10-07-2011, 05:37 AM
Acer wrote:
"There are plenty of jobs if people weren't so lazy" thing looks good in a conservative newsletter, but the math is just not there.
There are 13 million people out of work in the USA.
How many openings for rural lettuce pickers and urban Kroger stockers are there?
These low rent jobs are not plentiful enough to fill the gap, and low rent jobs do not pay enough to drive the economic engine of this country, which depends on consumers consuming.
Yes, you can get by on poverty wages. But after utilities, food and rent, you're not going to have much leftover for the high-margin gadgets and luxuries where the REAL money is for our economy.
That's just it, I was making the point that people making "poverty wages" aren't necessarily living in poverty. As far as everyone driving the economy by buying high-margin gadgets and luxuries; that was then, this is now. It may never be like that again. And considering how it happened (abuse of credit), I'm not sure it should. kj.