Thuis period of hig unemployment is just another step down on the class of living scale for many Americans.
Get less from life for the same amount or more actual productive work.
Don't forget the employees are the one that actually amkes a franchise or business owner the money.
Of course if you pay them less they buy less. which would be bad if this were a consumer driven economy.
However because of cheap labor produced imports businesses must drop their wages to be competitive. Or automate more and reduce employee headcount.
Just a function of the machine of global economics.
And seperating the haves more widely from the have nots.
See the longer view people. Both forwards and backwards. And put a global spin on it.
And we cannot stop it folks, all we may be able to do is steer it a bit.
But I have seen none so far with the brains and balls to do what needs to be done for long term stability and prosperity of the American people.
This is just amazing. Nobody knows what went into the prosperity enjoyed by our country in the past and they just assume that our parents and grandparents were sitting on their collective behind and the Good Times Fairy swateed them all with his wand.
My dad worked two jobs. Mrs. Code's Dad was a master electrician when i knew him but in her youth he drove a school bus, owned a laundramat, did numerous jobs after hours and built his house with his own hands.
In the neighborhood in which I was raised, the neighbor across the street built his own house with his own hands. Dug the basement with a shovel.
I can't imagine the wailing and the screaming that would accompany the labor required to do this kind of thing, but in the past, it was expected that the man do whatever it took to get it done. That included lots of work and not much whining.
The good old days were good because our parents worked like dogs for peanuts and thanked God for the opportunity to do so. They'd look at most of us and shake their heads.
Ungrateful whimps.