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An Unfortunate Education
It seems that the call to action in my last post actually worked and drew in some comments (thank you for that!). As promised, I will continue using this blog for a while longer. If I keep getting comments (and maybe some comment debates) I will keep posting. This post is a bit long so I apologize for that–I will keep future posts shorter. Without further adieu, I present to you my first actual post.
I shall dispense with the names to protect the innocent (and moronic) but will say that my cousin is in the 7th grade at White Pine Middle School here in good ol’ Saginaw Michigan. While spending an evening conversing with the family over pizza, my cousin and her friend began discussing their social studies class woes. Apparently, the teacher finds it appropriate to degrade the class and one day even wrote “worst class ever” on the chalkboard. He has even said he “feels sorry for this country because you kids are the future.” I’m fairly certain this is no way to treat 7th graders. That seems like something we can all agree on. Although these types of comments are disturbing, something just as disturbing is what he is teaching to our youth.
During one discussion the teacher proclaimed that outsourcing is bad and minimum wage is good. I realize everyone is entitled to his or her opinion but really? Nobody wants to pay high prices if they can avoid it. If a company can use outsourcing to give you a lower cost, is that not a good thing? And don’t start with domestic job loss. What the teacher was actually referring to was offshoring although he incorrectly labeled it as outsourcing, but I digress. Yes, an individual may suffer temporary displeasure from outsourcing/offshoring but by saving money the business can lower costs. This can result in actually saving jobs because the company may have otherwise had to fire employees that they couldn’t afford. Outsourcing/offshoring is a good thing and needs to be controlled by the free market.
What about minimum wage? By forcing higher minimum wages the government actually stops businesses from hiring more employees. Let’s pretend that minimum wage is $10 and you, as a business, have $10 available to hire help. You can only afford to hire one person because of the government mandated minimum wage. If there were no minimum wage and the free market determined that fair compensation for that position was actually $5, you could now afford to hire 2 employees. With the government forced minimum wage you were able to hire one less person which resulted in one more unemployed individual. If that person was willing to work for $5 why shouldn’t they be allowed to? By the government stepping in and “helping” people they are actually hurting others.
No wonder people vote the way they do–they are being fed this sort garbage in middle school when they are just plain too young to know any better.
Originally writing this post in the heat of the moment may have resulted in misspellings, grammar mistakes, or just plain hard-to-follow thoughts. So, how about a few videos in case my incoherent rambling didn’t make sense.
John Stossel – The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Work
It is a shame that the future of our country is being taught by such narrow minded individuals… Comments?
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