So, the Southern Republicans, "the plantation caucus" want US workers to earn the same wages...

[SKKY]

...as their Japanese counterparts? How about having American CEOs earn the same wage as their Japanese counterparts? Hmmmm. Where's the outrage here?

[Cleita]

1. Is anybody listening to those empty talking heads anymore?

btw Japanese workers have national health care, something our workers don't.

[Double T]

2. corporate america is always looking for their next crop of slave workers.

A corporate executive backlash is necessary to bring these sticking filthy obscenely rich CEOs, executive management and boards of directors bastards and bitches back to reality; the day of fleecing America and the rest of the world are over!!

[SKKY]

8. I hope more of these stories are leaked to the press...

...It can only help stop the madness. Multi-million dollar bonuses for companies on the verge of collapse?

[msongs]

3. can we have the same high speed internet like in Japan :-) ? nt

[DBoon]

5. can we have Japan's national health insurance?

and their generous vacation?

Note that Americans put in more hours each year on the job than their Japanese counterparts, in large part because of more generous Japanese vacations.

[SKKY]

7. I'll take the broadband we have if it will bring universal health care.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Yep, of course we were told years ago that NAFTA would boost pay in other countries...

and plenty of democrats bought it.

But it looks like it drug our pay down.

....

[Hippo_Tron]

6. It did marginally in areas close to the US border, but in the process...

Our agriculture subsidies destroyed the Mexican corn industry. Mexico has enormous internal problems that can only be solved by the Mexican people. Our trading with them doesn't fix their problems. That's why I laugh when the GOP talks about how vital to "National Security" a Colombian free trade agreement is. There are good reasons to trade with Colombia and good reasons to trade with Mexico but the bullshit that right wingers use to sell "free trade" amazes me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. "plantation caucus" LOL!

Sums them up beautifully!!!:rofl:

[SKKY]

10. That's what Rachel Maddow calls them. I wish I was smart enough to think of that.

[The Wizard]

11. Not much has changed

since they were the Confederacy.

[SKKY]

12. That's the impression I get.

[Kalyke]

18. Actually, the people are quite different - and far less racist

than in, say, Boston.

However, the idiots we get to choose from as our representatives haven't changed much in the past 200 years.

[tsuki]

13. "the plantation caucus" Does that mean we have to call him "masta Rush?"

[WinkyDink]

16. "Massa".

[tsuki]

17. Sorry for the misspell. Should have checked with FR first. nt

[Hellataz]

14. I don't think americans have issues with working for a wage, it's FINDING the job that's the problem

That's what the GOP and the fat cat CEO's don't get. If they stopped being greedy and ponied up some of their massive salary to employee more workers in their company, there wouldn't be this problem.

[WinkyDink]

15. Not to mention what Japanese CEO's do to show remorse.

[NorthCarolina]

19. American CEO's would NEVER accept the wages of foreign CEO's

"In 2004, the average American CEO was paid $10 million, as reported in The Wall Street Journal’s annual analysis of the 350 largest public companies (WSJ 2005). This is a huge 14.5 percent increase over the annual CEO compensation in 2003. American CEO pay currently dwarfs foreign CEO pay. German CEOs make 13 times more than the average German manufacturing employee an in Japan, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio is just 11-to-1 (Greenfield 1999)."

From: http://www.cab.latech.edu/~mkroll/510_papers/fall_05/Group6.pdf

No way, no how......