Income here vs. Income there...

Some moron finally said it. I don't remember who it was, or where on television I heard it (I'm usually too busy to look at the boob tube, even if it is on), but someone finally croaked that "Americans want too much money" as compared to the Chinese or Indians.

I don't know much about life in China (aside from what I've seen on the news about slave labor.) But I have studied life in India a wee bit. So, lets see what's up there.

The basic comparison...why should American companies pay an American employee $14 an hour plus benefits plus the taxes that go along with it (such as unemployment) when, over in India, you can simply pay them $10 an hour and be done with it.

So, lets look at one simple cost analysis of living here vs. living there. All-you-can-eat crap Chinese buffet cost about $7. Not a bad price, eh? Until you hear that, in India, all you can eat crap buffet (rice and a wide variety of sauces...not too different from Chinese buffet) will cost you only a quarter. Okay, maybe by now its $0.50. But the guy on the travel channel had said it was $0.25 in American money.

Now lets add a few things on top of that. If lower class people here in the United States even tried to live as the lower classes in India, what would happen? Your children would be removed from your custody, never to be seen again. You would be harassed by local law or code enforcement. In some areas, your house and all of your possessions could be confiscated, because not living in a perfect home with ALL of the utilities turned on is illegal. You are required to have so much space per person. In some states, you can't even have an outhouse way out in the boonies anymore...it goes against code. Yes, I even know someone who went to trial because his tenants had the wrong type of furniture on the porch.

And of course, who is doing this bitching and complaining about how greedy and lazy we are? The idiots that make multi-millions in their bonuses alone. Just remember...those greedy Americans wanting wages that will allow us to live the way the law REQUIRES us to live are also the people who are purchasing your products. Stop paying those greedy Americans (English, French, German, Australian...name any so-called 1st world country, and I'm sure its the same), and what happens? Well, gee....a world-wide spiraling downward depression. The less people make, the less they can spend, the more jobs get cut, the less people make, the less they can spend...all the way downward....until your company is a mere shell of itself because nobody has any money.

And these multi-million screwballs at the top will end up having to do the work all by themselves in order to keep those multi-million bonuses. Good luck with that.

So, I challenge all you tycoons who are doing this bitching to try it...just try it. Try living on $14 an hour here in the United States. I bet you can't.