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The U.S. minimum wage should be
You mean minimum taxable wage (Score:1, Insightful)by OccamsRazorTime (2621799) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @03:26PM (#42996583)Let's just call it what it is: the ultimate tax break. The minimum wage is a tax break for those earning less than it. Increasing the minimum wage to $10 per hour as some have suggested will simply result in more blackmarket hiring. Maybe giving this tax break will help the US recover from some of it's current inequality spiral.
Not a real fix (Score:4, Insightful)
As someone who has recently worked for cash, I can attest to the supply of workers ready and willing to work at all, even if for less than the minimum wage.
Focusing on minimum wage is a distraction from real solutions to our economic problems.
Missing option - Enforced (Score:5, Insightful)Whatever the minimum wage is, it should be enforced. Enforced for everyone - farm workers, children, "undocumented" (illegal) residents, etc.
The minimum wage only hurts the people it is intended to help, weakens the economy, and promotes welfare and government dependance.
"In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both prices and wages. When employers evaluate their labor and capital needs, cost is a primary factor. When the cost of hiring low-skilled workers moves higher, jobs are lost. Despite this, minimum wage hikes, like the one set to take effect later this month, are always seen as an act of governmental benevolence. Nothing could be further from the truth.
When confronted with a clogged drain, most of us will call several plumbers and hire the one who quotes us the lowest price. If all the quotes are too high, most of us will grab some Drano and a wrench, and have at it. Labor markets work the same way. Before bringing on another worker, an employer must be convinced that the added productivity will exceed the added cost (this includes not just wages, but all payroll taxes and other benefits.) So if an unskilled worker is capable of delivering only $6 per hour of increased productivity, such an individual is legally unemployable with a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
Low-skilled workers must compete for employers' dollars with both skilled workers and capital. For example, if a skilled worker can do a job for $14 per hour that two unskilled workers can do for $6.50 per hour each, then it makes economic sense for the employer to go with the unskilled labor. Increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour and the unskilled workers are priced out of their jobs. This dynamic is precisely why labor unions are such big supporters of minimum wage laws. Even though none of their members earn the minimum wage, the law helps protect their members from having to compete with lower-skilled workers.
Employers also have the choice of whether to employ people or machines. For example, an employer can hire a receptionist or invest in an automated answering system. The next time you are screaming obscenities into the phone as you try to have a conversation with a computer, you know what to blame for your frustration.
There are numerous other examples of employers substituting capital for labor simply because the minimum wage has made low-skilled workers uncompetitive. For example, handcarts have replaced skycaps at airports. The main reason fast-food restaurants use paper plates and plastic utensils is to avoid having to hire dishwashers.
As a result, many low-skilled jobs that used to be the first rung on the employment ladder have been priced out of the market. Can you remember the last time an usher showed you to your seat in a dark movie theater? When was the last time someone other than the cashier not only bagged your groceries, but also loaded them into your car? By the way, it won't be long before the cashiers themselves are priced out of the market, replaced by automated scanners, leaving you to bag your purchases with no help whatsoever.
The disappearance of these jobs has broader economic and societal consequences. First jobs are a means to improve skills so that low skilled workers can offer greater productivity to current or future employers. As their skills grow, so does their ability to earn higher wages. However, remove the bottom rung from the employment ladder and many never have a chance to climb it.
So the next time you are pumping your own gas in the rain, do not just think about the teenager who could have been pumping it for you, think about the auto mechanic he could have become – had the minimum wage not denied him a job. Many auto mechanics used to learn their trade while working as pump jockeys. Between fill-ups, checking tire pressure, and washing windows, they would spend a lot of time helping – and learning from – the mechanics.
Because the minimum wage prevents so many young people (including a disproportionate number of minorit
Here's where theory and reality conflict. There's no concrete evidence that the minimum wage reduces employment. Some studies go one way, others another, and still others inconclusive. The general consensus among economists is that reduction in employment is unproven. Perhaps because minimum wages are too low to actually matter much.
Re:Missing option - Enforced (Score:5, Insightful)
Enforcing the minimum wage in this instance would mean going after *employers,* instead of just punishing the workers with deportation. Seize the assets of employers (to be paid as back wages to workers, "illegal" or not), and throw the employers in jail --- that'll stop under-the-table low wage labor much more effectively than occasionally deporting a group of workers (so the employers can move on to the next round of desperate, fearful immigrants, easy to exploit with bad wages).
by 93 Escort Wagon (326346) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:38PM (#42997083)
I think he suggests reintroducing slavery. He probably didn't like the latest Lincoln movie.
Well, it IS rather hard to believe Abraham Lincoln had enough free time to go hunting down vampires.
Re:Missing option - Enforced (Score:2, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:40PM (#42997091)
Society would collapse within a week. You need to fix "the books" first; the laws on them right now are not even designed with enforcement in mind.
by RedHackTea (2779623) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:52PM (#42997185)So then corporations can decide the minimum wage. "Hey Pepsi, Coke, Nike, Walmart, etc. Let's set all of our wages to $1/hour. If workers don't like it, where else are they going to work? Surely, we'll get some crackheads that at least want a $1/hour." or, "Hey Boss, inflation and price of goods has risen quite high. Think we can all get a raise. (boss laughs hysterically)"
You can disagree with the minimum wage and suggest alternate systems, but I don't think it's a good idea to do away with it. Offer other solutions instead. Do we have a certain minimum wage for each class? Keep the minimum wage but do away with it for entry-level jobs of kids out-of-college? Then do companies only higher kids out-of-college for cheap labor and hurts everyone else over the age of 25?
It's like we're using a raft to stay afloat on water. All you say is that we should get rid of the raft. Well, now we're floating in shark-infested water. Can you offer some alternate solutions instead?
Re: Wow, only $7.25? (Score:2, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24, 2013 @05:10PM (#42997315)
Sydney's cost of living is higher than where I live and our minimum wage is a dollar more/hour than in sydney.
The minimum wage is high enough that, if you work close to full time and are careful with money, you can live comfortably and provide good health/education for your kids.
If for some reason you can't get a job or can't work full time (eg: you are studying full time), then you will be eligible for various tax breaks and/or wealfare.
Also, income tax is almost non-existent if you earn minimum wage.
It does drive the cost of living up a bit, but only for services where labour is the primary cost - eg fast food is expensive here, because even 15 year old kids earn almost $10/hour on weekdays and often double that on weekends.
