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Originally Posted by BigDawgInLakeDenham
So you believe it's solely union membership related and not the demographic makeup of the population? Would you expect these populations to be conditioned to actually work for a living after Johnson's Great Society Program??? I'll answer for you..absolutely not. They get paid to stay home and the more babies they make, the more they get paid to stay home. This leads to multiple fathers that don't raise the child which leads to misdirection and a life of crime and a vicious cycle...need I go on?
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I don't believe that it is solely due to union membership, but that's a contributing factor. Folks have criticized FL, and while I don't think this is the greatest state to work and salaries are low, at least there is an increased minimum wage here. Some of these states won't even raise the minimum wage above $7.25 an hour.
As an FYI, I was in a union once....when I was in college and working part-time on the janitorial crew. My entire actual full-time working career, I was never in a union.
As far as my thoughts on many corporations laying people off in their late 50's before they reach retirement age, I was part of management and I know for sure that it is true. It's also backed up by statistics, you can actually see this statistic, it's not a figment of my imagination. There is a reason that 70% of Social Security recipients start collecting at age 62.