Posted by M Moline Fan on April 11, 2008 at 18:48:55 from (209.143.60.173):
In Reply to: Re: OT - Economics posted by Kelly C on April 11, 2008 at 17:57:30:
"just going to have to buckle down and earn it". Reminds me, last evening I was watching the Glenn Beck show on CNN. He had a guest who talked about the cost pressures on airlines. Then he said some airline (co)-pilots start as low as $20,000 a year. Glenn Beck almost fell off his chair- "you mean to tell me there can be a pilot behind the door of the plane I'm on that's only being paid a $20,000 salary?" The guest said "that's right".
That also reminds me, listening to Beck on the radio, one day being informal, he messed up a commercial he was reading. He joked "there goes $10,000". No doubt that's his fee for doing a commercial. Things are way out of wack.
And- for young guys starting out around here, there's few opportunities. You mentioned being a CNC operator. I began life farming, then schooled as a tool and die maker and gave up farming. The factory where I trained is empty and rusting away, as is the Chrysler factory where I worked the majority of years. The factories that are left in this area pressure workers to work for less than a living wage- ala Mexico, or they'll close. They do eventually anyhow.
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