Most people, however, earn at least 30% more than the minimum wage.
Some bosses try to pay less, especially if they hire foreign tourists. And if an "employee" is a subcontractor there is no minimum wage (creating some grey areas). But a single disgruntled employee can call a dedicated government department to anonymously discuss or formally report these cases, and unless they keep it anonymous (good idea if you wanna keep your job) the boss is likely to end up in jail.
minimum wage is a good idea and should be tied to cpi. welfare what welfare. the government sells insurance and it's called social security, and while it is a pyramid scam for politicians to raid, it is still insurance not welfare. they got rid of most welfare. long ago, the problem is the government raided social security to give tax breaks to the rich in trickledown economics which is total bs. the rich don't 'trickle down' wealth they hord it, like the government does too (ever heard of fort knox). the only welfare left are corn subsudies (which benefit coke pepsi etc) and 'clean coal'/renewable energy grants. billionaires get huge tax breaks for not paying taxes in ireland, and other tax havens. it is sad, but individuals don't get welfare, and collecting social security is not accepting welfare, it is cashing in on an insurance policy. just like unemployment checks. and they deny your disability claims unless you hire a lawyer who can articulate your legitimate claim to disability, retirement checks are easier to get, but they keep creeping the age up, making up for corporations not having to pay their fair share of taxes, so the politicians raid social security funding.
the model of weath creation is to make the cheapest (without reducing quality) product while giving workers the best pay reasonable, but not all rich people follow that model, because they may make less individual wealth rather than wealth for the working class.
by Freddybear (1805256) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @05:49PM (#42997573)
Why is it that all those eeeeevul companies don't already pay only the minimum wage? Could it be that companies like that actually have to compete for capable workers? The minimum wage mostly hurts first-job workers, low-skilled workers, and other marginal workers who can't compete for better jobs in the first place. Companies that rely on low-skill workers typically limit them to part-time so they don't fall into the minimum wage. Obamacare just makes that worse too.
Other solutions? How about making it less expensive to hire low-skilled workers?
Re:evidence-based policy (Score:2, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24, 2013 @05:53PM (#42997607)
Capital gains is also normally irrelevant to all but the "pretty rich"
Buy a house for $200K, sell it for $300K years later would be $100K in capitol gains. Many people who are not "pretty rich" do that. Then there are 401K's, Small stock portfolios, etc.
Except you're allowed a very generous exemption on capital gains on a primary residence (250k for individuals, 500k for couples).
Employers also have the choice of whether to employ people or machines. For example, an employer can hire a receptionist or invest in an automated answering system. The next time you are screaming obscenities into the phone as you try to have a conversation with a computer, you know what to blame for your frustration.
Machines get better every year, at just about everything, which means the value of low-end jobs is heading toward 0$. When all menial jobs can be done by robots, and everyone has already bought enough robots to do them, do we just let the unskilled die in the streets?
There are numerous other examples of employers substituting capital for labor simply because the minimum wage has made low-skilled workers uncompetitive. For example, handcarts have replaced skycaps at airports. The main reason fast-food restaurants use paper plates and plastic utensils is to avoid having to hire dishwashers.
It is not possible to pay a human being so little that they will be cheaper than an hour's worth of paper plates. The minimum wage didn't do that, the existence of machines that can produce paper goods that border on free did that. Lone vendors have always used paper, or just handed bare food to customers. The modern difference is that multi-billion dollar chains are now comfortable doing that to people who are sitting down in an actual restaurant.
As a result, many low-skilled jobs that used to be the first rung on the employment ladder have been priced out of the market. Can you remember the last time an usher showed you to your seat in a dark movie theater? When was the last time someone other than the cashier not only bagged your groceries, but also loaded them into your car? By the way, it won't be long before the cashiers themselves are priced out of the market, replaced by automated scanners, leaving you to bag your purchases with no help whatsoever.
Usher is not the first-rung to anything. My grocery store has baggers who will help you load your groceries, but it is not the first rung to anywhere. Cashiers aren't going to be priced out by the minimum wage, they're going to be priced out by RFID scanners that record everything in your cart in five seconds, and run on five dollars in power per month. It's literally impossible for a human to compete with that. Should those humans die on the street? Even as things stand, these ladder-to-nowhere jobs don't pay enough for people to go to school on. The people who have them are stuck.
The disappearance of these jobs has broader economic and societal consequences. First jobs are a means to improve skills so that low skilled workers can offer greater productivity to current or future employers. As their skills grow, so does their ability to earn higher wages. However, remove the bottom rung from the employment ladder and many never have a chance to climb it.
Grocery baggers don't need to hone their skills for their employer's benefit. No one is going to get payed more for being a grocery-bagging gunslinger, travelling from store to store, fixing grocery bagging problems at exorbitant rates. The jobs that are "rungs" now require a college degree, and as education costs rise, anyone who isn't fully funded by their parents will find a degree effectively impossible to achieve.
So the next time you are pumping your own gas in the rain, do not just think about the teenager who could have been pumping it for you, think about the auto mechanic he could have become – had the minimum wage not denied him a job. Many auto mechanics used to learn their trade while working as pump jockeys. Between fill-ups, checking tire pressure, and washing windows, they would spend a lot of time helping – and learning from – the mechanics.
In the year 2013, where we live, Ma Kettle's Super Casual Gas & Go, where the attendant chews straw and learns repair on those dull, dusty days when cars are few, is not a thing. Gas stations are franchises. They al
by canadian_right (410687) <email@example.com> on Sunday February 24, 2013 @06:15PM (#42997783) Homepage
A well done, post, but unfortunately empirical evidence contradicts most of your points.
There is no strong evidence that modest increases to the minimum wage reduces employment for low income people. One study in Florida showed an increase in youth employment after the minimum wage was increased.
The minimum wage may delay having workers replaced by machines, but eventually if the technology exists to replace a worker it is used.
Worker productivity has increased a huge amount since the 1970's, yet adjusted for inflation wages are stagnant. The increased productivity is being used to make the 1% richer.
Yes, lots of low paying jobs are gone, and more and more of them will disappear as technology improves. Another thing killing off low paying jobs is "the race to the bottom" where consumers demand the lowest possible price without thinking what that will do to service and quality.
