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how is the economy effecting you?
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on August 08, 2010, 09:02:07 am ---I didn't say it wasnt bad right now, but if you tell businesses that this is a horrible economy over and over again, they will start cutting fat and stop hiring. I dont think that news anchrs should get on the TV for hours at a time bragging about how bad the economy is, that is just going to make it worse. It was one of the tools to get the democrats elected in 08, but when it started working and everything went down hill it got out of hand.
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I can see your point. But it is wrong. If things are going swimmingly, an employer deserves to go broke if they cut staff just because the TV told them to. If they are making money, they are making money. They need staff to do that. When they announce that there is 9.5% unemployment, I can believe that to be a fair indication that things aren't going brilliantly in that economy. Our unemployment rate is under 6% at the moment and THAT"S too high...
javeryh:
I am still employed and thankful for it. I took a 15% pay cut last year as did everyone else but this year they are paying it back in the form of a bonus provided you are still here in March 2011 when it actually gets paid out. It sucks though because bonuses get taxed more. My wife works part time (basically as much or as little as she wants). The good thing is that earlier this year we finished paying off my Rav4 so we have no debt other than the mortgage. I really hope things start picking up - even though I've been fairly busy at work I could use a little job security.
jamesjones626:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 08, 2010, 09:02:24 am ---It is effecting me in a positive way.
There is a lot more cheap labor out there.
Why pay anyone $15 an hour when you can get people for $6.50.
Let's hope it stays this way for a while. :applaud:
Happy days.
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i love mexican labor too my friend. Why pay someone full price when you can get us for a case a beer? I like this attitude of "get the illegals out!". Now for most people when they hear illegal aliens they think mexicans and nothing else. In my opinion the USA need us here, its a necissary evil.
shateredsoul:
In California
Fees and registration at UC schools (University of California public schools, includes UCLA, UC Berkeley, and my school) have gone up up up!
My pay as a Teaching Assistant and now a Graduate Student Researcher has not gone up, but they cover tuition and give you some $$ at the end.. not so bad. Unfortunately family student housing has been going up by $100 each year for the last few years (our pay doesn't go up to match). Two years ago the rent was ~ $1200 now it's ~1400 (and 5 years ago it was ~ 900). Rent in the surrounding city has not gone up by this much and living off campus is actually a bit more appealing.
We ha 2 bedrooms and are renting one for $500 so we are ok financially but we are feeling very cramped. My wife's Dad lost a bunch of work so we're helping out her family (my wife works full time at a biotech).. so yeah. It sucks. Can't complain overall, but we should be saving for a wedding (we were hoping to have a Catholic wedding and already had a civil + small reception).
not happening anytime soon..
WhereEaglesDare:
--- Quote from: jamesjones626 on August 09, 2010, 11:15:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 08, 2010, 09:02:24 am ---It is effecting me in a positive way.
There is a lot more cheap labor out there.
Why pay anyone $15 an hour when you can get people for $6.50.
Let's hope it stays this way for a while. :applaud:
Happy days.
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i love mexican labor too my friend. Why pay someone full price when you can get us for a case a beer? I like this attitude of "get the illegals out!". Now for most people when they hear illegal aliens they think mexicans and nothing else. In my opinion the USA need us here, its a necissary evil.
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Okay here I go, off the deep end....
If there was no minimum wage then employers could play legal workers what they thought they were worth. With Minimum wage at 7.25 they have to sit and think, is that guy WORTH my 7.25 an hour.... Plus all minimum wage increases do is create a false sense of a pay raise, when it goes up, so do the costs of most products because the people making, ordering, selling, shipping these products also may get a "pay raise" which in turn increases the cost of the labor across the board.
If the government wasnt making employers pay a minimum wage at a point of a gun, then labor would be cheaper for legal citizens and workers and the cost of most products would go down.
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