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If that were the case we wouldn't have inflation every year. Prices aren't goin down, the rich just pocket the increased profits.
Sure prices have went down since we started buying products made overseas. You must be a younger person not to realize that.
Show it. Link. Where is the deflation? What is your personal experience? Aren't you a trucker? I have worked for corps, they just keep the profits in most cases.
I said nothing about deflation. What I said is that prices are cheaper than when we used to make our own products here in the US. Go to a Walmart sometime with an older person and ask them what they think about prices today. Do you really think a 50 foot strand of christmas lights always cost $8.99? Do you think that AM/FM alarm clock radio always cost $15.00?
Back in 1980 I got my first apartment. The only entertainment at that time was a television set. There were no DVD players, cable television, hi-tech video games.....nothing.
So I wanted to buy the best television that I could afford. I purchased a Curtis Mathis 25" console for $1,500.00. Do you know what kind of television set you can buy for $1,500 today? Nothing even comparable. When you go to the store, check out what a 25" television set cost today; just a couple hundred dollars.
Okay, so I went out and bought the best, but even back then a decent 25" color television cost at least $500.00.
That really doesn't prove your point. Technologies change obviously. What you are saying was happening without being foreign made.
No, those products were made in the USA which is why they were more expensive then than today. Today we get our products cheaper because companies can produce them much cheaper either by moving overseas or investing in automation.
Lol do people just come up with these ideas on the spot?And yet it happens. What are we supposed to do with the kids? Put them asleep?Single parents can't survive on less than $15 per hour.
If you can't afford a child then don't have one.
No, but what we can do is have mandates for collecting welfare: anybody applying for welfare must be fixed first before getting one taxpayer dime. If you are a woman, you have to get your tubes tied. If you are a guy, you have to get a vasectomy first. That way we can stop people who use kids to get a larger welfare check, a larger SNAP's card, and a larger home in the suburbs from HUD.
No, but what we can do is have mandates for collecting welfare: anybody applying for welfare must be fixed first before getting one taxpayer dime. If you are a woman, you have to get your tubes tied. If you are a guy, you have to get a vasectomy first. That way we can stop people who use kids to get a larger welfare check, a larger SNAP's card, and a larger home in the suburbs from HUD.
That's insane. All you have to do is let people know welfare won't pay for more than one child. If they have anymore after that they're on their own.
Artificially forcing wages upward is inflationary. Inflation of the cost of goods and services weakens the economy.You mean hand out higher wages.
Beats declining to a weaker and weaker economy.
We have increased min wage before, who it has had an impact on inflation if that is your claim.
What do you think is the number one expense for any business?
Show previous increases have had an effect on inflation.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.You have it all wrong. The manager is in charge of hiring, training, staffing levels... The manager is obviously to blame. It is funny how you want to give the manager a pass though.
How do you suggest i prove it dipshit?
The workers are the one that messed up the order. Perhaps the manager, based on the low level mental capacity someone needs to work fast food, did the best he/she could with the shit he was provided to work with.
When things go well, you want to give workers all the credit.
Provide verifiable proof of your claim. I don't care how you do it and long as it's valid and verifiable. You made the claim. You say you're so smart. Surely that's not above the ability of someone who says he makes so much to do. If you won't, that's all I need to know you don't make it.
The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
What are you even talking about? Do you actually think that $133 per month pays for ALL of the expenses of a child? Come on, you're talking out of your ass and you know it.How can you people be so thick? The average amount a person gets on food stamps is $133 per month. How could that possibly be profit given the huge expense it requires to raise a kid? How has that not even occurred to you? So yeah, any poor single mom would want to avoid more kids.I don't know where you people get this idea that it's some rampant problem that poor single mothers are producing "litters". Sure it happens, but obviously if most poor single mothers have a kid, she makes an effort to not have more. You really get a kick out of demonizing these mothers don't you? Sometimes shit happens and people make mistakes. It's not like these moms are profiting off the government. Any assistance they do get is peanuts.Offer the kids for adoption?.....The idea that people of limited means can blithely create litters of kids whom they are financially incapable of caring for and then attacking sensible and responsible people for pointing out this fact, is absolutely absurd.
BTW, my hysterically emotional, that would be put "TO sleep"....UGH
Do you really think adoption is the answer? Do you really think there is a mass of people lining up to adopt kids? Is it morally right that a mother should be forced into the position of putting her kids up for adoption? Obviously everyone turns out better when they arent separated. I hate it how RWs kick up such a big fuss over abortion yet think children of poor mothers should not get financial assistance and put up for adoption instead. It's insane.
It's obvious that most poor single mothers who have kids make an effort to not have more? Prove it.
Since they are getting assistance and not paying into the pot from which they draw that assistance, profiting would be a good word. They put nothing in and get a return. The amount is irrelevant.
If you know what gets you pregnant, it's not a mistake.
I hate how LWers say what a woman does with her body is no one else's business yet when that woman can't afford the choices she make, the rest of us are expected to be responsible for something we were told to butt out off and be happy about it.
