02-10-2005, 06:45 AM
Quote:First of all, Wal-Mart considers 28 hours a week to be full-time (in some areas). Second of all, they won't let everybody who wants to be full-time become full-time, because then they'd have to give them benefits. It's absolutely ridiculous reverse-Robin Hood-Reaganomics to get rid of minimum wage. At the very least, it's morally wrong, and it could cause riots.
Why don't people who work at Wal-Mart get another job besides that? It's 5 hour shifts, more than enough to get another job as well, or Hell, if you need the money that bad, get a new job! A full time job!
Quote:Yeah, I know, bit of a joke. It would've nice if we hadn't started the war in the first place, but it's a little late for that. See, now that's the John Kerry view, which was the correct one, and wasn't contradictory. We made a mistake, but now that we've made it, we have to clean it up. Since the executing smoking seniors thing didn't get me flamed, here's an opinion that should. Democracy in Iraq, over 30 million with "freedom", was worth 1000+ American troops, but it wasn't worth 1.5 billion American dollars and a debt that I'm going to be paying for the rest of my life.
We spent more than that on Social Security in one month.
Quote:If you were an insurance company, would you want to cover a senior who could have (or does have) complications and expensive drug prescriptions?
Maybe if you charged him higher prices?
Quote:Eazy way how to get most of the problem soved is by cutting back prices for everything.
House prices here nearly tripled where I live in the past year and a half and it's the same types of houses from before
Well, first of all, it could be for two reasons. One, interest rates have gone up in an attempt to stop inflation, causing house prices to rise. A second reason maybe because of a decrease in houses, an increase in demand, or both. In case of the first one, prices would go down if the government were to lower interest rates, and as for the second one, fixing prices would lead to shortages.