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ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)

8. They aren't on their way out the door

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun May 5, 2013, 02:59 PM

May 2013

and this has been planned for a long time.

From 2009:

American Wages Out of Balance

By EDWARD HADAS, MARTIN HUTCHINSON and ANTONY CURRIE
Published: November 10, 2009

American workers are overpaid, relative to equally productive employees elsewhere doing the same work. If the global economy is to get into balance, that gap must close.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/business/11views.html?_r=3&