Moonglow
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- Jun 27, 2011
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The invasion of southern labour 15 years ago drove our wages down in skilled trades..Don't think that the market is a fair place, there are other variables which occur..Minimum wage increase since 1990 is around 20% the living cost increase in nearly 70%. Is your math better than your reading comprehension?Good for you. I made a generalized statement about our country over all that you can't refute.Living costs have raised singnificantly over the last several decades and wages have not been raised proportionally... until people are making a living wage, or living costs drop, we will continue to have rampant poverty.
Where I am from 1 in 3 people live under the fed poverty level.
My pay has increased significantly. There's a reason for it. I've raised my skill level to offer something worth more money. Same for my wife.
I would be more impressed with your story if you started out with nothing and pulled yourself out of poverty. But I have a feeling mommy and daddy paid your way into adulthood, Mr personal responsibility.
I'm not the only one and be both know generalized statements are false.
Since you have that feeling, why don't you prove it, asshole. Claims like that should come with something to back it up. Do you have anything?
I didn't come out of poverty nor was I handed things like you falsely claim. I didn't live in poverty because my parents practiced what they taught me and their parents before them did the same thing.
I'll find you a link after work.
Don't waste your time.
When the skills to do a job in 1990 is the same skill level required to do the same job in 2017, your wages aren't going to increase very much. You blame it on anything but the ones offering minimum skills. Here's a novel idea. Improve your skills and be shocked as just how much greater your wage percentage increases over living costs increases. That's what I did. That's what my wife did. That's what many people do. The only ones whining are those that maintain low level skills and do nothing to increase them. And the idiots that think someone with $5/hour skills and something a monkey could be trained to do deserve more than $5/hour.
Get to work. Your minimum wage, low skilled job is waiting on you. I'll have fries with that.