GM and others shutting down production.
Just heard the GM part on tv news, looked HERE and found out it's hitting the others as well. Trucks seem to be getting the hardest knocks. Our little Chevy dealer here only has 4 new vehicles on ...
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The problem with raising wages by law is that if our expensive workers are not protected from cheap competition they will soon find themselves out of work. That is why so few manufactured goods are made in this country. If you can put something in a box and ship it there are people on this planet willing to make those items for a lot less than $15/hr and under a lot worse conditions.
The same is becoming true for office workers. If a job can be done online it can be done anywhere on the planet now.
Service jobs are losing their safety. I can remember when almost every gas station had service bays and had workers pump the gas for you, I think that there is still one in town that does those things but I don't go there because it is too expensive. Plus, cars have been made better so that they need much less maintenance than they used to. My son installs automation for a living. He is rooting for a higher minimum wage so that more employers will be able to justify robots and other forms of automation. I am not making nearly as much money as I used to because my job went to India. India does not return that money to us, it is just gone from our economy.
I would love to see wages here increase but if not done carefully legislation will do more harm than good. One of the biggest things that we need to do is teach our kids a work ethic so that they are actually worth $15/hr or more. My wife and I put a lot of time into teaching our kids how to think and work. All four of them have jobs paying more than $15/hr but too many kids are being raised without skills or work ethic and really are not worth that much.
The same is becoming true for office workers. If a job can be done online it can be done anywhere on the planet now.
Service jobs are losing their safety. I can remember when almost every gas station had service bays and had workers pump the gas for you, I think that there is still one in town that does those things but I don't go there because it is too expensive. Plus, cars have been made better so that they need much less maintenance than they used to. My son installs automation for a living. He is rooting for a higher minimum wage so that more employers will be able to justify robots and other forms of automation. I am not making nearly as much money as I used to because my job went to India. India does not return that money to us, it is just gone from our economy.
I would love to see wages here increase but if not done carefully legislation will do more harm than good. One of the biggest things that we need to do is teach our kids a work ethic so that they are actually worth $15/hr or more. My wife and I put a lot of time into teaching our kids how to think and work. All four of them have jobs paying more than $15/hr but too many kids are being raised without skills or work ethic and really are not worth that much.
