Minimum wage is an incentive for companies to move their remaining manufacturing jobs overseas where fixed labor costs are less expensive.
Seriously your really think so?
Let me get this straight manufacturing jobs in America,
which always pay higher than minimum wage, get forced over-seas by minimum wage increases.
So if you pay a manufactured worker $15-35 dollars an hour, how does increasing minimum wage from $5 to $7.50 effect that?
We can't compete with oversea slave wages by decreasing our wages. All that will happen is illegals will come here take the jobs and then pack 8 families into a ranch style home.
Rather we need to do is:
(1) Reduce counter-productive overburdening regulations and expensive red-tape to enter many industries,
(2) Just say no to cap and trade,
(3) Take power away from the Unions (they have a place, but they do much more harm than good nowadays),
(4) End employer based health insurance (if you don't think this puts our companies at a huge disadvantage then you're retarded),
(5) End the high way robbery Federal and State Pension Plans
(6) And MOST IMPORTANTLY, enact the Fair Tax to replace income, corporate, sales, payroll and capital gains. (at the very least reduce the corporate tax, eliminate the small business killing payroll tax)
(7) Reduce our energy costs - That is a GIGANTIC cost to business, especially in the manufacturing sector. Cutting this cost is big!
(8) Consumers Should (and we are starting to)SEEK OUT AND BUY AMERICAN more - I aways look were things are made from. I specifically buy my jeans from Levi. Check clothes you can find alot made right here in the states. I drive my wife nutz, because I always buy Little Tike toys for all the birthday parties my kids go to -
http://www.littletikes.com/ - EVERYONE SHOULD PURCHASE A LOT OF THE HIGH QUALITY LITTLE TIKES TOYS!!! We should all support this American company!
And I go to sites like this to buy American Made Toys -
http://www.toysmadeinamerica.com/ - surprising the prices are better than Toys-r-us and non-surprisingly the quality is better. Buy American online, get better prices and hire quality.
