Seems like the Reagan Revolution is finally bearing fruit...
"...To find out what pay U.S. workers will really accept for an hour’s work, and how that stacks up against other countries, NEWSWEEK turned to Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace for freelance work operated by Amazon.com. In a weeks-long experiment, we posted simple, hourlong jobs (listening to audio recordings and counting instances of a specific keyword) and continually lowered our offer until we found the absolute bottom price that multiple people would accept, and then complete the task.
The results: some Americans settled for a shockingly low 25 cents an hour—while counterparts in nations like India and the Philippines expected multiples more..."
Let's not forget to give props to our corporate media, too for all the misinformation... now let's end that damned public education once and for all.
Happy birthday! And may Obama discover that he has to go beyond rhetoric to accomplish actual good!
Posted by: Tom | June 22, 2011 at 09:24 AM
Thank you , sir!
Posted by: Jim DeRosa | June 23, 2011 at 01:56 PM