Most American Workers Don't Get They Are Headed For 3rd World Wages.

[TheMastersNemesis]

What American workers need to understand is that corporations don't want to pay Americans any more money than they pay 3rd world workers. Labor regulations and the minimum wage get in their way. The GOP and Trump do not care about workers. All they want is obedient slaves. The GOP's thirst or power "trumps" anything that is good for the country.

Sure the GOP will play the patriot card. Yet they will send young Americans to die to protect the interests of corporations and people like Trump. Trump's kids would never have to serve in a real war where the country's existence is at stake. Dying if for poor and middle class kids. It really is a great con to get poorer Americans to wave the flag and have them die on some foreign battle field.

Ultimately Americans are not the main focus of corporations. We have only 300 plus million on a planet 6.5 billion. WE ARE NOT THE MAJOR MARKET ANY MORE. And it does not matter to US CEO's that their workers work in poverty.

Trump is the rape, pillage and plunder candidate the CEO's and corporations want. Along with the GOP labor will be stripped of all rights. Watch the movie "Metropolis" and that is Trump's and the corporation's goal for US workers. Except that their movie will NOT have the happy ending "Metropolis" does.

I have posted several OP's about "wage parity" with the 3rd world. I am not sure workers get it yet.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Yes we do - it's called TPP

[Egnever]

2. How will the third world slave buy the goods

And why would wage parity be bad?

[Wounded Bear]

3. Americans can be rather dense.....

They don't like to think of themselves as living in poverty. They tend to think they are temporarily distressed millionaires.

[House of Roberts]

4. The US working class

can't pay down the national debt on 'third world wages'. The wealthy and the multinationals have the system set up so they don't pay US taxes, and the poor don't make enough.

[pampango]

5. And the way to avoid that is how FDR did it and how modern progressive countries do it. It ain't

rocket science but practical politics - government support for strong unions, high/progressive taxes, a strong safety net, effective business regulation and international agreements that support such policies.

[Hortensis]

6. Oh, for heavens' sakes, wages are going up

and have been where there is demand for workers.

As for not being a major force, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A NATIONAL ELECTION. On November 8 WE will decide whether we will cut ourselves a bigger share of the pie or continue to leave the cake cutter in the hands of those WE gave it to some time ago.

Either way, it's a huge decision and WE are the MAJOR FORCE making it.

[Enrique]

7. one of the candidates said it openly

he had 12 primary opponents at the time, none of them made an issue out of it.

Bernie was one of the few who commented on it. Others who commented on it did it in a way that confused it with the minimum wage, which deliberately misses the point. He's not talking about the minimum wage, he's talking about all wages.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

Thanks for posting this reminder!

Wages too High.....

[KittyWampus]

9. Do you know what 3rd World Wages actually are? It seems unlikely,

because you'd realize your thread title is hyperbole.

Now, do large businesses want to play as little as possible to wage earners? Yes.

They also want to dismantle Unions completely and externalize as much of their costs as possible.

That said, workers in countries from Bangladesh make about .25 cents an hour.

In Mexico it's 1$.

There's a reason so many people flock to the USA to work and send money home.

Of course that leads to the issue of whether workers coming here from Central/South America, Russia, India etc are part of a healthy society that welcomes newcomers or are they essentially acting as scabs?



Here is a list of minimum wages by country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country