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Author: Robert BunnRobert Bunn Date: Oct 18, 2006 20:56
> Robert Bunn wrote:
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>> Competition for minimum-wage jobs is already pretty keen,
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> Um... where?
Here in central New York, anyway. I held one until about a year ago, and
the general pattern was that you had to work pretty hard to keep them,
because you could always be replaced by any of the hundreds of other
interchangeable cogs out there waiting to do your work. There is
certainly always a steady stream of applicants, even at places that
aren't hiring.
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Author: Day BrownDay Brown Date: Oct 19, 2006 11:19
RG wrote:
> just give the woman an IQ test. If it's below the mean, sterilize her.
> Then she and the stupid men she would have chosen as partners can have
> all the sex they want and not burden society.
Mite wanna crunch the numbers on that. I dunno what tubals cost these
days. But archeology provided an alternative by bringing modern forensic
tools into obscure Transylvanian museums and identifying the residues in
pots used by ancient witches.
Turns out that there are lotsa plants and fungi that evolved a defense
against herbivores developing a taste for them by causing sterility and
abortions. So, there's a *reason* "Blessed Thistle" is blessed, and why
"Bachelor Button" is so named. I also know of wild yam, Cornflower, and
Motherwort.
the abortion debate is over. Modern 'witches' have found out about this,
and are in email with each other on private lists, and now provide
abortions on demand. No appointment, no clinic, no protester line, no
adoption sermon, no doctor, no bill, no prescription, no problem with
pharmacists, no parental consent.
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Author: MPMP Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:01
[...]
> The simple economics of the minimum wage are that the "equilibrium" or
> market-clearing wage - the place where the supply and demand curves
> for labor intersect - is already above $7.25. Therefore, raising the
> minimum wage to this level will have virtually no effect on average
> wages or employment.
Gross economic ignorance. If this *average* market-clearing wage
applied to *every* sector of the economy, then there would (as the
candidate said) be no need for a minimum wage. In fact, some jobs are
simply not worth $7.25/hour, or even $5/hour, for an employer ... and
the higher the miminum wage, the more unemployment as employers either
squeeze more productivity out of fewer such employees, automate, or
leave the job undone.
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Author: Robert BunnRobert Bunn Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:42
> Robert Bunn wrote:
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>> * If I am all of the manufacturers in the country, then I produce all
>> the goods produced in the country.
>> * If a dollar is spent on goods manufactured in the country, I get
>> that
>> dollar.
>> * At my current level of production, therefore, I get all dollars
>> spent
>> on goods manufactured in this country.
>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, I will still
>> produce
>> all goods produced in the country.
>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, therefore, I will
>> still get all dollars spent on goods manufactured in this country.
>> * I can capture all dollars spent on goods manufactured in the
>> country
>> at my current level of production, regardless of how many actual ...
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Author: NospamNospam Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:44
MP wrote:
> Gross economic ignorance. If this *average* market-clearing wage
> applied to *every* sector of the economy, then there would (as the
> candidate said) be no need for a minimum wage. In fact, some jobs are
> simply not worth $7.25/hour, or even $5/hour, for an employer ... and
> the higher the miminum wage, the more unemployment as employers either
> squeeze more productivity out of fewer such employees, automate, or
> leave the job undone.
So you believe that they can squeeze more even now and they don't due to
their charitable souls ?
Do you want to buy an acre of land on (former planet ) Pluto ?
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Author: roylsroyls Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:45
On 19 Oct 2006 15:01:26 -0700, "MP" rocketmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>> The simple economics of the minimum wage are that the "equilibrium" or
>> market-clearing wage - the place where the supply and demand curves
>> for labor intersect - is already above $7.25. Therefore, raising the
>> minimum wage to this level will have virtually no effect on average
>> wages or employment.
>
>Gross economic ignorance.
Yep. Yours.
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Author: NospamNospam Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:46
RG wrote:
> just give the woman an IQ test. If it's below the mean,
> sterilize her. Then she and the stupid men she would have
> chosen as partners can have all the sex they want and not burden
> society.
But if you do that, in 18 years there will be no new Republican nor
Libertarians voters. Do we really want to destroy the democratic
competition ?
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Author: maxweltonmaxwelton Date: Oct 19, 2006 15:55
Robert Bunn wrote:
>> Robert Bunn wrote:
>>
>>> * If I am all of the manufacturers in the country, then I produce all
>>> the goods produced in the country.
>>> * If a dollar is spent on goods manufactured in the country, I get
>>> that
>>> dollar.
>>> * At my current level of production, therefore, I get all dollars
>>> spent
>>> on goods manufactured in this country.
>>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, I will still
>>> produce
>>> all goods produced in the country.
>>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, therefore, I will
>>> still get all dollars spent on goods manufactured in this country.
>>> * I can capture all dollars spent on goods manufactured in the
>>> country ...
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Author: Robert BunnRobert Bunn Date: Oct 19, 2006 16:09
> Robert Bunn wrote:
>>> Robert Bunn wrote:
>>>
>>>> * If I am all of the manufacturers in the country, then I produce
>>>> all
>>>> the goods produced in the country.
>>>> * If a dollar is spent on goods manufactured in the country, I get
>>>> that
>>>> dollar.
>>>> * At my current level of production, therefore, I get all dollars
>>>> spent
>>>> on goods manufactured in this country.
>>>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, I will still
>>>> produce
>>>> all goods produced in the country.
>>>> * If a larger number of dollar bills are available, therefore, I ...
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Author: Robert BunnRobert Bunn Date: Oct 19, 2006 16:10
> On 19 Oct 2006 15:01:26 -0700, "MP" rocketmail.com> wrote:
>>>If this *average* market-clearing wage
>>applied to *every* sector of the economy, then there would (as the
>>candidate said) be no need for a minimum wage. In fact, some jobs are
>>simply not worth $7.25/hour, or even $5/hour, for an employer ... and
>>the higher the miminum wage, the more unemployment as employers either
>>squeeze more productivity out of fewer such employees, automate, or
>>leave the job undone.
>
> But that claim has been falsified empirically.
Like in California?
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