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   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 30/08/2013 8:46 PM, ConɀRConɀ wrote:   
      
   > Alberta minimum wage still lowest in Canada despite rise   
      
   Hey fleabagger, our job market with elss taxes and more for the people   
   is good enough that not many actually make minimum wage. Perhaps a few   
   high risk freshly release jailbirds, but if they last a month it goes up   
   quick.   
      
   Floor rate for no skills is pretty much $14/hr if you are at all   
   literate to G6, can show up sober, not to fat as not to move, don't   
   smell too bad, and $14 is floor rate.  Add if you make G12, and add more   
   if you get a trade skill.   
      
   I know a illiterate painter that makes $100k year.  Works 9 hours a day   
   6 days a week in the summer, and elss in the winter by choice.  He works   
   fast and good, so people want him and pay a premium to get him.   
      
   But he is no liberal arts sissy a whining.   
      
   Myth: Government can improve wages.   
   Truth: Government forcing wages up beyond what people are worth means no   
   jobs at all.   
      
   Best employment environments I have been in are where the local economy   
   is profitable, running well, businesses make money so they want to hire   
   more people for competative wages and conditions.   
      
   Part of why I left Ontario, all I could find in 1980 was employers   
   saying, lucky you have a zero minimum wage job.  So I left.  Still is a   
   zero economy in that town.  But now retired early.  Why work for the   
   government as slave?   
   --   
   Socialist-statism corruption is a great idea so long as the credit is   
   good and other people pay for it. When the credit runs out and those   
   that pay for it leave, they can all share having nothing but   
   unemployment, debt and discontentment.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)