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  1. What a revelation....not. Raising minimum wage was just one more way of enacting "wealth re-distribution". Paying people with little to no complex skillsets higher amounts of money effectively reduced the value of those of us who worked hard to get ahead wages. So if you started at the lower $5 per hour minimum wage and it took you 5 years to get up to $7 ...suddenly all those who are fresh are making what it took you years to earn? or do we force the companies to then raise every employee by the same percentage? No company can sustain that. It all goes back to entitlement and opportunity. No one "DESERVES" anything but to be treated equally under the law and have the same opportunities to work hard in life to achieve what you want to achieve. Now we are sabotaging an entire generation of teens ability to gain work experience because it is not practical for employers to maintain these wage levels. As if this generation is not already plagued with lack of responsibility and understanding of self reliance...we are now crippling the ones who try to learn what it means to earn a living ability to do so. Guess they will just give up and become reliant on the government handouts and add to the pool of lazy socialists we are developing in this country. Sickening.
    If you want to make more...find something you can learn to do that will qualify you for a job that pays a higher salary. It's all on your shoulders....not anyone else's to take care of you and make sure you get that high def tv you think you deserve. What is the next step....making everyone in the country earn the same thing regardless of their gumption or contribution...so we can all be "equal"?

  2. Nice to know the top dogs got raises while they cut the regular Lilly employees pay by 10% last year!

  3. I like the Colts, but I will always love the Pacers. There is no greater moment from my Childhood than Reggie beating the knicks and than 2000 making it to the finals. No worse feeling than Prince blocking Reggie. The Colts losing sunday doesn't even stack up. Reggie put this place on the map.

  4. After reading how much more everybody was paid, I took my daily hit of Zyprexa and do feel better and am now very happy that those exec got 25%+ raises. Got to leave to start my 3rd job.

  5. Wow, actually a coherrent answer from you. I am proud. Sure it took months of wading through a lot of 2 cent answers, but it is almost worth it.

    The problem with the competition aspect among tires, maufacturers and even to some point teams really does not have much depth in series racing anymore.

    Take NASCAR. Other than sponsorship, there really is no Chevy, Ford, Dodge or Toyota cars running. On Sunday, pretty much the same cars with the same engines running on the same tires will be take the green flag. About the only difference is the stickers on the cars. I think the reason for that is cost. NASCAR runs the series on the cheap side to get more cars 43 or so per event and to attract the PBR crowd. Contrast that with F1 which really does have true competition with cars that are not cookie cutter. The trade off, high dollar racing that limits it to 20 cars at most, and ticket prices that make it available only to the Perier crowd.

    Cart appeared to try to be the F1 light. Fewer ovals, more foriegn drivers, more international races and attract the wealthier crowd. It did not work for them. In the end, it was as much spec racing as NASCAR.

    The IRL on the other hand tried to stay the true American open wheel series by keeping costs low, support American drivers, on ovals in America. It survives, but has compromised many of its original ideas supposedly to attract the former cart crowd.

    SO I would argue that there is little of the competition you want in racing today. Blowing up the IRL and starting from scratch certainly will not get it. I think the best thing is for the IRL to position itself to come out of the recession with a definite business model and stick to it. I think coming up with an all new car design and if it is the wingless prototype, then so be it. I have never stated status quo is good. I think the IRL made a mistake when it started catering to the cart crowd. The IRL should have stuck to its original vision. Such is life.



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