Without a minimum wage, and lacking strong unions, wages drop to below a level that supports even a modest living unless there is a severe labour shortage. Outside of a few hot spots, when there is no minimum wage business takes advantage of it to suppress wages.
In the long run technology will doom capitalism as there will be no work for anyone. A different system, some sort of socialism most likely, will have to replace it.
Thank you! (Score:5, Insightful)by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24, 2013 @06:35PM (#42997929)
I think it's quite telling that well managed and successful companies pay above minimum wage. My local McDnald's pays $8/hr.
The shitholes and companies that just want to maximize their profits pay minimum wage. In other words, they pay that little not because they can't afford more but because they can. More money for the owners. Raise the minimum wage and they'll pay it: there will be just a couple of percentage points decrease in the return to the owners.
Actually, I think minimum wage should be pegged to how much medical insurance costs. Back in the 90s when Globalisation was starting to take off, economists were on TV stating that our standard of living will increase because goods will fall in price.
Yep, big screen TVs have become a lot more affordable. In the meantime, medical care, college costs, and food prices have sky rocketed. And in the meantime, our standard of living has DECREASED. I lived a HELL of a lot better in the 90s than I do now!
Want there to be no min wage? Fine. Then let's outlaw the horseshit with the pharmaceutical companies gouging us in the States while giving the rest of the World a price break.
Let's stop this horseshit of college costs going through the roof.
Let's stop the AMA from blocking legislation allowing nurse practioners to do some of the GP work - like prescribing some drugs (the Georigia AMA is really bad here!). Medical costs CAN be reduced WITHOUT jeopardizing patient safety or health.
But like everything, the poor have very little say and the folks with the $$$$ have most of the say.
Re:Not a real fix (Score:1, Insightful)
Not only is it a distraction but it isn't worth focusing on.
Many minimum wage workers begin getting raises within their first year or so of employment because they prove to be valuable assets to their employer and therefore their employer wants to reward them for their loyalty, productivity, and potentially a growth in skill set. This is how people move up the ladder. Minimum wage jobs are intended to be entry-level jobs. That's why they pay the lowest amount possible. They aren't intended to be careers but rather jobs that people entering the workforce can acquire due to their limited, or in some cases non-existent, skill set. This also means that many of the minimum wage workers are teenagers who don't have a family to feed and live at home. This means they don't need a high minimum wage due to their lack of responsibility to others. Their lack of skill set also doesn't justify starting out at a high wage.
So based on those statements, there isn't that many people left who are actually making just minimum wage after a year of employment who actually need a much higher wage due to having to support a family. So with that said, does raising the minimum wage for EVERYONE justify raising it for the very small subset of people who happen to be using the minimum wage job to support a family? No, it doesn't. A small subset of people will find themselves relying on a minimum wage job, sometimes to support their families, in the cases where they were laid off and couldn't find anything else or for those people who are near the end of retirement. Even if someone possesses a master's degree or has IT skills, those skills don't matter when flipping burgers, so someone who used to make $50k but got laid off and then who complains that they need $20/hr at McDonald's to support their family of 4 may as well expect to never get by with that job. There will be people who will work for less because they don't need to support a family because they are just a teenager who is applying for that job because it is indeed an entry-level job that requires no skills.
This doesn't mean I don't have compassion for those who need to support their families. If I didn't have compassion then I'd advocate making minimum wage $50/hr so that people making hamburgers and cashiers at walmart can get $100k a year just like other people who actually *have* skills deserving of $100k a year. But I understand economics too. I understand that if you keep having to pay someone more and more and not get anything more out of them for that higher cost (as in, more skills, more productivity, etc.) then they are more of a liability than an asset. Eventually, an employer will let that person go and make do with the other employees, OR, they will raise prices in order to still try earning profit in order to prevent the ENTIRE BUSINESS from collapsing due to employee costs that end up outweighing revenue thus equating to a loss of money. If that goes on for too long then the business closes up shop. THEN EVERYONE LOSES. So why would we want that?
Now, an employer who recognizes an employee is an asset, will move the employee to a higher paying position with MORE responsibility. But the original minimum wage job must still exist because there is still the need to have unskilled labor. There is nothing wrong with that. Kids and adults alike need to understand that there is a job for everyone; they are all important. I have worked my way up the salary ladder. I didn't expect $20/hr as a dishwasher. I knew I had to work my way up. For those who say, "but inflation makes things cost more". True, but you can thank the gov't (notice I didn't point to a specific president because there isn't one) for printing money that causes it to be worth less and therefore makes oil cost more and therefore fuel costs more. But when we raise the minimum wage they are just feeding the inflation fire because, as I said above, employers not only then have to contend with rising fuel costs (due to inflation and supply/demand changing) but now they have to continue thei
by A nonymous Coward (7548) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:54PM (#42998517)
If sin taxes are implemented to reduce consumption of sinful tobacco and alcohol, and if import tariffs are implemented to reduce consumption of imports, and if politicians brag about this, then what do you think a tax on unskilled labor is going to do? And why do those same politicians act as if the reverse is true?
If it's good policy to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 from $7.25, and it will actually increase employment as politicians claim, why stop there? Why not raise the minimum wage to $15.00, or $50.00?
If you claim that those big raises are silly because they are patently destructive and unaffordable and ludicrous, then show me how you derived the $9.00 figure, which you claim to have the opposite effect?
Re:Much ado about very little (Score:3, Insightful)by Billly Gates (198444) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @09:04PM (#42998927) Journal
You guys make it look like half the country earns the minimum wage. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Check the Department of Labor website and see for yourselves how few people actually work for the minimum wage. It's just a few percent of workers, and a good portion of those are teenagers, college students working part time, and second-income earners for a family.
It's just not that big a deal.
Why don't you instead look at the largest growth jobs? Minimium wage and $10/hr are exploding and growing by leaps and bounds. Walmart jobs, dollar stores jobs, fast food is where the industry is heading. UPS used to pay back in 1991 $20/hr for part time delivery jobs and distribution for the Christmas holidays. They now pay $9/hr without even being adjusted for inflation!
Also where you looking at the average salary that includes all the top 1%? Or the average salaried position? They have been declining year after year while inflation has grown 700%. The government is lying as CPI inflation index does not count insurance, food, energy, or housing! If you add these we have the 1970s since 1998 where it grows 10% year after year.
$40,000 a year was ok in 1998. Today if you add health care costs, food, and rent prices you can survive, but that is about it and be poor.
