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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Lord Skimper   » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:03 pm

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How Canada views the USA. Capitalism at its core run amuck, too many handguns, too many crazy people, too much debt. Too much globalization.
Too much political "Romanish corruption"

Not enough health care, not enough education in some areas, weak beer.

Too much like Toronto.

Too much like the Solaran league in attitude.

Too much taxes.

Good neighbours, generally folk are friendly, outside the big cities. Except for capital punishment and all the hand guns, Texas is great.

People are friendly, nice, but a little dim on the topic of world events or geography.

See youtube Rick Mercer talking to Americans. Yes we have dumb people too but not usually at our universities.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Daryl   » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:19 pm

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A couple of years ago there was some consternation here when a US think tank declared that Australia was the best place in the world to live. We were concerned about an influx of gun loving yanks, but one newspaper explained that there would be many confused, overweight, Hawaiian shirt wearing people waiting at the Austrian border.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by namelessfly   » Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:03 am

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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:02 pm

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::a Naughty Moose wonders::
Do they have cars in London? 8-)

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Michael Everett wrote:[snip - htm] I got asked if we had cars in England.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by namelessfly   » Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:51 pm

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Howard T. Map-addict wrote:::a Naughty Moose wonders::
Do they have cars in London? 8-)

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Michael Everett wrote:[snip - htm] I got asked if we had cars in England.
[snip - htm]



Many Americans are accustomed to our liberals lecturing us about how we are so unsophisticated compared to enlightened Europeans because we are so dependant on our cars rather than mass transit. We are encouraged to believe that car ownership is very uncommon in Europe which is of course untrue.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Daryl   » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:59 am

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Simple answer to the topic is this news story -http://www.news.com.au/business/your-business/fast-food-strikes-across-us-cities-show-the-american-dream-is-becoming-a-nightmare/story-fn9evb64-1226777546920

Basically about the current fast food worker strike to get their wage above $7.45 an hour. Those in the developed world go "what?" when reading this, along with the companys' advice to employees about bringing in food to share, and cutting their meals into smaller portions to eke it out.
Sorry, but the tea party talk about encouraging people to be aspirational, and strive to climb up the social ladder is just propaganda when normal decent people are treated like this.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by PeterZ   » Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:08 am

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There you go, letting your prejudices get the better of you again, Daryl. ;)

Those that agree with TEA Party ideals are hardly monolithic on this issue. The only thing they are near monolithic about are regulation and taxes. Most would agree have too many and too much respectively. I doubt TEA Party members would generate anything close to consensus on this issue.

Personally, I would add that raising the minimum wage would reduce the number of jobs available. Since most minimum wage earners are young and without skills, these jobs are more of a paid training program for learning fob skills. In the US we have seen increased unemployment following increases in the minimum wage. That increase in unimployment hits the younger workforce hardest. In New York City, unemployment of 16-19 year olds has run above 30% since 2009. The younger these young poeple begin working, the more likely they will continue being employed throughout their life. This was found by the New York City Workforce Investment Board.

So, raising the min wage has downsides. Why is this now becomming a discussion topic? Perhaps to increase Obama's falling poll numbers? Falling poll numbers that are especially pronounced in the younger age groups. Many of these people believe they will benefit from a higher wage. They might not realize that fewer youngsters would have jobs at all.

Also, unions set their wages based on a premium on the minimum wage. They are all in for raising the min wage. Youth unemployment doesn't hit union members who are more skilled and experienced workers.


Daryl wrote:Simple answer to the topic is this news story -http://www.news.com.au/business/your-business/fast-food-strikes-across-us-cities-show-the-american-dream-is-becoming-a-nightmare/story-fn9evb64-1226777546920

Basically about the current fast food worker strike to get their wage above $7.45 an hour. Those in the developed world go "what?" when reading this, along with the companys' advice to employees about bringing in food to share, and cutting their meals into smaller portions to eke it out.
Sorry, but the tea party talk about encouraging people to be aspirational, and strive to climb up the social ladder is just propaganda when normal decent people are treated like this.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by KNick   » Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:27 am

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Two additional things to consider with regards to a raise in the minimum wage and unionization.

1. Union dues will eat up any pay raise and more, meaning minimum wage workers would actually make less after joining the union.

2. The largest part of the cost of an employee pay raise is not the employee portion. It is the additional taxes, fees and premiums. For instance, in Montana, the absolute lowest cost to a business of a $1.00/HR raise is $1.53. That is for a business in the lowest bracket of Workman's Comp. insurance. The highest bracket raises this to about $2.58. Since these are entry level jobs, the new employees just don't rate higher pay/hr. They simply can't generate enough income to cover their own expenses.
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cars in England re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Sat Dec 07, 2013 2:33 pm

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Nameless,
I believe that that Naughty Moose was alluding
to a recent law banning cars from central London.

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namelessfly wrote:
Naughty Moose wrote:::a Naughty Moose wonders::
Do they have cars in London? 8-)

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Michael Everett had written:
[snip - htm] I got asked if we had cars in England.
[snip - htm]



Many Americans are accustomed to our liberals lecturing us about how we are so unsophisticated compared to enlightened Europeans because we are so dependant on our cars rather than mass transit. We are encouraged to believe that car ownership is very uncommon in Europe which is of course untrue.
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Re: How the world views the USA.
Post by Spacekiwi   » Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:53 pm

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Just as an interesting aside about the minimum wage, I earn US$13.70 an hour, as a normal checkout operator at a supermarket. at a normal working year of 2000 hours, that's US 28,500 a year or the median income in the us. By contrast, thats about 70% of the median income in NZ. Our pay for underage employees getting training is US$8.30 an hour, so even underage workers here get paid better than many adults in the US.

As for union dues, here they are set to around 6 to 10 dollars a week for my fulltime employees, and 5 for me being a part-time. the max level of dues if for the full time advanced mechanics, and is around $40 NZ, which is still around an hours pay a week for them. So somethings weird with your unions if the 3 to 5% pay rise to join a union is negated by fees.
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