Again, your narrow focus is on the mom and not the child. I don't see how you are not getting this.
That's $133 more than she is contributing to the pot from which she draws. It's a profit because the return of whatever amount is greater than what was put into the pot from which she draws. Whether or not it's a profit is based on what she gets vs. what she contributes to that pot.
Prove your claim about any poor single mom wanting to avoid more kids. Are you telling me every single mom has only one kid?
I don't need to prove something that is common sense. The debt of raising a child - both financial and emotional - far outweighs a measly $133 per month in benefits. Obvioisly most mothers will attempt to avoid having more. Do you just assume all of these women are stupid? Your logic makes no sense.
Lol do people just come up with these ideas on the spot?And yet it happens. What are we supposed to do with the kids? Put them asleep?Single parents can't survive on less than $15 per hour.
If you can't afford a child then don't have one.
No, but what we can do is have mandates for collecting welfare: anybody applying for welfare must be fixed first before getting one taxpayer dime. If you are a woman, you have to get your tubes tied. If you are a guy, you have to get a vasectomy first. That way we can stop people who use kids to get a larger welfare check, a larger SNAP's card, and a larger home in the suburbs from HUD.
Artificially forcing wages upward is inflationary. Inflation of the cost of goods and services weakens the economy.Beats declining to a weaker and weaker economy.
We have increased min wage before, who it has had an impact on inflation if that is your claim.
What do you think is the number one expense for any business?
Show previous increases have had an effect on inflation.
So you don't know. I thought you understood economics. Any time the costs of running business goes up, prices go up. Prices increasing at a sustained level is inflation.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.The workers are the one that messed up the order. Perhaps the manager, based on the low level mental capacity someone needs to work fast food, did the best he/she could with the shit he was provided to work with.
When things go well, you want to give workers all the credit.
Provide verifiable proof of your claim. I don't care how you do it and long as it's valid and verifiable. You made the claim. You say you're so smart. Surely that's not above the ability of someone who says he makes so much to do. If you won't, that's all I need to know you don't make it.
The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Silly little liberal arts degrees get you no where...
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.The workers are the one that messed up the order. Perhaps the manager, based on the low level mental capacity someone needs to work fast food, did the best he/she could with the shit he was provided to work with.
When things go well, you want to give workers all the credit.
Provide verifiable proof of your claim. I don't care how you do it and long as it's valid and verifiable. You made the claim. You say you're so smart. Surely that's not above the ability of someone who says he makes so much to do. If you won't, that's all I need to know you don't make it.
The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Sure prices have went down since we started buying products made overseas. You must be a younger person not to realize that.
Show it. Link. Where is the deflation? What is your personal experience? Aren't you a trucker? I have worked for corps, they just keep the profits in most cases.
I said nothing about deflation. What I said is that prices are cheaper than when we used to make our own products here in the US. Go to a Walmart sometime with an older person and ask them what they think about prices today. Do you really think a 50 foot strand of christmas lights always cost $8.99? Do you think that AM/FM alarm clock radio always cost $15.00?
Back in 1980 I got my first apartment. The only entertainment at that time was a television set. There were no DVD players, cable television, hi-tech video games.....nothing.
So I wanted to buy the best television that I could afford. I purchased a Curtis Mathis 25" console for $1,500.00. Do you know what kind of television set you can buy for $1,500 today? Nothing even comparable. When you go to the store, check out what a 25" television set cost today; just a couple hundred dollars.
Okay, so I went out and bought the best, but even back then a decent 25" color television cost at least $500.00.
That really doesn't prove your point. Technologies change obviously. What you are saying was happening without being foreign made.
No, those products were made in the USA which is why they were more expensive then than today. Today we get our products cheaper because companies can produce them much cheaper either by moving overseas or investing in automation.
No that is what manufacturing does. They make better products at the same price or make better products at lower prices. There are many products still made here that have done exactly what you were describing. Sorry you have no proof so far.
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
And the skills required to do many jobs today require more education than 50 years ago. That's why those of us who gained those skills get paid at an exponentially greater level while those still doing things that require the same skills as they did 50 years ago have their wages raised only arithmetically.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Silly little liberal arts degrees get you no where...
Then you must have proof they are mostly liberal arts degrees.
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
And the skills required to do many jobs today require more education than 50 years ago. That's why those of us who gained those skills get paid at an exponentially greater level while those still doing things that require the same skills as they did 50 years ago have their wages raised only arithmetically.
Show it. Link. Where is the deflation? What is your personal experience? Aren't you a trucker? I have worked for corps, they just keep the profits in most cases.
I said nothing about deflation. What I said is that prices are cheaper than when we used to make our own products here in the US. Go to a Walmart sometime with an older person and ask them what they think about prices today. Do you really think a 50 foot strand of christmas lights always cost $8.99? Do you think that AM/FM alarm clock radio always cost $15.00?
Back in 1980 I got my first apartment. The only entertainment at that time was a television set. There were no DVD players, cable television, hi-tech video games.....nothing.
