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2013-07-12 Economy

A shot to NH: Sturm, Ruger and right-to-work

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 So where are they going to go? Mayodan, North Carolina

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-12 06:41|| 2013-07-12 06:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Only competition to employ people increases wages.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-12 07:47|| 2013-07-12 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 And wages don't go up when a particular sector of the economy is flooded with cheap unskilled labor. The action yesterday by the DC council to raise the minimum wage is simply an indicator of that issue. You don't have to raise pay artificially if the supply is not debased by adding vast numbers to the labor pool. However, when your goal is really power, that is never a consideration to the natural order of things.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-07-12 07:52|| 2013-07-12 07:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Yasss, the Democrats are against low wages, which is why they're voting for the Gang of Eight Immigration Bill...

Posted by Steve White 2013-07-12 10:55|| 2013-07-12 10:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Opponentsof making New Hampshire a right-to-work state said incessantly that it would hurt the state economically.

States with Right-to-work laws don't bear that out.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-07-12 11:50|| 2013-07-12 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 It was defeated by Democrats and pro-labor Republicans, who claimed fatuously that it was really the "right to work for less."

Otherwise known as the 'Free Market'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-12 12:29|| 2013-07-12 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 >And wages don't go up when a particular sector of the economy is flooded with cheap unskilled labor

In fact this causes rents to rise so it actually lowers the effective wages of low earners.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-12 12:40|| 2013-07-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Lefties and hippies? You are thinking of Vermont, not NH. Granted a little of the Boston brain cancer has creeper in, but mostly you're looking at Vermin Supreme politics in hill country

Posted by regular joe 2013-07-12 15:15|| 2013-07-12 15:15|| Front Page Top

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