Re:Wow, only $7.25? (Score:4, Insightful)
Please explain me your budget, because I do not believe you can live in a reasonnable way at that price. Here is a reasonnable but low budget according to expenses around where I live
rent 550 (that's 1 bedroom, I guess you could go for a studio)
car insurance 35 (don't think you can drop under that for basic coverage mandatory in many states)
car payement/repair 100 (that's quite low, about 1 low end new car in 10 years)
internet 20 (that could be cut)
home/cell phone 20 (that's the basic cell plan without internet)
gas 50 (that's about 1 tank a month, if you live close enough to work or can use public transportation that should be enough)
utilities 50 (probably depends on where you live)
health insurance 150 (nothing below exist)
clothing 50 (one reasonnable pair of shooes or a few shirts)
food/grocery 300 ($10 a day)
that's 1325 a month which is over the minimal wage budget. I guess internet and cell phone could be cut. I guess you could go for a studio and cut rent a little bit. Health insurance could be cut but then welcome to medieval health care (though, the deductible will kill you with such a budget). Clothing could be cut in half certainly but not really easily (especially if you are a women). food/grocery might be reduced a little bit, but probably not more than to $8/day.
Re:Wow, only $7.25? (Score:5, Insightful)
> In Australia the minimum wage is almost $16/hr, or US$16.50.
plus 9% superannuation, plus 20% casual loading (or holidays, sick leave etc.).
And if you have kids, there are very generous payments on top for low income earners.
Of course the terrible cost of high minimum wage is an unemployment level in Australia of almost 5%.
by Digital Vomit (891734) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @10:50PM (#42999603) Homepage Journal
In a free market, demand is always a function of price
And right out the the gate we have a false premise.
Get rid of it. (Score:3, Insightful)by Darkness404 (1287218) on Sunday February 24, 2013 @11:36PM (#42999827)All the minimum wage does it make it illegal to work for less than X amount of money. Why should it be illegal for someone to work for $X if they choose it? No one is being forced into labor, anyone can choose whatever job they want to apply for.
If you think you're worth $30 an hour, don't work for less than that! Refuse to work unless you get the wages you want, whether that is $30 an hour or $3 an hour, but no business will hire someone if they get paid more than what they are worth, they're not a charity. The minimum wage essentially removes the bottom rungs on the "corporate ladder" making it harder and harder for less skilled people to find employment. Since they can't find employment, they can't get the skills to move up so they end up unemployed.
Please pick a book with a bigger data set.
I don't think you've understood the gist of the post you are responding to. I am not advocating for either conclusion. More to the point since I am not advocating for the conclusion a minimum wage chokes employment it hardly falls to me to pick anything at all, does it?
Or perhaps you are only obeying the instructions in the penultimate sentence to the letter? Feels good, no?
by GoodNewsJimDotCom (2244874) on Monday February 25, 2013 @12:41AM (#43000159)Or what about a Dr. Wiley ending? One man who owns all the robots who do all the manufacturing, and that same man owns all the security robots. If nothing is done about wealth disparity, this is a possible ending. One man who owns everything... It'd make for good sci fi, or at least a good video game plot.
Re:Not a real fix (Score:4, Insightful)by angel'o'sphere (80593) on Monday February 25, 2013 @06:50AM (#43001385) Homepage Journal
Many minimum wage workers begin getting raises within their first year 1 or so of employment because they prove to be valuable assets to their employer and therefore their employer wants to reward them for their loyalty 2, productivity, and potentially a growth in skill set. This is how people move up the ladder. 3
1) never seen that happen
2) employers are not loyal (oh you ment employees
3) there are thousands of jobs where there is no ladder to move on (e.g. burger cooker at Mac Donalds)
Who is actually earning minimum wage? (Score:2, Insightful)by goldspider (445116) <ardrake79 AT gmail DOT com> on Monday February 25, 2013 @09:52AM (#43002027) Homepage
I'm willing to bet this changed beginning with the recession, but if I recall correctly, there are very few adults with children working full-time and making minimum wage. I wish I had citation to back that up readily available, but to my recollection it was mostly young people just entering the workforce who made up a majority of the minimum-wage earners.
If that's still the case, way to grandstand on a non-issue, Mr. President.
Re:Not a real fix (Score:2, Insightful)
Many minimum wage workers begin getting raises within their first year or so of employment
Many others are fired at the first sign of illness, or any hint that the worker thinks he is worth more. Many are fired within a year to stop them gaining any seniority or eligibility for benefits.
In addition, many restaurants have already announced they are cutting back worker hours to about 30-32 hours in order to avoid having to pay health insurance costs for them under Obamacare.
Yeah, how could those workers expect health care? They should just jump into the meat grinders and turn themselves into burgers if they fall ill.
>If it's good policy to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 from $7.25, and it will actually increase employment as politicians claim, why stop there? Why not raise the minimum wage to $15.00, or $50.00?
For the same reason that if it's better to give a dehydrated man 2 glasses of water instead of 1, it is not logical to give him 50 glasses of water. It is a complete logical fallacy to claim that because a small increase of something is better, any amount of increase is better. Try again.
Re:Thank you! (Score:1, Insightful)
I think it's quite telling that well managed and successful companies pay above minimum wage. My local McDnald's pays $8/hr.
What's the standard of living in your area? That has something to do with it. I mostly have the issue with a continually overreaching federal government, over which I have little influence and representation, dictating things that can be better handled at the state and local levels. It disgusts me that citizens are so used to this meddling behemoth that when they identify a problem, the first step is to demand that the federal government do it. Having a state or, even better, local government rectify the situation is something that's not only within their grasp but the equivalent of a drone strike as compared to carpet-bombing.
I'm also disgusted with the Slashdot moderators who think that having mod points means you just mod down posts you disagree with. Half of the parent post is vulgar and OT, but the GP post which was succinct, polite, accurate, and on-topic-- but gave the opposing opinion-- was modded down. This is immoral, and a total disgrace.
