Ha, the right wingnuts just talk to themselves and yell at the rest of us it seems. EVERYTHING they say about how disastrous it would be to pay somebody enough to live with dignity is just their own mythology. Case in point: Denmark
In Denmark, $20 dollars and hour is the minimum wage negotiated in a collective bargaining agreement. Oh the horror, a $5.37 Big Mac.
Denmark also provides free health care coverage to all residents, so minimum wage doesn't lock a person out of hospitals. Denmark has the highest income taxes in the world, but it also enjoys low unemployment and steady economic growth. has one of the lowest poverty rates in the world,... low unemployment, a steadily growing economy and almost no corruption.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123126942
Here is a great line that I enjoyed immensely:
Economists debate whether Denmark is a model economy, or just a lucky one. Those are the same well paid economist bastards that nearly brought our economic system down at the end of the last decade by creating models that jiggered interest rates . Now they are scratching their heads and trying to deny that there are alternatives to the dystopian system that they see as the only possible solution.
And another thing: Why do we bash workers for accepting low wages and ignore the absolutely ham handed and lazy management that can't seem to add value, only cut cost? Referring to the posting by
@BDOGKush for Forbes:
Lets say this again: "Over the past few years, these workers, as a group, not only have not earned a raise, but they are getting paid more for doing less"
Fuck you Forbes. Productivity is something that managers are responsible for. Workers show up and do the jobs that management is supposed to be in charge of.
