A Chinese Worker Would Be Ecstatic Working For $7.25 An Hour In China - Perkins.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The rhetoric from the RW and GOP gets more ridiculous by the day. Now the meme is that even the poorest Amercans are better off than people in India, China or the rest of Asia. What about Africa. Should workers here be happy that they are better off than the rest of the third world.

Before you know it the GOP will be complaining because the poor have flushing toilets and running water in their homes if they have enough money to pay for such. We are so far in the weeds on inequality it is not even funny.

And there seems to be so little outrage by most Americans. The top 20% of the country that is doing ok is segregated from the rest and seems to be clueless. We will not survive as a super power or decent country if we allow things to get much worse.

And the state of affairs in the US mocks all the sacrifices of all of our veterans in all of our wars of the 20th century and our new century. When you serve in combat and even go on multiple tours and are told that you can have low paying job at WALFART for Christ's sake, something is terribly radically and shamefully wrong with our country.

When we stay silent while one party and class attacks the sick, the old, the disabled, the poor, minorities, and other vulnerable populations we are GOOD AMERICANS just like the GOOD GERMANS before the Nazis and Hitler took over. We are exceptional in our stupidity to think that what happened in Germany could not happen hear.

Now we stand by as people die from lack of health care, LGBT people are mercilessly attacked and minorities are demonized without public retort.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. When the 1% have planes that whisk them around the world.

They realize quickly how desperate people are only hours away by plane.

It doesn't take long to realize the only thing between you and that desperate person in the developing world is trade policy.

With free trade they can pick between the desperate and YOU.

Soon we all will be desperate.

[El_Johns]

2. +1. They don't even try to hide it anymore.

[freshwest]

3. Cut your own pay to that or less, you worthless POS! Then talk about it! Oh, hell this is from the

same bunch of sleazoids that make jokes about slavery being better than unemployed. No wages at all would suit them. They want us to FOAD. I say, you try that out first you POS.

[pampango]

13. Exactly. The top 1% of the world has benefited tremendously in the last 25 years.

It is the 5% poorest of the poor and the Western middle class (75th to 90th percentilles) that have suffered the most. The largest number of beneficiaries have been the formerly poor, now "middle class" by local standards in the 5% to 75% ranges of the global income distribution.

There must be a way to benefit the bottom 5% and they Western middle class by going after the ill-gotten gains of the top 1% rather than the vast middle from 5% to 75%.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Given that the purchasing power of $7.25 in China

is equivalent to more than $20 in the US, then, yeah, Chinese workers probably would be happy with that.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

8. That's a little over 7700RMB a month

Most China people would love that salary.

But what they do not understand is China has cost controls and certain commodities are normally priced low and subsidized (like pork, rice, eggs, fish and most vegetables). But the logical leap is amazing. Maybe they should talk to someone who lives in China before running their mouths off.

Assholes.

[kentauros]

5. People like Perkins don't seem to be all that intelligent.

It really makes me wonder how they got into a position like that without figuring out that if you don't pay your workers enough, who is going to buy your product? And if no one is buying your product, then the company fails, and people like Perkins are out of a job. Sure, they get golden parachutes, but after a while, those will dry up, too, due to no more businesses making consumables. Then what?

[TheMastersNemesis]

15. They Don't Care Because The US IS NO LONGER Their Major Market. The Emerging Markets Are.

If Americans workers would listen to the rich's and CEO's code talk Americans are now last on their radar. They do not need American workers any more for consumption. When they say "emerging markets" they are talking about focusing on creating jobs in new parts of the world where they can get even cheaper labor.

Believe it or not China now pays too much at 50 cents and hour. Vietnam is better where pay is 23 cents an hour. And eventually it will be Africa where countries are stabilized and 23 cents an hour is great money. The American worker does not realize how much they are now marginalized. Free trade as now designed is meant to flatten wages globally.

When you hear "compete with the global" market in their rhetoric it is about "wage parity". Few Americans understand all that code. "Wage parity" is not well known because the term is avoided at all costs. I worked at DOL so I understand what they have been up to. Not that I am any smarter. It is just I was in an area where the code was deciphered.

Union busting and anti union hysteria is meant to squash what the GOP and its allies are up to. They want "work at will" in all ways so that a worker will work even terrified to lose their work. That way they have complete control.

Perkin's rhetoric and the like is a threat. Ask for more and we will take what little you have. We control the politicians and the game. It is a way to pull out the "economic whip". Just listen and you can hear the the background rhetoric. We will beat you if you speak up. And they can do it because they pretty much own the police now. Look at the rise in brutality.

We are not in my grandfather's era before the new deal. Only people who can work and shut up should live.

[bearssoapbox]

6. Hell yes! The poor should be licking the boots of the rich

and kissing their ass for the privilege of them letting the 99% to even exist on this planet.

After all, the poor really aren't poor.

“The poorest Americans today live a better life than all but the richest persons a hundred years ago.”[3] In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker."

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty



They don't have a clue what the real world is like.

[daleanime]

7. K&R....

[sendero]

9. And the oligarchs...

... in France would have loved to have a guillotine-proof neck, but they didn't. What is this idiot's point?

[safeinOhio]

10. Businessmen in China have it made

A Chinese court has come under fire for executing a prominent businessman without notifying his family.

Zeng Chengjie, a famous real estate developer in China's Hunan province, was convicted in 2011 of illegal fundraising and financial fraud, the Atlantic reports. Zeng, who was sometimes referred to as "China's Bernie Madoff "due to the scope of his deceit, reportedly defrauded more than 57,000 investors out of approximately $460 million.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/zeng-chengjie-execution_n_3605764.html

[hobbit709]

11. The French in the late 18th century had a cure for that kind of thinking.

[kydo]

12. Kick nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. The same people argued that individuals earning $250,000 a year were middle class

and that they would be hit hard by repealing the Bush tax cuts on their income. You know, the high cost of living in New York and D.C., having to pay for college educations, maybe helping out their elder parents etc. etc.; simply unaffordable. By freezing the Bush Tax cuts for those poor middle class citizens the 1% also got to keep more of them, and we all know that THEY, unlike the poor, really need those dollars.