Re:25% of the median wage (Score:3, Insightful)by XxtraLarGe (551297) on Monday February 25, 2013 @12:55PM (#43004291) JournalIn other words, you want high unemployment for unskilled laborers. Most people don't seem to understand that the real minimum wage is $0. That's how much you earn when the minimum wage has priced you out of the job market. Couple that with recent reports about needing a bachelor's degree to get even low-skill jobs and soaring student loan debt, and you're looking at a major catastrophe for the lower & middle classes.
by NoNonAlphaCharsHere (2201864) on Monday February 25, 2013 @02:38PM (#43005663)Horseshit. They call it wage slavery [wikipedia.org], same as Lincoln himself did, and it's brought to you by the moral descendants of the plantation owners: capitalists.
Re:25% of the median wage (Score:5, Insightful)by spiffmastercow (1001386) on Monday February 25, 2013 @04:27PM (#43007323)
In other words, you want high unemployment for unskilled laborers. Most people don't seem to understand that the real minimum wage is $0. That's how much you earn when the minimum wage has priced you out of the job market. Couple that with recent reports about needing a bachelor's degree to get even low-skill jobs and soaring student loan debt, and you're looking at a major catastrophe for the lower & middle classes.
Making employers pay more for employees won't mean there's less work to do, and employers hire based off of how much work there is to do, not based on how much extra money they have in their pocket. You remove transportation costs and such. The economy won't suddenly implode when people make more money -- the worst that will happen is faster inflation, which really only hurts the rich if the minimum wage is tied to a decent metric.
Re:Regionally determined (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think I implied a mandate of any kind, and if it seemed that way, it was not my intent. What we can do is build and maintain an infrastructure and enact policy that leads to opportunities for improvement and either sustainability or growth in a community. Those that seek a better quality of life will be able attain it, or maintain what they have earned. That's why it's important to read the rest of the sentence and get to the point of "for a productive worker." The person has to appreciate the efforts required and choose success. We can't just mandate that every jackass and his mom gets a pony. But success has to be on the table as a possibility, right? It seems to me that you saw the phrase "minimum... quality of life" and balked without finishing. I held that up as the real aim of a minimum wage, and declared it as a starting point to get at our actual goals. I then demonstrated that the wage alone is totally inadequate. A mandated quality of life would be also be a horrible mistake, IMO.
However, if we have a regional economic system where a person (or couple) can work their ass off at three to five jobs and his/her family still starves, and the kids never see their parents so they get no discipline and a lousy education, what we have is unacceptable and unsustainable, and I have seen that very situation far more often than is acceptable in the past 6 years. I've also seen people on union benefits that don't do any work, and the benefit keeps them from moving on, and the union keeps them out of the work they used to do. More and more families are working hard and not seeing the rewards of their labor, or held back from the labor markets because they are not sustained by spending, and so stay on furlough. It's like digging a pit in the sand. People who work themselves to the bone and still have no security or acceptable quality of life (subjectively speaking, to their regional standard of living) should not be ignored as foolish or unlucky. People who cannot work because we are ignoring necessary work in some crazy ideal of austerity should be given the necessary work. They both should serve as a warning that these communities are failing, for whatever reason, and triage should commence.
We ignore that fact, because it is too hard, and either give out inadequate handouts in guilt (which break the bank in aggregate), or call such people foolish or lazy. None of that helps, because it's all orchestrated to our need to get on with our lives, blindly wishing that it will not reach unto us. We are ignoring a sleeping giant. There are too many people that have fallen down, and they will get back up. The only question is will they be carrying pitchforks and torches when that happens.
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Ah, the great Keynesian fallacy. Little pieces of paper are what move and economy, not goods. That is why you can just print a piece of paper with a 1 followed by 16 zeros and solve all your economy's problems.
Let's make the minimum wage a million dollars an hour! The government can just send out million dollar bills to all the employers to pay those wages. Because you can print prosperity.
Nothing is further from the truth. Keynesianism supports the idea that goods and production and consumption are what matter, not little pieces of paper. The currency is simply a tool. When you have a recession caused not by destruction of productive capacity but by lack of demand (triggered by a financial crisis, for instance), then Keynesian stimulative policy can get some traction. Keynesian policy also means that when the economy is doing really well, austerity is necessary to keep inflation low and the economy from over-heating.
(Keynesian stimulus can be either monetary stimulus--i.e. quantitative easing--or fiscal stimulus--i.e. gov't spending and tax breaks... When you're at the zero lower bound like we are now, with a period of inflation lower than at any other period since the Great Depression and interest rates are also incredibly low--two things that aren't supposed to happen at the same time under monetarism but yet are right now--then regular monetary stimulus is pretty ineffective and because of the high unemployment rate--which is a pool of unused productive capacity--your best bet is fiscal stimulus which IS effective even when monetary policy is exhausted but fiscal stimulus is apparently not politically "serious" enough.)
Just so we're clear, all the fiscal stimulus is doing is not "magical," it's just putting idle resources--unemployed workers and capital--to work.
But again, you seem to have your straw man pretty well established, sorry for disrupting it...


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The nice lady from the tourist bureau in Quebec had assured me on the phone that we could easily handle biking 50 kilometers (31 miles) a day on the famed P'tit Train du Nord Linear Park bikeway. I thought she must be referring to all those Lance Armstrong wannabes decked out in yellow dry weaves and black spandex.
Me, I'm a recreational cyclist. I wear tee-shirts and shorts. I like to putz along, look at the scenery and stick my toes in any cool bodies of water that might intersect with the trail.
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So I was a little leery about having to do all those kilometers just to get to our next night's lodging. But the lure of this trail, winding through mountain lakes, rivers and woods and dotted with small European-style inns and bed and breakfasts, was too strong to pass up.
Built on an abandoned rail bed, Le P'tit Train du Nord stretches 200 kilometers (124 miles) from its northern point at Mont-Laurier down to Saint-Jerome, about 45 minutes north of Montreal. This is known as the Laurentian region of the province of Quebec, and is a popular vacation area for cross-country skiers and snowmobilers in the winter and cyclists in the summer.
We drove our car to Saint-Jerome and parked (for free) in a big lot right next to the trail's southern end. Then our bikes were loaded onto a trailer and we hopped into the shuttle bus for a two-hour ride north. (Transport du Parc Lineaire "Domaine Marie-Max")
The best part about planning a bike trip on Le P'tit Train du Nord is that the friendly folks in the Laurentide Tourist Bureau (1-800-561-6673) do everything for you. Just call them ahead of time, tell them how many kilometers/miles you want to cover each day, whether or not you want your baggage transported and what kind of accommodations you prefer - small hotel, inn or bed & breakfast. Then they actually book everything for you at no charge.