So I wanted to buy the best television that I could afford. I purchased a Curtis Mathis 25" console for $1,500.00. Do you know what kind of television set you can buy for $1,500 today? Nothing even comparable. When you go to the store, check out what a 25" television set cost today; just a couple hundred dollars.
Okay, so I went out and bought the best, but even back then a decent 25" color television cost at least $500.00.
That really doesn't prove your point. Technologies change obviously. What you are saying was happening without being foreign made.
No, those products were made in the USA which is why they were more expensive then than today. Today we get our products cheaper because companies can produce them much cheaper either by moving overseas or investing in automation.
No that is what manufacturing does. They make better products at the same price or make better products at lower prices. There are many products still made here that have done exactly what you were describing. Sorry you have no proof so far.
Show me where I could possibly find this proof and I'll be glad to. You guys on the left always ask for impossible proof because you know there is none out there, and then you think you've won the debate.
The fact is that when labor costs one-tenth of what it costs in the US, how could it not be cheaper to manufacture those products? And before you say the companies just pocket that extra cash, show me some proof.
You are the one making less than $15 an hour and can't stand the thought of other unskilled workers making the same.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Silly little liberal arts degrees get you no where...
Then you must have proof they are mostly liberal arts degrees.
You have yet to prove
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
And the skills required to do many jobs today require more education than 50 years ago. That's why those of us who gained those skills get paid at an exponentially greater level while those still doing things that require the same skills as they did 50 years ago have their wages raised only arithmetically.
Speak for yourself about wages.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?Typical union thug mentality. When the workers fuck up, the unionite blames management. That train has left the station.The workers are the one that messed up the order. Perhaps the manager, based on the low level mental capacity someone needs to work fast food, did the best he/she could with the shit he was provided to work with.
When things go well, you want to give workers all the credit.
Provide verifiable proof of your claim. I don't care how you do it and long as it's valid and verifiable. You made the claim. You say you're so smart. Surely that's not above the ability of someone who says he makes so much to do. If you won't, that's all I need to know you don't make it.
The manager hired and trained the person. Amazing you give no blame to the manager. Must be bad at hiring or training.
You said you have multiple degrees. Give verifiable proof. See how that works? You are really wasting time.
How are wages doing with the decline in unions? Not so well. You still believing the lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Silly little liberal arts degrees get you no where...
Then you must have proof they are mostly liberal arts degrees.
You have yet to prove
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
And the skills required to do many jobs today require more education than 50 years ago. That's why those of us who gained those skills get paid at an exponentially greater level while those still doing things that require the same skills as they did 50 years ago have their wages raised only arithmetically.
Speak for yourself about wages.
Stagnant wages is a fact.
I said nothing about deflation. What I said is that prices are cheaper than when we used to make our own products here in the US. Go to a Walmart sometime with an older person and ask them what they think about prices today. Do you really think a 50 foot strand of christmas lights always cost $8.99? Do you think that AM/FM alarm clock radio always cost $15.00?
Back in 1980 I got my first apartment. The only entertainment at that time was a television set. There were no DVD players, cable television, hi-tech video games.....nothing.
So I wanted to buy the best television that I could afford. I purchased a Curtis Mathis 25" console for $1,500.00. Do you know what kind of television set you can buy for $1,500 today? Nothing even comparable. When you go to the store, check out what a 25" television set cost today; just a couple hundred dollars.
Okay, so I went out and bought the best, but even back then a decent 25" color television cost at least $500.00.
That really doesn't prove your point. Technologies change obviously. What you are saying was happening without being foreign made.
No, those products were made in the USA which is why they were more expensive then than today. Today we get our products cheaper because companies can produce them much cheaper either by moving overseas or investing in automation.
No that is what manufacturing does. They make better products at the same price or make better products at lower prices. There are many products still made here that have done exactly what you were describing. Sorry you have no proof so far.
Show me where I could possibly find this proof and I'll be glad to. You guys on the left always ask for impossible proof because you know there is none out there, and then you think you've won the debate.
The fact is that when labor costs one-tenth of what it costs in the US, how could it not be cheaper to manufacture those products? And before you say the companies just pocket that extra cash, show me some proof.
Well of course you can't find it, what you have been claiming is false. I didn't say it wasn't cheaper to manufacture. I said they aren't lowering their prices when they move to cheaper labor. Look at the inflation rate, goes up every year. There is your proof.
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.
What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
Silly little liberal arts degrees get you no where...
Then you must have proof they are mostly liberal arts degrees.
You have yet to prove
Well we have more education, yet wages are stagnant.What do you base that on? More people have college degrees than ever.Which lies?
I explained earlier why wages are stagnant. It is because there are so many more people unwilling to improve their skill set or their education.
There are tons of higher paying jobs that go unfilled because firms cannot find qualified individuals to fill them.
And the skills required to do many jobs today require more education than 50 years ago. That's why those of us who gained those skills get paid at an exponentially greater level while those still doing things that require the same skills as they did 50 years ago have their wages raised only arithmetically.
Speak for yourself about wages.
Stagnant wages is a fact.
