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Re: How much do janitors get paid?

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From: Usenet2007
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:59
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In article <13eu1qnms06vb46@corp.supernews.com>, 
nowhere@nowhow.com says...
> jdoe <jdoe@aol.com> enscribed:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:52:00 -0700, Richard Fangnail
> > <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >I see janitors on strike sometimes and I wonder if they deserve more
> > >or if they're being surly.  I've heard of janitors who are paid only
> > >$20 an hour though they work so hard.  But I heard of a guy who was
> > >making $39 per hour as a janitor and went on strike anyway.  He said
> > >"Well I can't feed five kids on that!"  I don't know if that's true.
> > this is a new fallacy being promoted by the left, the buzz word is
> > "living wage"
> > 
> > who cares if he can support a family on his current wages?
> > 
> > if he wants to earn more he needs to go to school or get trained for a
> > job that has higher earnings potential.
> > 
> > it isn't an employers responsibility to ensure that a particular job
> > pays enough to support a family, it is the janitors responsibility to
> > make himself worthy of being worth higher wages.


> Is it better for society as a whole that the children be brought 
> up in poverty with lifelong physical and psychological problems 
> that rest of society will have to pay for the next seventy years? 
> Or is it better for society as a whole that the children 
> be brought up as healthy as possible?


Is it better for society as a whole, when children are brought up 
as spoilt brats, who think that a job - any job - should 
automatically pay for the standard of living they want?  As 
opposed paying an amount commensurate with the dollar value of 
work the individual contributes?


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Subject: Re: How much do janitors get paid?
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