "everyone can succeed" crap and change to the "Well, that's the law of the jungle" stuff. Fact is, we can do more than just let the chips fall where they may. People in Africa are starving. We can save their lives and the lives of their children. But that would violate the Law of the Jungle, so it's important that we upgrade our iPods rather than upset the balance by helping. Sheesh. This theory that greed is an important element of our ethical, Christian way of life is.........not really even funny. Convenient. And transparent.