On 27-Sep-2010, bpuharic wrote:

Why should you (or anyone else) get a raise?

because it's good for the economy, moron.

No it isn't, it decreases profits. Raises are granted as a result of
exceptional performance, an increase in responsibility (there's a dirty word
to you) and in socialist structures, inflation.

Ever heard of earning a raise?
What have you done to improve your capabilities?

why? do you think i'm the ENTIRE middle class?

No, you're probably craving a union to protect you.


oh. you cant handle that questions.


americans have a sense of nationalism. europeans do not. ever been to
europe? apparently you haven't.

few countries are more nationalistic than the US. what the other
countries have that the US does NOT is a sense of fairness to middle
class wage earners. america has a LARGE conservative base. which is
pro rich. which is why the middle class is dying.


If you live in the U.S, even now, you wouldn't like living almost
anywhere
as the "middle class" in Europe.

Go spend a night in downtown Frankfurt, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, see the
homes and amenities, the hotel you can occupy for $200 a night. (US$, as
they are worthless). In the U.S. of 25 years ago it would be considered
government housing.

uh...i've been to europe a number of times. i ask again:

why dont they have the huge spread between the middle class and the
rich that we do?

go ahead. answer the question.

They have a narrower (previously) manufacturing base, profits are smaller,
the rewards are fewer. Is that good? That's coming to the U.S. You will get
no more, the owners will be foreign. That OK. The shareholders and managing
directors make excellent incomes, the schlubs, like in your country, are the
bottom of the food chain, as they should be.

ALL is supply and demand. A low supply of unskilled labor increases the pay
as the supply is limited. In countries like red China, labor is plentiful
and in fact, they have an over supply - demand is small compared to the
supply, so wages are crap. With low wages, prices are low, so factory labor
in red Chna allows a similar lifestyle as, for example, labor at Walmart,
when prices nose dive in the U.S. They will. Prices are relative to the
ability to buy. People pay U.S. "normal" auto prices for an Asian econobox
becasue people are willing to pay the price. Demand sets the price of
everything, including wages.


oh. you can't



But it's better there, right?

Speaking of U.S. dollars, Philippine Banks almost never accept U.S.
currency
exchange any more. To get Php you need to use an ATM or find a high rate
dollar exchange booth at "the market." That's impressive.

gee. i was in malaysia 2 years ago and korea this year. used the US
dollar everywhere

Korea has mega billions of exports to the U.S; of course they do. Indonesia
and Malaysia inherited the consumer electronics industry, Japan to Korea to
Malaysia, in the mid to late '90's. The Philippines is not at the economic
scale of Korea and enclaves of Malaysia. Yet. The dollar (US dollar) is
becoming toast. That's not a problem.