Re: Wages Vs Prices


"jim blair" <jeblair@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "The Trucker" <mikcob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "jim blair" <jeblair@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> On 16 Apr 2005 11:06:00 -0700, jeblair@xxxxxxxx (jim blair) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >"The Trucker" <mikcob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >
>> >> >>....If we need more nurses then we
>> >> >> should pay them more so that more people will choose nursing as
>> >> >> a career. That is how the market is supposed to work.
>> >> >
>> >
>> > jeb:
>> >
>> >> >Strange thing is that nurses are well paid.
>
> Roy:
>> >>
>> >> ?? Really? Compared to what? Corporate CEOs average what, 100 times
>> >> as much as a nurse. Or is it 1000 times yet?
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Yes, "well paid" does depend on "compared to what"--or "who" in this
>> > case. I mean US nurses are well paid as compared to 98+% of the
>> > people in the world. Or is that 99+%?
>> >
>> > They (and also US engineers) are well paid and have good job prospects
>> > as compared to other college graduates.
>> >
>> > I agree that they are not well compensated as compared to NBA players
>> > or to the New York Yankees, or to Fortune 500 CEO's.
>
> Trucker:
>>
>> We need to export CEO jobs and we need am H!B system for
>> CEO's and other corporate officers.
>
> Hi,
>
> That may be next. But didn't some large Japanese corporation just
> hire an American CEO?

Yep! One down and about 10 thousand to go. We must be sure that
his entire family goes with him and that he divests himself of all land
in the USA. As they all leave I will be cheering.

>> >>
>> >> >But college students in
>> >> >the US are still majoring in Art History and English Lit and in
>> >> >various ethnic studies, and then complaining about how they can't find
>> >> >jobs when they graduate. Nurses have LOTS of job offers.
>> >>
>> >> But not at a wage that will get more Americans to become nurses.
>
> jeb:
>> >
>> > But at wages that attract nurses from all over the world, and that
>> > attract students from all over the world to our schools.
>> >
>> > But it is a good question: why don't more US students major in math
>> > and science?
>>
>> This has been explained to you many times, Blair. But as Roy L
>> says "you refuse to know it". It pays much better to be a CEO
>> or a manager. Scientists and engineers do not get much pay
>> when compared to the shysters.
>
> But you can't major in "shyster" or in CEO. And having a science
> degree does not exclude you from being either of the above.

MBA, law, = shyster major.

> But your point seems to be that minimum wage jobs in the US pay too
> much. Why spend the time and effort stydying science or math when you
> can get by very well without do that? What I call the "Las Vegas
> Syndrome". Vegas has the highest school drop out rate in the country.
> They say it is because kids can make BIG BUCKS working strip casino
> jobs for the tips, so who needs an education?

more noise....

> We need an even larger pay gap between important jobs like medicine
> and engineering and the minimum wage or other low pay jobs. Americans
> are just "too equal" ;-)

Yep... He's a Republican.

>>
>> Remaining Republican spin deleted
>>
>> ---
>
> And again, I am not a Republican.
>

Believe me, Blair, you are absolutely a Republican. Some are
gay and don't know it just like you are a Republican and
pretend not to know it.


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