I saw the following astute and alert analysis on a friend’s Facebook page today and replied in kind.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with looking into the minimum wage in CT to see if it helps people get a job or somehow impairs them from getting a job in CT. It is worth a study. It appears that this may be a taboo entitlement situation to many. It could be possible to keep those at the present minimum wage and hire the new people at a lower minimum wage. I am no expert… I just look at things from different points of view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I agree with you sort of!<\/p>\n
The biggest problem was on or about 1992 when “industry” took a similar look and saw that union jobs had hit a magic 16. The average person with 16 years in a factory was making 16 dollars per hour.<\/p>\n
Bosses all over this country decided they needed to cut that down to 10\/hr at the end of someone’s career, and only minimum wage at the beginning.<\/p>\n
Except for the bosses’ bosses; NO ONE liked that idea.<\/p>\n
So instead they downsized\/outsourced\/closed every single plant in this nation one by one. They hired “middlemen” at about 15 per hour to lead entire teams of people making just a dollar or two more per hour than the minimum wage instead of the 16 that they panicked about in the first place.<\/p>\n
Now that almost everyone makes just a couple bucks more than minimum wage they’re panicking again.<\/p>\n
Do we want the minimum wage to be only 2\/3 what it was last year?<\/p>\n
1\/3?<\/p>\n
This is a very cynical proposition.<\/p>\n
These are most cynical times.<\/p>\n
Ironically, President Clinton pushed through a pay increase for each new President (Bush then Obama then who…) of about 3\/2’s.<\/p>\n
At a time when the US economy must shrink 2\/3’s if it will survive???<\/p>\n
We are in grave danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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