Wimping out a bit, we had decided to start our ride at the 145k (90 mi) mark in a little town called Nominingue. Our hotel, the Auberge Villa Bellerive, was wedged neatly between the trail and a good-sized lake. This historic hotel and restaurant is a family-run business and is in such a safe area that our room didn't need a key!
Arriving at dinnertime, we ate in their little Cafe du Quai overlooking Lake Nomininque (the Maudite beer from Quebec and the grilled honey mustard chicken sandwich were excellent) then retired early to get ready for our next day's ride. Had we more energy, we could have taken a dip in the pool, the lake or the hot tub.
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Soon after hitting the trail that morning, we had our first taste of the famous scenery - evergreen forests with clumps of birch, fern carpets and cerulean skies; million-dollar lake views and a tangle of brooks and rivers weaving their way through the mountains. The rivers in this area, including the aptly named Riviere Rouge, are a deep rust color from the iron ore in the soil. At about the 136 kilometer mark, look for beaver dams just a few feet from the bike path.
After a full morning of riding, we rolled into the Gare de Labelle (106k), an old train station now housing an information center, sandwich shop and small (free) museum. Train buffs shouldn't miss the museum with its photos of old train plows pushing walls of snow off the tracks. This station, festive with its international flags and dozens of bicyclists milling about, is a great place to refill your water bottles, grab something to eat and use the rest rooms.
There are stations with services all along the bikeway and we found them to be clean and the staff very helpful. You can also buy your trail pass at these stations. The pass for bicycles, required from May to October, is $5/day or $15/season, children under 17 are free.
Labelle is also the point at which the trail turns from pavement to crushed stone. This will slow you down a bit and you'll have to watch for sandy patches, especially near road crossings.
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Our next night's lodging was in Mont Tremblant (91k). The approach to the village takes you around Lac Mercier, with the water literally lapping up against the side of the bike path. There are several small hotels right on the trail. We stayed in the historic Hotel Mont Tremblant. Spotless and reasonably priced, it has views of the lake and access to the beach.
We opted to eat back at our hotel's restaurant called Le Bernadin. Both the food and service were exceptional (try the veal scalopini, salad and coffee for $25) and it has a large terasse, so you can dine inside or out, even for breakfast.
Dusted By Young and Old
We were happy with our own progress on the up-grade, reaching our third night's stop in Saint-Agathe at 49k (30 mi), by early afternoon. Ste-Agathe is another charming little town on a mountain lake. We stayed at the beautifully decorated Aurberge du Lac des Sables, about 1.5 kilometers (0.9 mi)from the bike path.
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The next morning after a generous breakfast at the hotel we made our way back to the bikeway and one of the prettiest sections of the trail. It's here, just south of Ste-Agathe, that the trail hugs the Riviere du Nord, which alternates between roaring rapids and slow, languid stretches. Have your camera ready.
At 42k (26 mi), you hit Val David, a quaint, artsy town that happened to be hosting a large pottery exhibition when we visited. After browsing a bit, we grabbed some lunch at Le Grand Pa, known for its wood-fired pizza. We sat outside on the big sunny porch and feasted on linguine with eggplant, red peppers, mushrooms and olives baked in a cruet with melted cheese on top and served with fresh bread. Did I mention that biking makes you hungry?
It was also in Val David, that we stumbled on the La Maison de Baviere, a small 'gite touristique' that will definitely be on my itinerary if we ever return. This cozy Bavarian inn sits right on some waterfalls and is a favorite spot for cross-country skiers in the winter.
Back on the trail we stopped at 39k (24 mi) for a snooze on a huge flat rock that juts out into the river. Then it was on to our next destination, Auberge La Bruyere in Saint-Adele. Located at 33k (20 mi), the hotel was only half a kilometer 0.3 mi) off the bikeway, but there was no sign for it on the trail and we had a little trouble finding it.
Once there however, the auberge owner made us feel at home. We relaxed by the pool before dining at the hotel's restaurant. The owner was a chef for many years before buying the hotel and the meal reflected his talents. (I recommend the chicken citron $16.95)
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The nicely designed park at the trail's end includes walk-through water fountains, a snack bar and Vert Cafe Bistro, which served terrific ciabatta sandwiches. The old rail station and some train cars also house a tourist information center and a luggage transport office.
Filled with cyclists and rollerbladers, the atmosphere here is exciting and you feel a sense of accomplishment and an instant connection to these perfect strangers. Even without yellow jerseys, we completed our 145k (90 mi) trip on Le P'tit Train du Nord in four days with plenty of time to spare, proving after all, that the nice lady at the tourist bureau knows her stuff.
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The latest example was sent to me after a phone call to Ken and Steve Gunn, his editor for innovation and new products, about a brainstorming session on news games we are planning here in March. Our thought-provoking phone conversation was followed up with this message which really lays out some of the challenges, and opportunities, news organizations might face / embrace if they really want to figure out ways to "gamify" the news experience.
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I was thinking of all kinds of concepts: semantic/search, HTML5, usability, continuity with new sites, business models and costs, etc., when, early this morning, NPR did feature pegged on Microsoft challenging Jeopardy to a game. NPR decided to simply try Google and some of the other search engines to see how they might compete against the Jeopardy champion that will test Microsoft. He was correct near 80% of the time. Well, it turns out that Google returned the correct answer on the first page of returns more than 70% of the time, while Bing did slightly worse but still well. This really got me thinking.
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How do you monetize these kinds of tools on a news site? Certainly, you can do some advertising ride-a-long and sponsorship. But the relative audience numbers, while loyal, would likely be relatively small and difficult -- on a local level, anyway -- to sell. So, what else? What "value" other than direct monetization should we consider? If the games are engaging enough, I think you could really build a community around them, including registration and e-mail databases. E-mail monetizes at a higher CPM than almost all other products we currently sell. And it remains among the most effective of conversion tools. It's also a way to remind our readership to engage often. The right kind of game could help build that valuable consumer database. It's a good symbiosis of audience and advertiser.
On the expense side, the technology would have to keep the ongoing costs and maintenance to a minimum. Think about iPad/iPhone development. It is currently so expensive and time-consuming that even minor changes have to go back to developers and then re-submitted to Apple. This is a time signature that our audience would not tolerate and that our contracting resources could not support. So, the tools have to work well -- seamlessly -- with current systems. Remember that most of these will be local efforts and, as such, will have a finite ability to monetize. That means the other side of the P&L must be more than frugal. You also want something so simple to deploy each day that a highly-taxed newsroom can fit it in without groaning under the tools' weight.
