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Yea sure that’s why I just got a job offer that I’m about to take. You think I mope around all day thinking that I can’t get up and do something to change my situation and the world around me? Some things I can’t change. I work as a caddie at a golf course. Today I went down there and...

If there is $100 in the money supply, then banks can lend $1000 in loans. If they charge 20% interest, then a year later $1200 is owed. My question is, how are the borrowers supposed to pay back $1200 in loans, when there is only $1000 in the money supply?

This is too much of a true story and too many facts for the average ET poster. You should focus on calling people deadbeat losers if you want to keep a thread going around here.

Actually I love macaroni and Top Ramen and don’t really care about fancy food, so it’s easy for me.

Someone from the Fed probably made a phone call to a moderator threatening to reinstitute the uptick rule. Either that or good discussions are not encouraged on ET. Can’t decide which.

Think about what you are saying. You are saying that business would increase due to no more taxes, but have forgotten the other side of the story. Yea some people would have more of a paycheck, but a whole lot of people would have nothing. Seniors would have no social security check. Medical...

It’s obvious that it’s been awhile since you worked in one of these places. Why do you think that because you are not running a charity that that gives you the license to treat your employees as if they are volunteering at one? I’m sorry, but demanding that I as an employee receive a...

What are you talking about? The poor are the ones most hurt by inflation. They spend 100% of their income, and everything they buy now costs more. They do not make more money to make up for it because wages never keep up with inflation. Plus, even if they did, they would have to pay payroll...

He had to have been a somewhat new driver because otherwise he would have told you 0. It’s simple, before there was a delivery charge the pizza was $10 and the driver would get something like $1 for mileage, which is included in the price of the pizza ($10). Once the fee was added, the pizza...

Yea exactly. So why can’t they pay their people more out of the higher price? If McDonald’s can pay someone $8 an hour to sell $5 sandwhiches, how come Ruby Tuesday has to pay people $2.13 an hour to sell $12 sandwhiches? Doesn’t make sense. The food cost is not exponentially more.

Yes and no. Obviously McDonald’s has so many restaurants that they only need to make a little on each one. My sister works at an upper class burger and steak restaurant. She says that on a busy night, sometimes they’ll do $10,000 an hour in sales. I went to Applebee’s the other day. On a...

They are not low and a lot of the costs are adjustable based on sales. Why can McDonald’s sell a sandwhich, fries and drink for $5 but Ruby Tuesday charges $10 for the burger, plus $2 for the drink and then on top of that you have to shell out another 15-20% for “unpaid” labor costs? It...

Yes of course there are alternatives. Most of them touted by people like you and most others on ET involve the poor and middle class living with less and less so that a few select people can have more and more. I’m surprised to see so many people like you telling the little guy to live...

Or maybe employers could just pay their employees more? They’ll pay less taxes doing that. People like you live by theory’s, not facts. If a state were to secede, that wouldn’t increase wages, it would decrease them. What is the savings of 35% of 0? That’s how much all the people laid of...

How am I supposed to stop my health insurance from going up 15% a year? Go without it? Yea wow why didn’t I think of that? A job with health benefits from a company that’s hiring, yea there’s plenty of those around these days. Where were you over the past 30 years when housing...

No, this country is fucked up because the middle class is systematically being wiped out. People like you stand by and tell the little guy that he has to rent a house, meanwhile the Fed and corporations pillage the economy for their own benefit. I suppose according to your thinking, when food...

Yes work hard and eat Top Ramen so the Man can have caviar.

How am I supposed to stop my health insurance from going up 15% a year? Go without it? Where were you over the past 30 years when housing prices have advanced well past the rate of wages? People who have perfect credit history are having their credit cards jacked up to 25%. Education...

I have delivered pizza for 6 years. You are wrong about Hispanics. They are generally pretty good tippers and don’t complain a lot. They do annoy me when they call up and demand that someone take their order is Spanish. A lot of white people are pretty high maintenance, but they are easier to...

Now there’s a concept most on ET will never get. I have asked this question so many times here and have not gotten one good answer. How are people supposed to save and get ahead when their cost of living keeps going up and up, but their incomes remain flat or sometimes even fall...