Is it that or is it prices and taxes are too high? Too much cheap garbage for sale at an exorbitant price.
Wages rising faster than inflation!
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Is it that or is it prices and taxes are too high? Too much cheap garbage for sale at an exorbitant price.
yer all a pack o gluttons should be forced to live on beans taters and bread and water fer awhile.
Don't I know it? If you have 3 meals a day, clothes on your back and a warm, dry place to sleep, you are better off than about 75% of the world! And still we want more!
If Melvin Douglas was alive I'd have him recite his famous line that he spoke to Paul Newman in the movie Hud,,,"you have no check on your appetites at all. You live only for yourself, and that makes you not fit to live with". All Hud wanted to do was put his biscuits in the gravy while it was still hot.Don't I know it? If you have 3 meals a day, clothes on your back and a warm, dry place to sleep, you are better off than about 75% of the world! And still we want more!
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Those look like 1970's stats, the world is much better off financially today than 40 years ago. Even this lefty website says less than 50% of children live in poverty and I think that is still way too high an estimate.Don't I know it? If you have 3 meals a day, clothes on your back and a warm, dry place to sleep, you are better off than about 75% of the world! And still we want more!
http://www.statisticbrain.com/world-poverty-statistics/
This lefty website says only a little over 11% of the world's population is undernourished and I think that estimate is too high.
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world hunger facts 2002.htm
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You really think so? IF so, with the idiot box, there is probably more awareness and more agencies helping out, by the same token there's a billion or more people on the planet than 40 years ago.
Wages have certainly lagged behind inflation for the past few years. Tradespeople especially have a bunch of catching up to do.
And yet many minimum wage earners will argue they have the most catching up to do!
Who is the regular worker ?Is that you at 50 or you at 16 ?
Did they need to go to university on government loans to get an education that doesn't produce results ?
Sounds to me they would have been better of taking a sales job after high school and see where it takes them .
Far easier to cry woe is me I guess .
Most of those so called agencies are helping themselves first and foremost .
Most good trades people I know that work fulltime are making 100,000 plus . Catching up maybe but hungry no .
That is a bit of a misnomer. When I was the age of my grand children and their peers we never had near the collateral they do. We possibly had one second hand vehicle, a radio, b & w T.V. our houses were much simpler, we never had money for tattoos, concerts etc. Saturday night consisted of a few beer and that was about it. We didn't fly out to Mexico or Hawaii once a year or spend half the winter in fancy ski chalets, instead we rode a toboggan down the local hill. We did things like played board games.
You have to be careful- I generally trust the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, World Vision and War Amps with my paltry donations.
