The GOP's plan to gut the EPA

[Old Rocks]

Another point here, if it is a job that has to be done, then it should pay a living wage. If that requires that the CEOs make a few less millions a year so the people that actually do the work get a living wage, so be it.

 

[Oddball]

In recent years the Republican Party has defined itself as staunchly anti-EPA and generally anti–environmental protection. Whether that means opposing legislation to curb climate change or new rules to promote energy-efficient lightbulbs, if it can be considered green, then the majority of the GOP is almost always against it. That antigreen ideology has only been stiffened by the rise of the Tea Party, and Republican presidential candidates on the campaign trail are fighting to see who can come across as more hostile to environmental regulations.

So Newt Gingrich — who once wrote a book called A Contract with the Earth, all the way back in 2007 — and Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann have both called for abolishing the EPA, while Mitt Romney has come under intense criticism from the likes of Rush Limbaugh for daring to admit that man-made climate change might just actually exist. Sarah Palin summed up the prevailing GOP attitude when she had this to say while attending a motorcycle rally at the start of her recent cross-country bus tour: "I love the smell of emissions."

The GOP's Hidden Debt-Deal Agenda: Gut the EPA - TIME

We should be so lucky.

Unfortunately, repubs are themselves too gutless to actually follow through.

 

[flacaltenn]

so the answer to compete with China is have a race to the bottom?

No the answer to how to compete with China is HERE ---->

http://www.usmessageboard.com/econo...dead-and-maybe-our-hopes-too.html#post3943059

If we don't get there first -- nothing else matters..

 

[Jarhead]

Oh my, socialism. Pay workers a living wage? Pure Marxism.

A teenage worker at McDonalds must implement customer service skills.....be able to understand and speak english. Be able to understand what a non english speaking customer wants. Be able to use a cash register. Be able to count out change correctly.

A worker on an assembly line needs to know whcih way to turn a wrench as he tightens the same bolt over and over again.

Exactly why should that assembly line worker get more than the teen working at McDonalds?

What a fuckup dummy you are. Did you ever do anything other than clean the latrines.

If it is a bolt that is turned in the same place repeatedly, a machine does it. Apparently you have never worked in a real manufacturing environment in a modern plant.

yo...

I was using a basic example.
I have probably forgotten more about CNC than you will ever know.

So a man hits a button to turn on the lathe and shuts it off when the brass bar is completely cut up.
Where is his skill that requires a higher wage than a McDaonalds cashier?

 

[Jarhead]

Another point here, if it is a job that has to be done, then it should pay a living wage. If that requires that the CEOs make a few less millions a year so the people that actually do the work get a living wage, so be it.

or those people dont have to take the job.