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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Low wage? Most jobs start out above 9.00 here. To the average joe that is a pretty good starting wage. Jobs at Mapco start at over 9.00 an hour here. The jobs I saw last night all probably start even higher than that. Housing market is booming here. Construction is booming. Economy is booming. Period. Current unemployment rate is 4.5% for this month 4.7% for the quarter.
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Tut tut tut tut - Can we lift the thread out of the gutter Sticky??
It's not a damned contest baed on primative political persuasions and a desire to be relevant. Suggest you get the fundamentals in order, then start typing.
Not gonna give a full reply to your post - it's just another mix of cherry-picked fact, fiction and personal opinion.
Your opinion of jobs and low/high/whatever wages is just your opinion - nothing more. They may be good locally - so what? Nationally the minimum wage is the lowest of all industrialized countries - tho, there is/has been legislation passed, or about to be passed, to change this?? Whatever the scenario is - when folks spend 160% of these high wages, they are either underpaid or on a permanent unsustainable credit card shopping spree.
Again, "your" housing sector is "booming" - nationally it certainly is not, and not dissimiliar to the housing markets in several other countries, tho the background is a bit different. The "booming housing market" has foreclosures up 42-43% and on target to hit a record by the year end.
Construction is "booming" - sheesh, do you live in Utopia?? *lol*. Most of the major home-builders are trying to dump their "land stock" simply because they have little prospect of constructing homes on that land in the forseeable future and need cash now.
Have you been reading naughty propaganda websites again, listening to Fox News and the faultless opinions and judgement of the current administration? That's bad news Sticky - you should know better and live in the real world
