Soup De Jour

[Mother_Earth]

When I was young and in the infantry I almost froze to death while on a training exercise in Korea. The near death experience of it made me always want to choose freezing to death if I was ever going to have to pick my own doom. It's peaceful and rather painless, you just go to sleep and not wake up.



So hell for me is SERIOUS BUSINESS!! lol 

Though you're clinically depressed, self confidence comes through in your posts.  I know it's popular now to treat depression mainly with medicine, but I hope you're getting conselling with a professional therapist.  You're too intelligent to allow some woman to destroy you.

[lex]

Though you're clinically depressed, self confidence comes through in your posts.  I know it's popular now to treat depression mainly with medicine, but I hope you're getting conselling with a professional therapist.  You're too intelligent to allow some woman to destroy you.

Thanks for the encouragement. Madmen are generally self confident. No therapist, the one that was any good here in this small town left us. She got me through the really rough parts at first where I was pretty close to offing myself. She left and I ignored her advice of staying away from my X, thus I went through another major bout with depression that torpedoed a lot of my progress.

Just picking up the pieces now. I feel sometimes like I am just running out of gas. It's been a long road and I can understand why we die. We just get tired and wear out and welcome the big dirt nap. Immortality in this form would be truly maddening. 

[Mother_Earth]

Find another one!

[lex]

Time to change gears and the flavor of soup.

Dairy prices! What has become of the prices of stuff that comes from cows, and chickens too. Eggs have shot up so high in price, I am going to stop eating them. Cottage cheese has doubled in price!!?? What kind of BS is this?

Is it just these things? Has prices rose on other stuff? Are these high gas prices finally coming to hose us on stuff at the grocery store too now? How come only I don't hear people howling about this stuff?

[kimmi]

I have noticed it too.  Just yesterday I went to buy chocolate milk to make hot chocolate for my class and a half gallon was almost 3 dollars.  We have Lowes foods here and they use green stamp points.  I use my points for milk and butter.  I have been buying store brand items for quite a while now, but even they are going really high.  I guess the one thing about groceries that is different than gas is that we can choose not to buy something at the grocery store and replace it with something else - buying chicken thighs instead of chicken breast.  I'm a coupon clipper.  I try and save $20 - $40 each time I go with coupons and store discounts.  That has helped!  I will say this, the cost of groceries has made me COOK more.  It is too expensive to buy premade items and it is just all around better for me too. 

Lunch meat is the worst!  Since when is a turkey breast worth $8 a pound?

[lex]

I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the beginning of inflation from the minimum wage hike. The last time they increased minimum wages I watch the prices of everything go up for years to compensate for it and it made things far worse than it ever did help.

What these morons in Gov can't seem to get through their granite thick skulls is that minimum wage is related to inflation massively. See, our dollar isn't based off of jack shit any more. It used to be based off of a gold or silver standard once upon a time, but now it's just backed by our bullshit of saying that it's worth something. Our dollar is now falling in value, in Europe its taken a header, but we don't notice or care because the closest thing to noticing foreign currency is the Canadian quarters in our change.

Anyway, the only thing that has a standard on it relating to our dollar is minimum wage. It states that for our dollar you get X amount of time of labor. Now granted this labor is mostly unskilled, but its at least some kind of standard to which our dollar has some value attached to it. When you boil it down there is only two things you can get with money, goods and services. There is no dollar standard government protected for goods, but with the minimum wage there is somewhat on services.

Ok, given all of that, when you raise minimum wage, you decrease the worth of the dollar via it's only standard. By raising minimum wage, you decrease the value of the dollar. The people that get hurt the most by this are the people who are already struggling at the bottom who work for minimum wages.

See, businesses and corporations aren't going to take a profit hit over this, they will raise their prices to compensate. Everyone raises their prices to make up for this. So the increase in wage you get at the low end is quickly consumed by the inflation of prices. As this inflation cycles through the system, people are far, far worse off than before the increase of wage.

The only way you climb up the wage ladder is by increasing your wages personally. We'd be far better off spending money in supplementing getting people better job training and some education than messing with the minimum wages. American workerss are falling so far behind the world in skill it's pathetic. 

Anyway, I had forgot about the minimum wage hike. I knew it would come burn us, but I was hoping it wouldn't be noticeable so soon. I could be wrong about it being related to the eggs and dairy, but who knows? I am sure our gas prices have something to do with our dollar SUCKING compared to the Euro. They will NOT sell us gas at a loss when they can sell it abroad for more, so we will get burned by our pathetic dollar.

[me]

I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the beginning of inflation from the minimum wage hike. The last time they increased minimum wages I watch the prices of everything go up for years to compensate for it and it made things far worse than it ever did help.

