| Euphoria14 said: You don't just hire for the sake of hiring though. People aren't entitled to a job if the position isn't there to be filled. We need to find ways to create new business. Find ways to bring manufacturing jobs back.
How? I have no clue. I am the wrong person to give an answer on that. |
Here's one thought:
Businesses will hire if demand for their service goes up. How does demand go up? More customers with the purchasing power to consider their products and services. How do we get more customers with higher purchasing power? Increase their pay.
What people don't seem to realize is that if fast food workers were to get paid say $15 an hour, those $8 extra an hour doesn't disapear, it will be put right back into the economy (and in most cases almost instantly) and drive profits in other sectors and eventually those extra $8 will end up where it always does: paying for someone's new yacht. The difference is only how many people those dollars touch on the way to that yacht.
That is the difference between the successful "raising the floor" economies in Europe and the "race to the bottom" mentality in the USA.
