Seran do you ever respond to people who ask you questions or do you just post random responses to posts from 10 pages ago?
Seran do you ever respond to people who ask you questions or do you just post random responses to posts from 10 pages ago?
I have no problem with the WHO rankings whatsoever. I just feel they support my side more than yours.
The #1 ranked country spends the 4th highest amount per capita.
The first country I would even consider looking at as being a good medium would be Iceland or Norway.
Both of whom engage in price fixing.
Last edited by Laize; 2012-11-16 at 03:53 AM.
I love pizza, I sometimes make my own and its so yummy!!#@#!!
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No, a business exists to make money, they do that by selling you something you may or may not need, but their marketing convinces you that you do need/want it.
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And so was the stimulus program...
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Stimulus program for 'shovel ready' projects that weren't spent more money and employed less than the defense industry did... and lets not even begin examining the request from the administration to the defense contractors about 'dont send out your pink slips before the election, if you get sued we'll pay the costs'
no... lets not look at that request at all.
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funny thing, for that 20B$ number you quoted... you can buy 120+ F-35s, as the flyaway cost is 154M, might want to check your facts, or cut the dishonesty next time.
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But thats the thing, you dont notice, or you just aren't paying attention, plenty of successful folks inherited nothing, were given nothing and are successful. But those folks are counter to your silver spoon arguement... Several examples to shoot holes in your claim, every single inner city kid that did make it big in sports, just to point at one particular group.
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More people talking about economics that have no idea what the hell they are talking about yay!
Point A: The economy is actually fine omg who knew?!
Point B: As stated and mentioned countless times during the election, these voters wanted romney because he supports a model that only benefits corporation growth vs middle and lower class growth. To put it simply those two named companies, papa johns and whatever energy company that was wants in layman's terms more money in their pocket. What they are threatening to do has nothing to do with the actual economic growth and the plans obama has for the country.
Point C: Obama is actually in this term, following quite the opposite of his actual campaign promises. AKA he is investing in american environmentally unsafe policies. Reducing subsidies giving more jobs in the end goal which will cause the country to go into an economic expansion and giving us more money.
TL;DR stfu about the economy it's fine and secondly the expansion is happening now.
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Min wages have been falling behind a lot in the last few decades And it has NOT been keeping pace with inflation.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-1...f-the-day.html
Not opinion just mere facts. this slacking behind is a major reason for all the welfare we have to pick up, think of it as WELFARE to WALMART since they arent paying a living wage someone has to pick up the tab and it is the taxpayer so infact we are subsiding walmart.
The price of cheap is anything but cheap when you factor in all costs around this business that hits the taxpayers in the end
If it wasnt for the increases in federal min wage that took place in 2008-2010 at the end of 2007 Min wage was when adjusted for inflation 41% LESS as in LOWER than it was in 1967. If losing 41% of the wage when adjusting for inflation is "kept pace with inflation" I hate to see what is not keeping pace with inflation.
Yeah there was a time when min wage was a decent wage but it was a long long time. And we have not continually been raising the min wage we have gone decades without it. Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 contained 3 increases in the federal min wage that was at $5.15 at this point 5.85 6.55 and finally 7.25 was part of this Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. We got the 5.15 level on September 1st 1997. we had 2 cases on min wage increases happening in the 1990s April 1990 was the 1st change of the min wage before that it had been laying unchanged since January of 1981. at the level of $3.35
""The federal minimum wage has never included a feature by which it automatically increases each year to ensure that it maintains its purchasing power. As a result, Congress has to act to provide such adjustments.
These adjustments have not always occurred in a timely fashion. Nonetheless, from 1938 to 1981, they did occur with enough regularity that the minimum wage generally either rose in purchasing power or remained relatively stable in real value."" Last being commentary from CBPP but it displays that up until 1981 min wage was mostly keeping pace with inflation after that it stopped.
And an interesting thing happened at the same time Reaganomics spread like a plague across the country. We have had right wing hard agenda being the business model for 30 years and this is where the welfare checks to corporations started to be given out and fast forward and min wage is slave wages no doubt about it since at just a few years ago it was slacking behind by over 40% in just keeping pace with inflation. That is a massive welfare check to guys like Schnatter that complains over having to pay 3-4 cent in healthcare per pizza he sells. Guess he didnt complain when wages never increased for decades while his profit did.
Hey!
Let's all get mad at this guy now.
"Florida Restaurateur to Impose Surcharge for ObamaCare".
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/florid...obamacare.html
Now if a place like Starbucks were to follow suit, minds would be blown. Not saying they are. But Denny's, not so much.
Obamacare could well affect them by 5%.
Restaurants are allowed to pay their workers a fraction of the minimum wage because of tips. Because of that, an increase in spending from ACA is more likely a much larger percentage of their expenditures than it would be for corporate Papa Johns.
Do you have access to his records?
Why do you automatically assume he's using Obamacare as an excuse to gouge when he's well within his rights to raise prices in response to increased costs?
You guys seem to get update when companies DON'T raise their prices and instead attempt to appeal the decision and you get upset when they DO raise prices and don't fight it.