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I always wondered why the US can't make anything anymore. Our dollar is not very strong at all. Germany, Japan, Canada, and Britain all have stronger currency and all manage to export goods. I wonder why the US has such a hard time competing.
I'm not an economics guy, so I might be misunderstanding your argument, but I do know that the Canadian and US dollars are pretty much at par (it favours you to the tune of four cents on the dollar this morning). It's not currency, it's the outsourcing of jobs. It's nothing new, it's been happening for decades.
If you want my advice, become a plumber. You can't outsource plumbers.
What specific liberal/Democrat policies encourage the growth of part-time, low paying jobs, while simultaneously resulting in the number of full-time, higher paying jobs staying flat and/or declining? Also, how would certain conservative/Republican policies affect the growth of each type of job?
Sounds like somebody doesn't like Obama and therefore blames him and his types for bad news.
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Obamacare encourages the growth of part time jobs. That's a Democratic disaster...er I mean policy
0bamaCare is designed specifically to kill the incentive to hire full time employees, and to limit the number of full time employees.
I wouldn't say specifically, but its bad for business. I'm for Universal Healthcare, but it shouldn't come at the expense of employers. There's more than enough to cover it if cuts were made in other areas.
It was not as in your face when we had easy credit and inflating assets.
People lived on debt and didn't notice. HELOCs were a way of life for the middle class and lower class and even the poor. Someone with NO job could get a home and mortgage for over 100% of the value.
But once the bottom fell out reality reared it's ugly head..Americans can't afford to live in America.
It was not as in your face when we had easy credit and inflating assets.
People lived on debt and didn't notice. HELOCs were a way of life for the middle class and lower class and even the poor. Someone with NO job could get a home and mortgage for over 100% of the value.
But once the bottom fell out reality reared it's ugly head..Americans can't afford to live in America.
??? how do the poor get HELOCs? i had a job and i couldn't get a mortgage, what's up with that?
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don't play stupid
You're the one being stupid here are you playing at it or just being yourself?
Companies have played the 'temp' game for many years before Obama was even known outsider his family. And it's hardly a temp job when a company has a 'temp' workers doing the same jobs as regular employees for more than 10 years, it's a weasly way around paying full wages and benefits, nothing more.
That is not the point being made here, and you know it.
Companies like Walmart and McDonalds were giving their employees health care, and giving them more hours, way before the disastrous 0bamaCare became law. Union members were were also getting health insurance, long before 0bamaCare.
Then 0bamaCare became law, and it forced companies like McDonalds, and unions to drop their health care insurance. If they were well connected enough, and lucky enough, these employers were able to go on bended knee before 0bama and beg for a coveted 0bamaCare waiver, or else drop health care insurance for their employees.
Now it's 2013 and more 0bamaCare law is going into effect, forcing employers to cut employee hours, or fire employees, all to avoid these new fees and expenses forced upon them by this stupid law.
If 0bamacare was not the law, a lot more employees would have jobs, more would have have full time jobs, and more would have health care insurance. This includes college students too. since 0bamaCare became law, many of the low cost health insurance plans these students enjoyed have been eliminated, and costs for insurance have skyrocketed.
That is such total bunk. I don't care what point you think you are TRYING to make - both Wal Mart and McDonalds - have been big, big fans of part-time employees for a long, long time. They didn't want to pay employee insurance then and they don't now. Nothing has changed.
Your argument just doesn't hold water.
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