Re: Wages Up by Smallest Amount in Nine Years

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:59:18 GMT, "MichaelC"
<mikecraney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Thumper" <jaylsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:feevt1l52tl6nf3tv8h7hlc5c43didnifd@xxxxxxxxxx
>> 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.
>
>>From your own jaded perspective, perhaps. However, not everyone is so
>closeminded.
>>
>>
>> (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?
>
>One would hope.
>
>> >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?
>
>See above.
>>
>>
>>
>> >(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.
>
>Not talking about Pell grants -- talking about retraining programs.
>
>Mike
>
You're full of crap
Thumper
.

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