[medshop]

Your ridiculous grasp of simple economic concepts is why you are failing, liberals..

Laws, and especially the basic law of supply and demand, won't bend to your silly ideological bent and crazy theories.. You can't call it "racist" and make it move either.

It's a LAW, and nothing will change that..

I'm sorry.

How blissful and simplistic...dare I say naive ?

But speaking of LAWS of supply and demand..what happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

[Wluwsdtn]

How blissful and simplistic...dare I say naive ?

But speaking of LAWS of supply and demand..what happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

Wait..I'll let WAL MART answer for you......

Even Wal Mart knows the extent of the damage, and know they have to bend a little, before they shoot themselves in their OWN foot


My smiley face has not quite perked up over this news. After all, Wal-Mart pays low wages. A 2004 UC Berkeley study found that over half of Wal-Mart workers earned under $9 per hour, while other large retailers pay $14 on average. As a result, the families of Wal-Mart employees are more likely than other retail workers to need food stamps and other public assistance programs. Usually Wal-Mart must be forced kicking and screaming to pay something like a living wage—as Chicago city council has just done.

Wal-Mart contributes to a low-wage economy in other ways too. Its business practices force suppliers to cut costs, so in turn these firms cut wages. Other retailers (who may not have such influence over their suppliers) are forced to cut the wages they pay to compete with Wal-Mart. Another Berkeley study estimates that in 2000, the total earnings of retail workers in the United States dropped by $4.7 billion due to Wal-Mart’s presence.

And now Wal-Mart, the icon of the low-wage economy, wants to raise minimum wages? Has Wal-Mart got some kind of multiple personality disorder?

Believe it or not, this makes a kind of sense in the wacko realities of the low-wage economic model. Wal-Mart loves low wages, but it starts to be a problem if wages go too low. From Wal-Mart’s perspective, more highly paid workers can afford to shop at fancier places than Wal-Mart. So Wal-Mart is content when a higher-paid workforce gets its wages cut. For Wal-Mart, union bashing is A-OK because unions might actually fight for wages that are high enough to allow workers to shop at places other than Wal-Mart.

But if wages get too low, then too many people have too little purchasing power. Would-be Wal-Mart customers will be frequenting food banks and Dumpsters instead of its stores. At US $5.15 (less than $6 Canadian) per hour, the US minimum wage hasn’t risen since 1997. After adjusting for inflation, the purchasing power of the minimum wage is at its lowest level since 1955.

[osteoftex]

UC BERKELY ....SAARA'S ASSHOLE....... SHITMOUSE'S MOUTH........

WHERE'S GARY, JODIE, AND THAT OTHER JACK-ASS?

[haittiweerved]

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OOPS! JUST A LITTLE TOUCH

OF "WAGES GOT TOO LOW" THERE,

PREMIER OBAMA!!


LET'S GET THAT MINIMUM WAGE UP, OK??????

[TpDoctorOneTp]

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OF COURSE, TAXES MUST GO UP!!!!!!!!!

[9rCR9hWL]

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I KNOW!!!! LET'S BORROW SOME MORE MONEY!!!!!

[MichaelfromSpace]

And there you have it...even Wal mart themselves know they have deflated wages to the point they have hurt their own busiess, but they want an accross the board increase, as opposed to a unilateral one...big shock huh ?

Wait..I'll let WAL MART answer for you......

Even Wal Mart knows the extent of the damage, and know they have to bend a little, before they shoot themselves in their OWN foot


My smiley face has not quite perked up over this news. After all, Wal-Mart pays low wages. A 2004 UC Berkeley study found that over half of Wal-Mart workers earned under $9 per hour, while other large retailers pay $14 on average. As a result, the families of Wal-Mart employees are more likely than other retail workers to need food stamps and other public assistance programs. Usually Wal-Mart must be forced kicking and screaming to pay something like a living wage—as Chicago city council has just done.

Wal-Mart contributes to a low-wage economy in other ways too. Its business practices force suppliers to cut costs, so in turn these firms cut wages. Other retailers (who may not have such influence over their suppliers) are forced to cut the wages they pay to compete with Wal-Mart. Another Berkeley study estimates that in 2000, the total earnings of retail workers in the United States dropped by $4.7 billion due to Wal-Mart’s presence.

And now Wal-Mart, the icon of the low-wage economy, wants to raise minimum wages? Has Wal-Mart got some kind of multiple personality disorder?

Believe it or not, this makes a kind of sense in the wacko realities of the low-wage economic model. Wal-Mart loves low wages, but it starts to be a problem if wages go too low. From Wal-Mart’s perspective, more highly paid workers can afford to shop at fancier places than Wal-Mart. So Wal-Mart is content when a higher-paid workforce gets its wages cut. For Wal-Mart, union bashing is A-OK because unions might actually fight for wages that are high enough to allow workers to shop at places other than Wal-Mart.

But if wages get too low, then too many people have too little purchasing power. Would-be Wal-Mart customers will be frequenting food banks and Dumpsters instead of its stores. At US $5.15 (less than $6 Canadian) per hour, the US minimum wage hasn’t risen since 1997. After adjusting for inflation, the purchasing power of the minimum wage is at its lowest level since 1955.

[aideriimibion]

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SAARA SHITS AND EATS IT, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

[juspimoubbodo]

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LET'S ADD NEW TAXES......

[GfBTWMmV]

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AND RAISE ALL THE THOUSANDS OF EXISTING TAXES...


AND MAYBE INFLATE THE CURRENCY

SOME MORE.... OH, AND BORROW SOME

MORE MONEY FROM CHINA....

AND LET'S ADD A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND

NEW PAGES OF RESTRICTIVE REGULATORY

LEGISLATION..... COOL!!!

[Cogebrego]

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...AND IF ANYBODY TRIES TO DO ANYTHING

CONSTRUCTIVE..... OBAMA CAN STOP THEM BY DECREE!!!!


IT'S SAARALAND..... GREENER AND CUTER

THAN TELETUBBIE LAND!!!!

[paypaltoegold1]

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OVER THE CLIFF, LEMMINGS.... A QUEER FROM

U.C. BERKELEY... AND AN OLD, FUCKED-OUT

BULL-CUNT SHALL LEAD YOU! HAIL PREMIER OBAMA!!

[N9NACzws]

How blissful and simplistic...dare I say naive ?

But speaking of LAWS of supply and demand..what happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

Oh, you mean like when you flood the market with illegals and destitute Americans?

They go DOWN..

[appleiphoneees]

SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID

INCOME TAXES

AND A THOUSAND MORE.....

TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, FUEL, AND TELEPHONE TAXES ESPECIALLY IMPACT LOW INCOME PERSONS.

[Blacksheepaalredy]

Oh, you mean like when you flood the market with illegals and destitute Americans?

They go DOWN..

What happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

it is rhetorical....it won't hurt for long...just say it

[Timoxari]

What happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

it is rhetorical....it won't hurt for long...just say it

That question is worded very poorly, Sarah..

[PetraCromlich]

The problem here is that you don't know what you are talking about.. Again.

And WalMart CAN'T MANIPULATE WAGES BECAUSE THEY DON'T SET WAGES IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[Gscvbhhv]

Th

What happens to DEMAND when wages are minipulated and deflated ?

Why does Wal Mart SUPPORT an increase in the minuimum wage ?

[Rounteetepe]

they sell chinese goods. All those red staters that shop there are supporting the commies. Thanks red staters