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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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August 27, 2007 12:19 PM
Economics 101: Raise Wages, and You'll Find Workers
Atrios dutifully debunks The Great Labor Shortage Lie out here in the Rocky Mountain West. Can't find workers? Try raising wages - you'll find plenty of potential employees.
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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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The labor shortage myth is just part of a concerted effort by business to break the back of the American worker.
And its not new either. I saw similar PR efforts in the tech field back in the early 90's as well.
Though I'm suprised that the uber elitist and Berkeleyite Ducan Black would deign to even write about such a issue. I'm really suprised that his kind would even care about anyone who wasn't a card carrying elitist.
The problem is though that the American worker has no political representation in D.C. save for a handful of congressmen. The rest either don't care or are planning on working for big business.
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