I keep coming back to the fact that, for this to work -- as a business and an audience generator -- it must not be proprietary technology. Again, as with iPad/iPhone development, what role might HTML5 play to simplify and open-source this effort. Keep it accessible. I believe HTML5 promises to turn pad and smartphone distribution on its head. It will open up a whole new world of contributors the way the web shifted from proprietary applications to HTML very early. If the gaming technology is proprietary, it will be difficult to work with existing systems. But that poses some challenges for the developers' business model. He would normally sell license to his technology, knowing that you had to deal with him going forward. How do you make it work for him, too? Maybe very small revenue shares across a wide swath of publications. His swath is wide enough to create material revenues but leaves the local share large enough for the economics to work there, too.
As I mentioned yesterday, I'd be really surprised if newsreaders would broadly adopt games that took much time. I think we've learned that one key difference in news consumption between print and Internet is that Internet consumers are looking to get in, get satisfied and get out. Clearly, our goal should be to keep them engaged longer and with more satisfaction. But if they begin on our sites with this "efficiency" motivation, there certainly would be a limit to their tolerance. The games should account for that, allowing readers to engage at whatever level and time their coffee break might allow. Maybe even letting them come back later and continue but having increments of success and satisfaction so that whether they return or not, they have a sense of completion. The way you complete a visit with a friend but know you'll see her again soon.
It needs to be relevant and fun to the audience -- not the newsroom. Relatively few people are going to engage in a game around some arcane political issue. Remember the business model requires scale. But it also must play to our reporting strengths. Sports, lifestyles, personalities are probably great places to start.
It needs to be constantly fresh, brief and recalled. I've talked about brief but the fresh part, I'm afraid, will take some human intervention. The "recalled" part is easier. One of the many lessons I learned from my friend Matt Thompson is about engagement and choice. The game should be portable, so you can play on your phone, on the site, via e-mail, maybe even in print. Exploit people's lifestyles to catch them when they want it. And create that community actively. Reward the audience for more engagement (Karma points on Vita.mn) and more personal information or if they bring others to the trough.
So, I keep coming back, especially after this morning's piece on NPR, to something that exploits really effective search. It is not necessarily dependent on proprietary technologies, which leans it toward "open source." With rudimentary semantic (text mining) technologies we were able at Hearst to use back-end search to automatically build out small sites daily, with virtually no human intervention. And pretty effectively. It also allowed us to anticipate certain news events (the death of some celebrity circling the drain, for example) and automate rudimentary page building based on search of wires, our archive and noise on the search engines. Those technologies have come a long way in a short time and many are now open sourced. The Jeopardy/Google experiment hints that you could do a wide variety of things just with effective search.
I know it's not this simple. But it's a start. I'd be interested in your feedback. After all, as Nigel Tufnel said, "It's a fine line between clever and stupid."
Ken Riddick
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The News Game Project blog will provide updates about the projects my colleague Kathy Hansen and I have worked on with our Knight News Challenge grant and the "Topic Tiles" project the clever Aaron Westre has been developing for us.
I'll point out research relevant to the area of games focused on news content or journalism and to the people who are creating those kinds of game experiences.
This will also be a place to follow the planning of the News Game brainstorming session we will be having at the University of Minnesota on March 11 - 13. More about that later.
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We lost our beloved Boxer, Riley, in June. I was devastated and did not feel ready for another dog. I was getting used to not having a 24-hour companion with me at our home and at my photography studio. While visiting our friend Lisa, who works for the ASPCA, my son asked if we could go take a tour of the Adoption Center. As we were there learning about all the wonderful animals and the amazing work the staff and volunteers do, Frannie came running up with a toy and melted my wife's heart. We then had a chance to meet her, and we all fell in love. Frannie found us, adopted us and we are living happily ever after.
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She is a perfect family member. She loves to play hockey and football, and loves to dig up treats we hide for her in the yard. She is with me all day and works as a greeter and professional photo bomber in my studio. Everyone loves her. She's a big girl, but we find room in bed with us or with our son. We love it—and Frannie is way better than a blanket.
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Reading all these adoption stories, and having adopted several cats (still have one crazy feline w/me) and an absolutely wonderful beagle/hound mix with just a touch of boxer & pittie, named Riley as well, but a female, I'm astounded that people still rely on petshops and breeders for their companions...there's no better pet than a shelter pet as I"ve learned over the years...and best wishes to you and your new BFF...
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Havelock football coach Jim Bob Bryant appreciates the support his team receives from the community.
The football stadium was packed on Friday, not just for the game, but to pay tribute to Janie Queen – a 2010 Havelock graduate who lost her life in a car crash on Thursday afternoon.
Ribbons were been handed out, a moment of silence took place and balloons were set free in honor of Queen, a former Havelock cheerleader and softball player.
Bryant said Havelock is a tight-knit community.
It showed on Friday night.
"We are very close knit," Bryant said. "That's one of the reasons I came here was for the support that fans give to our school and athletes. I'm happy to be coaching at Havelock with a bunch of great kids, great coaches and great fans."
The Rams went on to win the Coastal 3A Conference for the fourth-straight season with a 67-13 victory over West Carteret on Senior Night.
Senior Pharoh Cooper showed every bit of his Shrine Bowl-caliber.
Cooper threw four touchdown passes, ran for two more and returned a punt for a score.
"(Pharoh) is a great football player and he's turned into a great quarterback," Bryant said. "When you have weapons around him, like we have, and an offensive line that blocks as well as they do, it makes play-calling a lot easier."
The University of South Carolina commit threw for 212 yards, all in the first half, and connected on three touchdown passes to senior C.J. Lindsey (42, 41 and 57 yards).
"We were on point tonight," Cooper said. "We had two pass plays that we designed to get the ball to C.J. He was Johnny on the spot when he caught the ball."
The second-ranked Rams (9-1, 6-0 Coastal) jumped out to a 61-6 lead at halftime.
Senior A.J. Coplon hauled in a 32-yard touchdown pass from Cooper, and returned a punt 51 yards to the end zone.
London Duvall scored on a pair of rushing touchdowns (17 and three yards).
