Cable News Ratings for Thursday, December 27, 2012

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1. Hillbilly

   Posted December 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM

   Matthew – The Abridged Version: In a nation with an annual GDP in excess of $16 trillion, we should be perfectly capable of paying a full time worker, even in the very lowliest of positions, a wage that allows them to make their family secure; not just a wage and benefits to meet their basic needs, but a wage and benefits that gives you a hedge against disaster, should the worst happen. Few working class families today feel such security.

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   Who determines what wage is a decent/secure living?

   These upcoming numbers are for visual reasons only.

   I could live on $8 an hour in Hillbilly Holler, but not the upper East side in NY City. Should pay be based on family size? That $8 an hour could support me & my wife nicely. Then if you have a family of four, that same $8 an hour wouldn’t cut it.

   Let’s say we both work at Burger King. We have the same job. (making french fries) I’m married with 3 kids, you are single. Should i be paid more?

   Now us evolved apes on this spinning rock (Gabriel speak ) don’t all behave the same or have the same morals. A decent wage ($8 per hour) might be OK for say a preacher’s life style, but not a construction worker’s life style. IMO the “decent wage” is to subjective for anybody to decide. Is having a widget a basic need? Some would say yes, others would say no.

   Lastly let’s say Faith3 get’s to decide what the wage is. Does this wage cause the cost of a service or product to go up? If yes, then who pays for the increase? The provider/producer? Pass it on to the customer? Split the difference? I can understand a minimum wage, but don’t see how you have a “decent living” wage & benefits standard.

   C’ya

2. usa8888

   Posted December 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM

   Fox Cable ratings continue to slide and MSNBC’s are rising steadily. Msnbc nows owns the demo and beats Hannity and Van Sustern. Billo hangs on with a very old audience….

   This just in: Right wingers in the House reject fiscal cliff agreement that moderate Repubs and Dems support. So the right wingers will be given the chance to vote against the middle class tax cuts after the new year, thus increasing their chances of losing even more right wing seats in the House than they lost this year.

   One right winger who was defeated this November said a few minutes ago on CNN that he wants to roll back all the government programs created in the 30′s and 50′s (Social Sevurity and Medicare)–this guy is too dumb to relize that is why he was was not re-elceted. People love these programs and they are working very well–have for decades, but the radical right wing has no compassion for common people and no knowledge of economics, and doesn’t get it…….

3. Faith3

   Posted December 31, 2012 at 2:03 PM

   Well we are almost into a new year. Thank you for the well wishes PaulG and wishing well to you too. Hillbilly, have you ever heard of the dangers of a four hour thing when taking those drugs? Get yourself to the nearest ER. Nancy, I keep missing you. I’m enjoying Apple and 1966′s videos. I hope everyone left, right and center has a Happy New Year!

   I can’t stay long today but for Cathy,
   the share of US GDP going to wages and salaries has fallen to about 43% since 1970, the slice going to companies in after tax profits surged doubling to 12% since 2005 is a fact. How it is perceived is entirely up to each individual person. If you want to say it is due to workers being less skilled only tells me this is not how CEOs are supposed to be compensated. Supposedly, we’ve been lead to believe that they are compensated largely due to making their work force better trained, more innovative and more skilled/valuable but I can agree that is NOT necessarily happening. Those statistics I gave tell a different story. Instead, some are getting compensated by laying off workers, offshoring, lowing wages and other tactics that really aren’t good for the American work force or the future of the workers in this country. Our economic growth is largely due to the financialization of the economic system. I have often wondered if the US hadn’t been compensated by easy credit before the market meltdown, would economic growth have halted much earlier? I believe the only thing that held up the economy in 40 years of stagnated wage growth is the easy availability of credit in a whole new economic system which changed after the Bretton Wood System was fully dismantled in the early 70s. Like I made mention, we can either justify our current system, modify it or go toward a paradigm shift. Those are the choices. If you want to know where I personally stand it is with the last two and not at all with the first one.

4. usnretiredx2

   Posted January 3, 2013 at 8:15 AM

   Test.

5. d.d.

   Posted February 4, 2013 at 8:49 AM

   Letmethink,

   Ask Apple for help on BevAg. She had one long last post…I can’t find anything after the end of December , for, nobody know this site like Apple.