I actually didn't see the councillor's argument as bashing. I do find the idea that people should be paid enough to not need government services rather compelling from a moral point of view and the idea that allowing employers to not do so is in fact welfare for businesses to be rather interesting. Interesting enough perhaps to support an initiative that is definitely not in *my* best interests. There's no question that such an initiative would make the slope from one employee to five much much steeper. But perhaps other programs would provide a more honest subsidy for the microbusiness with this issue. Internships or tax writeoffs, perhaps. I am not close enough to there to have researched it.
On the other hand, without getting into paricular employers, I think an entity that has more than say 1000 employees that does *not* pay a living wage -- and sure, many do -- has far less excuse. Dana On 9/24/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > I can tell you didn't look at the link I posted. I am actually quite > > interested in your reaction to this part, which is the "pro" part of a > pro > > and con summary: > > *** > > Here's the problem with bashing corporations - probably 99.9% of the > people on this board either work at corporations, make products for > corporations, or provide services to corporations. They all make good > cash. > > The sad truth is, low skilled workers are usually low skilled because > they don't want to be more skilled. That means the only jobs left > nowadays are customer service positions. It also means there's a huge > supply, but smaller demand. If these people wanted higher skilled > jobs, they'd be working at getting higher skills. Yes, a percentage > physically can't, but I'm arguing that it's a small percentage. > > The answer is not to subsidize these people either from a higher > minimum wage or by the government, but something along these lines: > > 1.) All college admissions are held until 2 years from high school > graduation except in cases of astounding talent. Admissions require > spelling, crammer, history, finance, civics, and math tests with > students able to, for example, be competent in calculus. SATs go > bye-bye in favor of "boards" or a series of exams. High school grads > must be able to calculate interest, talk about the constitution, and > speak a foreign language as more examples. Further their senior > project would be a career they want to get into and plan for how > they'll be successful. > > 2.) Any company that does business in the US or is headquartered in > the US must provide 6mo or 1 year "co-op" or internships to high > school kids so that they can decide what they'd like to do by working > in a multitude of industries. > > 3.) Government should subsidize technology and ensure that the US > always has the world's leading technology infrastructure. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:174902 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
