And help destroy what’s left of the main street economy. What? someone knows what’s in the TPP, don’t be silly, but just as the rest of the Government led trade deals are decimating American industry and leaving us with no quality in what we buy and use, TPP should be more of the same except it seems more like a double down.
The 15$/hour minimum wage just isn’t practible nor sustainable, the 1% aren’t the ones that will pay that, we are, you walk into a place paying those wages to their entry level employees, you won’t be able to afford to shop there. The wages come out of the business revenues, the money their customers spend, to make the books balance, for this to make sense, shifts will be forced to do with many fewer people and prices will have to rise.
It’s not high schoolers out their organizing protests for the higher wages, just who is it? Who really wants to see the whole package? not only the higher wages but the substantially higher prices to keep a business open? Really who is it? Who profits from inflation? who can afford the media blitz promoting and petitioning for the 15$/hour. One other thing it will shut out an entire segment of the work force, you will see college grads running the McDonald’s french friers. And I don’t just mean the liberal arts degrees either.
So, I can’t just rant here without offering some solutions, I mean I can, but I can type also up some more stuff here. These trade deals, this globalism needs to be a tide that lifts all the boats, not just lets the water out of Amerca’s tub and floats Mexico’s or the Pacific Rim. Besides, Main street doesn’t benefit at all, after we lose our jobs we still pay way too high prices for way too little quality and the over seas people making this inferior product are getting paid slave wages. There’s quite a margin going somewhere. So, why can’t we somehow encourage and aid other nations to build a better mouse trap without gutting all of ours? Good question!
We need to empower people, we need to reward a work ethic, allow people to earn their way up a wage ladder, not just promote everybody, because when you promote everybody, nobody gets ahead, just the opposite, and it hurts those retired on fixed income and those still working, by lifting the minimum wage back up closer to those who have lifted themselves up. That right, raising the minimum wage doesn’t raise anybody else’s pay, most don’t notice that in the abstract where these debates and protests get going.