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Everything about Trump and GOP is to make America a low wage country able to compete in global economy. That is it. We cannot compete with the third world global economy unless we work for less as a nation. We have been on this Reaganism path since 1981.
Sure there are a lot of jobs going begging and many Americans won't do them. The problem is that most of these jobs won't support a gnat. You could bet by by having two or three of them and working 70 hours a week.
The fact that they are against a higher minimum wage and are actually having a no minimum wage but want a "market based" wage. And the fact that they want to make unions illegal and want to end labor laws like the Fair Labor Standards Act should say something.
Cary
(11,746 posts)But "Right to Work" is indeed a race to the bottom. Do you know why economics is called "the dismal science?"
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Add to that the absence of any labor laws with jobs moving to models like Uber or Task Rabbit or contract only and you have the labor market the GOP and corporations and businesses want. Free of taxes, regulation or responsibility.
Cary
(11,746 posts)There need to be new ways to deal with this, big time change.
hedda_foil
(16,372 posts)Just get the pay scale down to Vietnam's and you'll be amazed at all the jobs here.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Why working class GOP voters do not get that I do not know.