"We pretty much dominated that first half and finished," Cooper said. "Every time we touched the ball, we scored. Everybody did their jobs."
Havelock gained 435 yards of offense. Duvall ran for 79 yards, while junior standout Derrell Scott was limited to six carries for 49 yards.
Lindsey caught four passes for 152 yards.
Defensively, Havelock limited West Carteret's offense to 188 yards. Coplon and Taylor Woods each had an interception.
The Rams recorded five sacks – Malcom Ashley, Harry Caldwell, Andrew Vanover, Anthony Fisher and Akenno Godette.
The Havelock seniors have just one conference loss in four years – a defeat to West Carteret in 2010.
The Rams finish the regular season at West Craven next Friday. West Carteret (5-5, 2-4) hosts Washington.
Bryant will be gunning for his 100th head coaching victory against West Craven.
"It's exciting for me, but getting to celebrate it with good coaches we have here at Havelock and the good players, it's going to be special," Bryant said. "Hopefully we can get that win.
"It will be a good milestone, but I don't want to put the light on me. I want to shine the light on my coaches and players."
Havelock 67, West Carteret 13
West Carteret 0 6 7 0 – 13
Havelock 21 40 0 6 – 67
First quarter
H – A.J. Coplon 32 pass from Pharoh Cooper (Dylan Baker kick), 9:52
H – Cooper 3 run (Baker kick), 6:05
H – Cooper 66 punt return (Baker kick), 4:29
Second quarter
H – Cooper 19 run (Baker kick), 9:59
H – Coplon 51 punt return (kick blocked), 7:23
H – C.J. Lindsey 42 pass from Cooper (Baker kick), 5:42
H – London Duvall 17 run (conversion failed), 4:33
H – Lindsey 41 pass from Cooper (Baker kick), 2:11
WC – Joseph Grant 37 run (kick missed), :14
H – Lindsey 41 pass from Cooper (Baker kick), :3
Third quarter
WC – Trevor Festerman 12 run (Dylan Mayer kick), 6:29
Fourth quarter
H – Duvall 3 run (conversion failed), 2:59
Team statistics WC H
First downs 18 19
Rush-yards 53-173 26-180
Comp-Att.-Int 2-12-2 11-20-1
Passing yards 15 255
Total yards 188 435
Fumbles-lost 3-0 1-0
Punt-yards 4-115 0-0
Penalties-yards 8-75 9-130
Individual statistics
Passing – West Carteret: Jared Carr 2-11-2 15, Rodney Mitchell 0-1-0 0. Havelock: Pharoh Cooper 9-12-0 212, Aron Rossi 1-6-0 31, Travis Sabdo 1-2-1 12.
Rushing – West Carteret: Trevor Festerman 17-97, Joseph Grant 12-63, Devon Godette 7-44, Jordan Meadows 7-22, Kyle Erice 1-2, Makai Collins 1 (-3), Mitchell 2 (-12), Carr 6 (-40). Havelock: London Duvall 7-79, Derrell Scott 6-49, Donte Stackhouse 7-30, Cooper 3-26, Rossi 3 (-4).
Receiving – West Carteret: Kris Lindner 1-10, Trevor Festerman 1-5. Havelock: C.J. Lindsey 4-152, Duvall 3-51, A.J. Coplon 2-29, Rossi 1-19, Deshone Godette 1-4.


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Scouting Report: Colt McCoy has been in incredibly productive quarterback at the University of Texas. How that will translate to the NFL remains to be seen. McCoy has great poise and leadership and is a very athletic football player. He makes decent reads, and and is typically a very accurate passer. He's got a quick release and good upper body mechanics. But all these strengths don't mask the shortcomings in his game. He plays in an offense that shows little resemblance to the NFL, and is very good at masking what you aren't good at. In terms of his game, I don't like that McCoy seems to float his passes and rarely throws a dart. That to me translates to late throws in the NFL and interceptions. He's more instinctive as an athlete than a quarterback, and I'm just not sure how well he can function in a conventional NFL offense.
Draft Status: Seems most pundits have McCoy pegged as a first round pick. I am not sure that it's warranted but nonetheless the hype machine is up and running and so he'll find his way into the 1st. I see him as more of a second round type player a lot like Pat White last year.
Final Analysis: McCoy has been a great quarterback for the Longhorns bringing them much fame and lots and lots of wins. But I think what has happened is, people are looking at that success, and the success of Vince Young and assuming these things will all translate to a great NFL career. But he's got some real shortcomings to his game that fans haven't seen the past 4 years at Texas. He's a leader and he's got great command of the game, and he appears to be coachable which means he has potential to get better. But at least going into the NFL, he is going to have to make a lot of changes to how he plays now.
Reminds me of: Alex Smith, QB San Fransisco 49ers-These guys are so much alike it's scary. Big hyped college quarterback, funky offense, questionable arm strength, more athlete than quarterback, and even similar in size.
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Flounders Seafood House on Hotel Drive closed Saturday after 10 years.
Chris Tompkins, owner of Flounders, said he had been thinking of closing the restaurant for about a year to concentrate more on his coffee house and catering business.
"It was the economy more than anything," he said.
Tompkins owns Thee Catering Company and Craven Coffee House and Café, which is in the Student Center of Craven Community College.
"I was really going more in that direction," he said. "I've been thinking about expanding the coffee houses."
Flounders employed 15 workers. Some of them will continue working with Tompkins at his other businesses, he said.
"The restaurant had a lot of overhead and the local economy was not there," he said.
Tompkins said he got in the restaurant business through the inspiration of his grandfather, who opened Tony's Drive-in in New Bern and ran it for 22 years before closing in the 1970s.
"That started me on the path of the restaurant business," he said. "I've been in it 25 years now."
In 2002, Tompkins started Flounders on Neuse Boulevard and later moved to Hotel Boulevard, he said.
"I was actually planning on closing Jan. 1," he said. "I've been playing with the idea quite some time."
Tompkins said he was also trying to simplify his life.
"I love the food business and I don't want to get away too much," he said. "The catering business will keep me busy."
Tompkins opened the Craven Coffee House and Café last year and, between that business and Thee Catering Company, he employs 10 people, he said.
"After 10 years (with Flounders Seafood House), I had to reinvent myself and go on," he said.
Tompkins said he is really thankful for his friends and family who helped over the years.
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