There Are Nearly Six Times More Minimum Wage Workers Today Than In 2007

Im sure the inflated union wages of 30 bucks an hour, didnt have anything to do with it either.

 

Nope. Because even at 15 bucks an hour we wouldn't be able to compete with 15 bucks a month.

 

No, you're posting extrusions from your ass. No facts to taint your bull(*)(*)(*)(*), eh?

 

oh I dont know about all that. Mexico in particular has very big issues that cause a lot of problems that those companies would not have to deal with if those plants were in America.

Like truck loads of parts heading to plants getting high jacked and held for ransom.

Workers getting beheaded after work

etc

 

You're delusional.

 

Yawn... you forgot to mention how easy it is to not get counted in the min-wage-employer stats by paying a nickel more per hour.

 

So you believe all illegals get the federal minimum wage?

 

No, Im educated. How come you call me delusional, when you dont have any idea what your typing about?

Private eyes help Houston firms navigate Mexico mayhem



Despite regions of lawlessness, where politicians and police can't be trusted, Houston companies continue to do billions of dollars of business in Mexico - everything from manufacturing computers to exploring for energy.

But as they make decisions about where it's safe to operate, which highways are less likely to have trucks hijacked, and how to avoid kidnappings and extortions, companies need eyes and ears on the ground to guide them.

A steady stream of private intelligence firms, several with Houston ties, are answering that call by providing information that businesses are hard pressed to get but need more than ever.

"They'll say, 'I need to know who is operating outside my gates,' " said Gary Hale, owner of Grupo Savant, a firm with offices here and in Washington, D.C.

"They do not know what is going on, the security situation, the modus operandi used by criminal organizations," said Hale, who retired in 2010 as intelligence chief for the Drug Enforcement Administration's Houston Division.

Threats vary throughout the nation, depending on who the criminals are and what business is being done. A lot is on the line - $31 billion in trade in 2011 between the Houston region and Mexico, according to the Greater Houston Partnership.

A contentious, nerve-wracking 150-mile stretch of northeastern Mexican highway slices through the nation's latest oil plays and includes operations by Houston energy giants such as Halliburton and Schlumberger. While convenient for reaching the U.S. border, the roadway cuts through a dicey drug-cartel turf war that has spun off an array of criminality and makes passage risky in the day and far worse at night.

 

I obviously disagree with this statement.

I've read your posts on here. I don't respect your opinion enough to have any debate with you that I consider worth my time.

 

In reference to the title of this thread, all we can say in thank you Obama.

 

K then, spew your bs at someone dumb enough to believe you.

 

Obama is only doing what the Federal Reserve Combine tells him to do. The Fed has been trying to get inflation heated up for over four years, so that it can start soaking up the trillions of extra, worthless dollars it pulled out of thin air to stuff into banks and prop up the stock market. But this socialist version of "trickle-down" hasn't worked. Everybody is still hoarding cash, including banks and corporations, or, they're living paycheck-to-paycheck, and don't have "a pot or a window" anyway. The remainder, who live off of welfare-suck don't count because they are mathematically unimportant, even though the Obama regime did everything it could to channel as much more National Debt money as possible into their Welfare State.

Will things change under Janet Yellen as "Führerin of the Fed"? Nope. She's a Bernanke clone, minus the beard. She, too, will continue to push for inflation, and here's the main point... when the Obama handpuppet jacks up the minimum wage on Federal contractors by 28.3%, the spillover effect is powerful! Oh, soon everybody will be raising hell that all minimum wages need to be jacked up nearly 30% just for people to "keep up". THE PRICES OF EVERYTHING YOU BUY GET JACKED UP 30%, TOO (or more)!

Oooh! Suddenly, that doesn't seem like quite such a great idea, does it...? Especially not when businesses and corporations "go for the throat" and begin off-loading even more people because their labor costs are also skyrocketing, at "minimum wage" and all up through the wage-chain! It's a win-win for them! They get rid of headcount, company-provided healthcare, and survive the river ride down the economic rapids, hoping to make more money than ever for themselves and their stockholders! Prediction: ten more years of this kind of a ****ed-up economic "guidance" from the Fed and we're going to be a society exactly like Mexico! There will be the fabulously rich, and the dirt-scraping poor.

One last effort to reach to mentally "challenged"... How much good would your 30% pay raise do for you when the price of everything you buy also increases at least 30%? You'll still be in the same hole you're in right now... and possibly without a job at all....

 

I agree, printing money to pay our bills is economic suicide, so much so, some might think theyre destroying America on purpose.

 

I believe Obama wants to make them legal citizens ensuring them all the legal protections afforded all American citizens. On the other hand the Republicans continue to block any advance forward on protecting illegal aliens and providing companies an illegal but cheap labor force.

There should be no cheap labor pool in this country that businesses can exploit.

 

Illegal aliens shouldnt even be in this country.

We have laws against illegal aliens entering the country.

obama refused to enforce the laws of the land, and that is the primary duty of the president of the united states.

If congress changes the laws, then obama is obligated to enforce those new laws, until that happens obama should do his duty as he swore to.

 

When Obama took office there was somewhere between 5-10 million illegals in the U.S., so he is the one who created this problem?

The republicans have done nothing to either ensure that no more people come to the U.S. illegally nor have they stemmed the tied of illegals that are encouraged to come to the U.S. by not enforcing laws to keep companies from hiring them.

 

I never claimed bush was good at immigration either. He did try and build a fence thought