Re: Wages Up by Smallest Amount in Nine Years

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:13:12 GMT, "MichaelC"
<mikecraney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Rita" <nitany_98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:oq8vt1t505ols8g0cb39i18j38t6l0cf7g@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:19:46 GMT, "J.C." <jcsplace@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Sue" <susanhofftman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >news:1138719567.870875.57700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> It has long been known that middle
>> >> and lower level wage earners have not
>> >> done well for decades,
>> >
>> >You would think that with such low pay, they would not be giving up too
>much
>> >if they just quit and went to school to gain a higher paying skill. But,
>> >people on the low end of the wage scale are there for a reason and the
>> >reason is usually because they don't have what it takes to assume a
>little
>> >risk.
>>
>> Yes, that is the way you conservatives comfort yourself -- people in
>> low pay jobs have only themselves or their genes to blame. Helps you
>> to sleep better at night I'm sure, that superior and arrogant way of
>> looking at things.
>
>So, you're suggesting that people ought not work to their maximum wage
>potential? And if they do not, it's somehow the fault of the rest of us?



Who said that? Do you delight in putting words in other's mouths?
>And, somehow, it makes us superior and/or arrogant if we expect them to do
>so?
You are acting superior and arrogant you fool. The most casual
observer can see that.


(That would be news to my sainted grandfather -- there was very
rarely a day that went by that he didn't remind us that if we didn't'
get the best
>education we were capable of, what happened to us in our lives was our own
>fault.)
>

Don't you think most grandfathers tell their children that?
>How is it my fault if a perfectly capable guy stocking at Wal-Mart passes on
>all that free money the goverment puts out for specialty traning and/or
>community college education?


Oh how besieged you are. No one has blamed you. Is that what you are
afraid of, that people will see you for the self centered arrogant
bozo that you are?



>(I've always throught it interesting that at
>the end of each budgetary year, the goverment spends every penny it has
>budgeted for food and child welfare, but there's always leftover funds in
>the educational assistance categories.)
>\
That's a lie.
Thumper


>Mike
>

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