Experts say high food prices are here to stay. Here’s why.

[Waffle SS]

IM2's article title uses the language "way down." No serious or authoritative source uses such language. Find me a legit source, and then we can talk.

 

[initforme]

What?! Places around me are already paying $15 an hour for unskilled labor. You think they should get $45, or almost $90,000 a year?

Nope. Sorry. That would drive prices skyhigh. If people want to earn more than minimum wage, they need to acquire a valuable skill.

$15 an hour for a high school dropout is fine.

I can see $25. Nobody should do those jobs for $15.

 

[pknopp]

The debt has run at least since Reagan.

Sure. None of it defendable. Really kicked in with Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden.

 

[IM2]

That’s true. The MARKET determines what valuable. And low-skill jobs have low value.

As I said, people who don’t like earning minimum wage should crack down on their studies, finish high school, and at a minimum get an A.A. degree or complete a vocational program.

If they are lazy or just plain dumb, they are stuck with minimum wage. Buddy up with another MW worker and rent a modest apartment.

I'll simply say that there is no such thing as a low-skill job and that if you want maximum output or production, you will not get it by paying a minimum wage. Sure you can pay part-time teenage workers the minimum wage, but once they turn 18 which is considered adult, they deserve to earn adult wages. No full-time worker should be paid less than what it costs to live in their city and state.

 

[IM2]

I can see $25. Nobody should do those jobs for $15.

Exactly. Prices do not have to rise. The owner will just have to live on less profit. That can be done.

 

[Waffle SS]

I'll simply say that there is no such thing as a low-skill job

 

[IM2]

I have run businesses. Have you?

 

[Lisa558]

I can see $25. Nobody should do those jobs for $15.

And that would cause the prices to skyrocket. Don’t you have any understanding of business? You will create a vicious cycle. Raise wages. Prices increase. Raise wages again to cover the higher cost. Prices increase even more.

 

[Lisa558]

I'll simply say that there is no such thing as a low-skill job and that if you want maximum output or production, you will not get it by paying a minimum wage. Sure you can pay part-time teenage workers the minimum wage, but once they turn 18 which is considered adult, they deserve to earn adult wages. No full-time worker should be paid less than what it costs to live in their city and state.

It costs about $80,000 to live a very modest life in NY. Should we pay McDonald’s workers $80,000? Say hello to a $20 Combo meal.

You leftists have no concept of business, economics, or p&l.

 

[Lisa558]

I would say we should pay people enough to get by in the city where they live, which for uneducated and unskilled workers requires sharing a cheap apartment and eating all meals at home.

 

[IM2]

It costs about $80,000 to live a very modest life in NY. Should we pay McDonald’s workers $80,000? Say hello to a $20 Combo meal.

You leftists have no concept of business, economics, or p&l.

You are a stupid ho. I have run businesses. I have also worked the cash register at McDonalds as a young man. When you run the hourly tape, you discover that McDonalds makes a whole lot of money. In my small town, they made over 1 million per month. In NYC it's probably 10 million per month. So they probably can pay workers 80,000. To live In smaller towns in NY, it won't take 80,000.

Now your way means that working people end up on government assistance. They very assistance your dumb ass barks about as being handouts. You right-wingers are a bunch of IDIOTS.

 

[Waffle SS]

I have run businesses. Have you?

Sure you have!

 

[Waffle SS]

You are a stupid ho. I have run businesses. I have also worked the cash register at McDonalds as a young man. When you run the hourly tape, you discover that McDonalds makes a whole lot of money. In my small town, they made over 1 million per month.

The average McD franchise makes 3 mil per year. You don't know squat about biz because you never ran your own business.

Did you work the register with Kamala?

 

[Waffle SS]

Yeah, racism, sexism, and transphobia.

Oh, sexthism.

 

[OKTexas]

What you didn't calculate is, with a few million illegals deported, who is going to harvest the crops that have to be selectively harvested.

Such as : All tender fruit, cabbage, broccoli, melons, Artichokes, Peppers, Table grapes, Pumpkins, Lettuce

The same damn people that were doing it before they arrived. Most of the new arrivals are in metro areas, not many crops to harvest there.

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[initforme]

And that would cause the prices to skyrocket. Don’t you have any understanding of business? You will create a vicious cycle. Raise wages. Prices increase. Raise wages again to cover the higher cost. Prices increase even more.

People have to live. They're not here so you pay low prices.

 

[initforme]

It costs about $80,000 to live a very modest life in NY. Should we pay McDonald’s workers $80,000? Say hello to a $20 Combo meal.

You leftists have no concept of business, economics, or p&l.

Don't buy the combo meal. Eat at home if you don't like paying it.

 

[initforme]

And that would cause the prices to skyrocket. Don’t you have any understanding of business? You will create a vicious cycle. Raise wages. Prices increase. Raise wages again to cover the higher cost. Prices increase even more.

If nobody applies for those jobs that would be great for the nation.

 

[kyzr]

Trump said he’s going to deport illegal aliens.
Now you’re saying he’s not going to do that?

Trump will prioritize deportations, starting with the 1.4 million Biden has court orders on, then moving to criminals and freeloaders.
Trump can get many to self-deport by offering a bonus to leave now and re-apply, otherwise if caught, never a chance to enter.

Clinton deported 12,000,000 illegals
Bush deported 10,000,000
Obama deported 5,000,000. (the deporter-in-chief)
Trump-45 deported about 2-million. (chart below)
Biden deported about 1-million (one source) 5-million (chart below)
Trump-47 will deport ____________________

Yes, Obama deported more people than Trump but context is everything

President Donald Trump wants to deport a lot of people this weekend. "You know what? They came in illegally. They have to go out," he told reporters Friday as he confirmed that planned immigration raids would go ahead in certain cities starting this weekend.

www.cnn.com

"According to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute, more than 12 million people were “deported” – either removed or returned – from the US during the Clinton administration. More than 10 million were removed or returned during the Bush administration. Far fewer – more than 5 million – were removed or returned during the Obama administration."

Fact Check: Did Trump deport more migrants than Biden?

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Tuesday that deportations had plummeted under President Biden.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Lisa558]

You are a stupid ho. I have run businesses. I have also worked the cash register at McDonalds as a young man. When you run the hourly tape, you discover that McDonalds makes a whole lot of money. In my small town, they made over 1 million per month. In NYC it's probably 10 million per month. So they probably can pay workers 80,000. To live In smaller towns in NY, it won't take 80,000.

Now your way means that working people end up on government assistance. They very assistance your dumb ass barks about as being handouts. You right-wingers are a bunch of IDIOTS.

I stopped reading when you called me a whore, you nasty idiot.