What if it Snows?

Beggars pizza is pretty yummy. Probably going a need a stent after eating a wall of cheese. Chicago sausage is better than most. It's basically some what spicy Italian sausage on a pizza.

 

I can't seem to be able to catch a break. This morning I have a bad Tonic-Clonic Seizure. Thankfully Nurse Ratched was here. She started to do the 5-minute thing and after 5 minutes I was still out of it. She said I was sitting at this PC as she was making my breakfast and started hearing my Dexcom monitor go off. She came running and got me on the floor. Within minutes Keri was calling. She follows me on Dexcom and gets notified when I have an issue. My blood sugar was 42 and dropping. Nurse Ratched finally called for an ambulance and administered Glucagon. I came to with Nurse Ratched on her knees beside me talking to Keri. Several minutes later she let the EMTs in. I declined to go to the ER and by that time I was able to sit back in this chair. Keri is a mess, but there is nothing I can do about it now. My right knee and ankle are so sore I can hardly walk. I also think I chipped another tooth! I told another friend that I was ready to start driving for Swift now! (inside joke between us, not a slam against any Swifties in here)

 

We may be looking at about the same low percentage of home owners. Then again I should reword my version to Land owner. I do not consider people that "own" condos, a place in an "executive community", or Mobiles in parks as home owners cause they do not own the land. They have required monthly payments far in excess of the true cost to maintain the property and pay property taxes. The best thing those folks can do for themselves is "sell" and get some real property. The system has set a high percentage of the people up to fail. What I would like to see is a long term reeducation and raising of goals regarding retirement and Social Security.

I do agree that raising the minimum wage is inflationary. Unfortunately I see it as one of the few functional tools to combat the run away cost of property markets. I say that because I do not see any way for local municipalities to require a high percentage of, for lack of a better number, $100,000 starter homes with property included in the price. It would just not be financially viable.

In my Ideal world scenario I would like to see the federal Minimum wage indexed with inflation. The Federal reserve targets a 2% growth number for GDP. I believe we need to start looking at indexing to that approximate number. OR increase it at the same rate as Social Security Cost of living increases. Should we look at a Federal bump beyond the slow growth I have mentioned? Maybe, I would start negotiations at about a 10% bump which would be less than 1% per year since the last bump. I can be talked down from that percentage. Should we spike the federal min wage to $15 per hour..... F''' No!

The previous paragraph was for Federal Min Wage. State and Local governments need to step up and address their local bad situations of affordable housing verses minimum wage. The state and Local governments need to fix their regional issues.

In my area the local employment agencies have done an effective job of setting minimum wage. The lowest paying temp agency jobs are around $14 per hour for poultry processors and pot groomers. Penskie is staffing up a D.C. up the road and are advertising for a significantly higher rate for order pickers. Mostly because they are in competition with a couple of grocery D.C.s up the road that had already increased base pay to attract workers. The bigger local family run places are suffering from attrition/turnover and lack of applicant pool because they are refusing to address low pay. They have been out of touch with their employee's reality for so long I am not sure they will ever be robust businesses again.

Just my 2 nickles (inflation arggh), use at your own discretion.

 

All interesting and well presented, just don’t see where it invalidates my position that SS recipients are getting screwed when they paid into a system for a lifetime and receive less than a burger tosser, especially when the minimum wage causes inflation

 

If SS recipients have been messed over it is when they were scammed into believing their contract with the gov't entitled them to a full living wage. Social security is supposed to be supplement to be paid in retirement, A hedge against inflation. Not a living wage.

the other side of the question:

Minimum wage is supposed to be the minimum wage to survive on. a person should not need welfare to subsidize it.

 

Here is a fun Fact about minimum wage: One of the countries that has the highest pay for new workers and for average hourly workers in the world has NO MINIMIN WAGE. It is Germany.

Let the market dictate and it will always decide what is the right pay, at the right time, for the area and market. The best part of all letting the market dictate is free as we won't have to pay "super smart people" or the "poverty pimps" to come up with the correct amounts to pay people and with no government involvement to mess it up.

So, let's let the Market Dictate what the price should be.

 

Thank you for that.

At one time I had a philosophical discussions with other retail business owners around how as a regulation Minimum wage actually works to lower minimum base pay because it is a written in stone goal to achieve. Rather than pay all the employees a local living wage, takes time and resources to figure out what that is, the goal becomes to pay minimum wage a known easy number.

Germany would not face that artificially lowered expectation.

 

That roof design will never support a snow load.

 

Minimum wage is an artificial floor that makes some people feel like they care. If you really care about the uneducated masses make minimum wage a true living wage say 30 bucks an hour. Wait you think that’s too much so you wish to legislate happiness but you wish to ration ? Let the market decide everything else is just liberal blather.