What these morons in Gov can't seem to get through their granite thick skulls is that minimum wage is related to inflation massively. See, our dollar isn't based off of jack shit any more. It used to be based off of a gold or silver standard once upon a time, but now it's just backed by our bullshit of saying that it's worth something. Our dollar is now falling in value, in Europe its taken a header, but we don't notice or care because the closest thing to noticing foreign currency is the Canadian quarters in our change.

Anyway, the only thing that has a standard on it relating to our dollar is minimum wage. It states that for our dollar you get X amount of time of labor. Now granted this labor is mostly unskilled, but its at least some kind of standard to which our dollar has some value attached to it. When you boil it down there is only two things you can get with money, goods and services. There is no dollar standard government protected for goods, but with the minimum wage there is somewhat on services.

Ok, given all of that, when you raise minimum wage, you decrease the worth of the dollar via it's only standard. By raising minimum wage, you decrease the value of the dollar. The people that get hurt the most by this are the people who are already struggling at the bottom who work for minimum wages.

See, businesses and corporations aren't going to take a profit hit over this, they will raise their prices to compensate. Everyone raises their prices to make up for this. So the increase in wage you get at the low end is quickly consumed by the inflation of prices. As this inflation cycles through the system, people are far, far worse off than before the increase of wage.

The only way you climb up the wage ladder is by increasing your wages personally. We'd be far better off spending money in supplementing getting people better job training and some education than messing with the minimum wages. American workerss are falling so far behind the world in skill it's pathetic. 

Anyway, I had forgot about the minimum wage hike. I knew it would come burn us, but I was hoping it wouldn't be noticeable so soon. I could be wrong about it being related to the eggs and dairy, but who knows? I am sure our gas prices have something to do with our dollar SUCKING compared to the Euro. They will NOT sell us gas at a loss when they can sell it abroad for more, so we will get burned by our pathetic dollar.

The Dem's would try to convince you otherwise though.  IIRC I stated almost the same thing before this even passed in some other threads and was told I was full of it.  I even know some people who were due raised that didn't get them because of the minimum wage hike so they actually lost ground because the raise they were scheduled for would have had them making just over what they are making with the min wage increase.  WTG Dem's.....

[Henry Hawk]

I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the beginning of inflation from the minimum wage hike. The last time they increased minimum wages I watch the prices of everything go up for years to compensate for it and it made things far worse than it ever did help.

What these morons in Gov can't seem to get through their granite thick skulls is that minimum wage is related to inflation massively. See, our dollar isn't based off of jack shit any more. It used to be based off of a gold or silver standard once upon a time, but now it's just backed by our bullshit of saying that it's worth something. Our dollar is now falling in value, in Europe its taken a header, but we don't notice or care because the closest thing to noticing foreign currency is the Canadian quarters in our change.

Anyway, the only thing that has a standard on it relating to our dollar is minimum wage. It states that for our dollar you get X amount of time of labor. Now granted this labor is mostly unskilled, but its at least some kind of standard to which our dollar has some value attached to it. When you boil it down there is only two things you can get with money, goods and services. There is no dollar standard government protected for goods, but with the minimum wage there is somewhat on services.

Ok, given all of that, when you raise minimum wage, you decrease the worth of the dollar via it's only standard. By raising minimum wage, you decrease the value of the dollar. The people that get hurt the most by this are the people who are already struggling at the bottom who work for minimum wages.

See, businesses and corporations aren't going to take a profit hit over this, they will raise their prices to compensate. Everyone raises their prices to make up for this. So the increase in wage you get at the low end is quickly consumed by the inflation of prices. As this inflation cycles through the system, people are far, far worse off than before the increase of wage.

The only way you climb up the wage ladder is by increasing your wages personally. We'd be far better off spending money in supplementing getting people better job training and some education than messing with the minimum wages. American workerss are falling so far behind the world in skill it's pathetic. 

Anyway, I had forgot about the minimum wage hike. I knew it would come burn us, but I was hoping it wouldn't be noticeable so soon. I could be wrong about it being related to the eggs and dairy, but who knows? I am sure our gas prices have something to do with our dollar SUCKING compared to the Euro. They will NOT sell us gas at a loss when they can sell it abroad for more, so we will get burned by our pathetic dollar.

LEX, that is what consevatives have been saying for years.............why is it, that this does not make sense to the opposition?...it is really basic math.

Nice explaination..

[me]

LEX, that is what consevatives have been saying for years.............why is it, that this does not make sense to the opposition?...it is really basic math.

Nice explaination..

Is this where we get to say "told ya so"  HH?   

[Henry Hawk]