Job creation from a 1%er
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We will probably eat meatloaf with him on Thursday night.....Nah. Local builder. Lost his license to build in the county a long time ago. But I did get a kick out of him punching out a building inspector in the front yard of a house he was building. The realtor told us about that and my wife replied "My husband and him will get along just fine.".
You are right. I think if we all could solve these unfortunate problems we would be among the 1 percent club. Now if I could just have 10 bucks for each of your messages.....
Frozen Canuck
Minister of Fire
Whoda thunk that a little 6 min vid about a few of the reasons why wages going up are a good thing for the economy, woulda generated so much, ya know who I can't stand, its them dirty rotten stinkin lazy poor people. Wonderful world aint it. Gotta hate a "them" or there is just no reason to get up in the morning. Think I will sleep in.
Grisu
Minister of Fire
You missed about the last 20 years of global politics or do you really think in those countries the government still sets the wages? There are plenty of other examples for livable minimum wages e. g. in Europe ( http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/31/europe-minimum-wage-lifestyle-wages.html ). Or take the Scandinavian countries that don't even have a minimum wage due to strong labor unions.
Many Scandinavian countries require mandatory enrollment in the military. Imagine how that would go over here!
Ashful
Minister of Fire
Ashful
Minister of Fire
Grisu
Minister of Fire
I survived that; there are worse things in life - like working for a minimum wage without end.
I'm finishing up a roof at the blue route and rt 1 . Come on over I will pay you to roof with me. Then you can buy good whiskey
What do you think would happen if everyone that had a minimum wage job did not show up for work tomorrow ? That would probably solve this problem
Grisu
Minister of Fire
Assuming an all-out strike and closed borders: Since most of our food production from farming to retail and restaurants relies heavily on low-wage workers we would feel that very quickly. I would give us two weeks tops and in retrospect the proposed $10.10 would have looked like a bargain.
And the best part....the horse has already left the barn.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...fails-to-beat-inflation-chart-of-the-day.html
The minimum wage has already been increased by roughly 30% over the past 4 years, taking it from an inflation adjusted record low at the beginning of the O administration, to a level that is higher than at at any time since the early 80s. Meep Meep.
And yep, according to Pew, 71% support a further increase....
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/04/5-facts-about-the-minimum-wage/
It seems that when there are a lot of under 30 voters, like in the 60s and today, there is a sudden push to increase it.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...fails-to-beat-inflation-chart-of-the-day.html
The minimum wage has already been increased by roughly 30% over the past 4 years, taking it from an inflation adjusted record low at the beginning of the O administration, to a level that is higher than at at any time since the early 80s. Meep Meep.
And yep, according to Pew, 71% support a further increase....
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/04/5-facts-about-the-minimum-wage/
It seems that when there are a lot of under 30 voters, like in the 60s and today, there is a sudden push to increase it.
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combined with baby boomers retiring,,,,having failed to save enough for retirement, and wanting the min wage job to supplement their income
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the key sentence"The loss of better-paying manufacturing jobs in the last three decades and the growth of service industries may be another reason why wages have failed to keep up with inflation, Zentner said." MAY BE? hell, the gov't knows there is nowhere to work these days. why else would unemployment run 99 weeks when 40 years ago it was 13? those earning minwage deservedly get assistance which wasn't mentioned. what is the indexed rate when those gov't programs are factored in? the gov't helped create this mess and they are doing their best to maintain it. one wonders how those that have dropped out of the job market can survive, perhaps because of a benevolent, sympathetic gov't. remember, since the beginning of the Presidents first term, you don't have to work to get assistance.
stoveguy2esw
Minister of Fire
yeah, just read about those things a couple weeks ago, seems almost a billion dollars in "bitcoin" just up and disappeared. company went bankrupt, no FDIC insurance the people who had their money in it can sue, but bankruptcy has been declared so they will be luck to get "2 Bitcoins to the dollar" back. at least with "monopoly money" you have a piece of paper with a number on it.
bet the folks who lost all that money wished the currency had been government backed when they lost it
That was a single "dealer". Bitcoins are not gone. Its kinda like waiting out the market at this point. Don't get me wrong - I think they are a joke. No monetary/asset backing just doesn't make sense to me. But the coins are still being used.
Everything you ever wanted to know:
http://www.arimaa.com/bitcoin_get/
Now - lets get back to...errr...whatever the heck this thread is about.
http://www.arimaa.com/bitcoin_get/
Now - lets get back to...errr...whatever the heck this thread is about.
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