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Never mind that as you are in your 60's means you 'came of age' in a very prosperous time. I'm sure you made the most of your opportunities...but the opportunities were there.
Where are they now? Is some kid coming of age *now* supposed to do what you did minus those opportunities?
Ever think that maybe luck had quite a bit to do with your success?
When I got started interest rates were 12%. Unemployment was 7.5% and inflation was 13%.
So either you didnt realize that this is all you posted on the last page, or you are asking us to read through 80 pages to find your point. no one is going to do that.
So lets make a compromise, simply state some example for us to debate over.
You know what I am saying. I've been saying it for years.
What made our economy strong those years when we switched from manufacturing to service base economy was the purchaseing power of our workers. We seen a weaking of this start in the late 1970s when the trend of inequal pay startted. Wages of the upper income levels have risen in pay by leaps and bounds and the middle class and poor wages have stagnantted or gone down. The purchaseing power of middle class and poor is what runs our economic welbeing.
Which says what? The problem is not wages but rather a lack of jobs. Obama is itching to make that even worse.
, I'd like to remind you, that the purpose of hiring people is to make a profit. If you cannot make a profit hiring someone, you won't hire someone.
Further, the purpose of being in business is to make a profit.
Given those two facts, your argument seems to be critical of the idea of being in business, without consulting YOU as to what level of profit should be made. Again, explain to me why you think you have ANY right to deny someone a job, because you don't think people with skill sets below a certain value should be employed.
Why should they? They give them a job. Entry level positions are usually a dime-a-dozen type jobs anyway. If the entry level job seeker isn't satisfied with the salary offered, he/she are free to go elsewhere and seek their entry level fortune. It's not a company's responsibility to cater to an employee.
No it isn't, but they must have a need for them, at least make it worth their while to show up.
I would be willing to bet you that the increase in food costs are a
direct byproduct of food stamps.
I also agree that my own home insurance policy's face amount is some $70K more than what the local realtors claim they could get for my house yet my insurance company swears that is the amount it would cost them to rebuild my house. I do get some tax breaks on my house because I get the homestead exemption and am over 65 years of age.
Indeed it is more difficult to go into business now than it was back when I went into business but it is still being done. It would be difficult for anyone to have enough money laid back to see themselves and their families though say a year's time while starting and getting their business on a stable footing. It should continue to be something to work for though because the payoff sure beats working for someone else and hoping for a thirty cents an hour pay raise.
I would argue that point, increase in food prices is a direct result of the increase in fuel prices, everything we buy at the store has to be delivered by truck and when fuel prices go up, they pass on the cost by increasing the food price or a fuel surcharge, which is also passed on in the end. What I would like you to explain is how food stamps increase food prices?
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