| Joelcool7 said:
1)we would become like China where children would have to start working so the families could get by. Giant factories could open and yes we'd manufacture more stuff here in NA but the quality of life would be shot. My province has the lowest minimum wage in Canada, at 8$ an hour. But with rising gas, food and rental prices even that isn't enough. So if you give people jobs where they earn 4$-6$ an hour or so, how will they break even or make a living? Right now I'm on welfare so to speak because I can't find work, but I'd make less with a job like your suggesting then I would on welfare, infact I wouldn't be able to survive if I worked full time for a job less then minimum wage. Example I spend nearly 400$ a month on groceries, after my rent is taken I am actually in debt, luckily I got a credit card before loosing my job. But what if we didn't get minimum wage, heck it would be impossible to survive. So yes unemployment would drop, but so to would the income of people meaning more poverty. 2)Also unemployment last I checked in Canada was almost back at 8% like it used to be, that isn't that bad considering countries like China, India etc...etc... with low income jobs have much higher unemployment rates. In the end it would be a short term fix, it would harm the population and would increase the poverty rate. Nothing good would come from it. |
1)You know no one of my family or friends or all the people I met ever have to do this for their family..You are generalizing something that only counts for a small part ...How small/big it exactly is no idea but you almost sound like the China of the early 90's...
2) What information are you checking? If you checked a site like CIA world Fact book you see the last years the unemployment numbers are around 4-4,5%...(Talking about China)
