Prevailing Wage

I like it, I love it, I want some more of it... God, I need to stop working in construction... I can't believe I just quoted a country song... blech. Anyway, the country line for me is not meaning I want more love, making love, or brownies, but that of money. It is like I have just been given an eleven dollar an hour raise this morning, even if it is temporary, the next four or five weeks (if I work that long for Brian) I am working on a job site in Dayton which is prevailing wage. This means boys and girls that it is on government land, and in the contract this means that they have to pay everyone who is working on the buildings a specific set wage ('cause the government really wants to be socialistic, barstards). And this wage happens to be 11 goddamn dollars more an hour than I make. Fuck YEAH! I'll go to work for nearly twenty-five dollars an hour...
Prevailing wage is a funny thing, much like raising minimum wage, on the surface it seems a pretty great idea, but in the end it is only worse in the long run. When the government decides to raise minimum wage, initially all the poorer people who this effects (a small minority) are quite happy to be making a bigger buck. And they will stay happy for a bit, but this is because they are complete morons and so ill educated that it is the reason they make minimum wage in the first place. But what really happens is that first and foremost, all of that money the following year at tax time is taken back away from them, because the taxes wouldn't be revised until the following year. Most of them would probably qualify for a higher tax bracket (even if it's only a little higher) and then who makes out on the deal? Oh yes, the government. They raise minimum wage so that their income is higher the next year. Of course, not everyone is ever happy with a wage raise, most disapprove. Like those of whom that have stuck around a crummy job for so long that their wages are a dollar or so higher than the minimum wage, until whoops, when it raised and they have to start over again back at square zero. They end up making the same amount of money as those people who just started in that position. Then there are the long term effects, which basically it fucks with inflation of the dollar value. Goddamn it. It raises inflation. It is a bad idea to raise minimum wage all the time (though sometimes it is necessary I concede). I digress...
Premium wage is much the same thing. When everyone comes onto the job they all make the same thing. Now this means that there are those who usually make more than that and therefore take a pay cut if they were to work on this job. So, in most cases they don't. Therefore, you have a bunch of incompetent newbies (like me), who don't know their right from left working on these buildings (like schools and such). Let me tell you, it is a fucking mess of a show. The building of course, besides being constructed often poorly, take a long fucking time to construct as well (compared to other jobs), because who the hell wants to move quickly when they are making top dollar? Not me. And this of course effects a goddamn lot of other things that one would normally not associate with the construction of buildings at all, like city politics and business relations with the community and etcetera. What I am trying to say, I guess, is that there might always be a silver lining in everything, but in the end, that fucking cloud is still a fucking thunderhead. Okay, let me try again... Just because I am making a shit load of money, doesn't mean it is a good thing for anybody. But much like an idiot who can't see too far ahead of himself, or doesn't even care to look, I'll take the money and run, 'cause that's the kind of guy I am. I hypocritically criticize the benefactor while he hands me my dope money.
Peace out peoples,
-sib-