Why can't Public Assistance increase?

[Czernobog]

No one filibustered you... Democrats passed everything they wanted.

This is why rational discussion is impossible with the "New Right". Because they don't just have their own opinions. They have their own definitions for heretofore commonly understood terms. They have their own version of facts. They have their own version of history. They, literally, exist in a completely separate reality from the rest of us. So, it is impossible to have rational discourse, as we exist in different realities.

This is a perfect example. In the reality of the "New Right" apparently, Obama, and the Democrats had only two things that they wanted to accomplish in two years. And the rest of the time they...I don't know...sat around diddling each other? Because all that got done in two years was the stimulus package, and ACA. But, in the reality of the "New Right", there was no obstruction. Obama, and the Democrats had complete, iron-fisted control of the entire Congress. And with that control, they passed a whopping two pieces of legislation.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So tell us what happened to the MOM and POP stores when Walmart opened?

In Vegas alone we had 13 grocery stores close when Walmart opened their neighborhood markets.

Try to convince anyone that isn't price fixing. Good luck.

I see the problem now: you don't understand what price fixing is.

What happened to the Mom and Pop stores? They closed. Why? Because CONSUMERS decided to shop at Walmart. Believe it or not, they did so willingly.

Nobody tied a rope around them and dragged them into the stores, nobody pulled out a gun and forced them to shop at Walmart, Walmart didn't have private investigators take pictures of those women cheating on their husbands and blackmail them to shop there, they did it all on their own, and gladly I might add.

Except that's not exactly how that happened. You left out a few things. Sam Walton may have started out as a "small business man", but Walmart was never a "small business". Wal-mart went from being a publicly own corporation in 1970 to over 200,000 stores nation wide in five years. And they did this through a simple formula. Stores were built in every community, and the goods of whatever local merchandise retailers were bought and sold in bulk, shipped to all of their stores nationwide, something the local retailers simply could not do, allowing Wal-mart to undercut the prices of those local retailers rather dramatically. Now, it didn't really matter that the quality was also somewhat inferior. To working class families, being able to save money was important, especially with the economic squeeze that was ensuing. To assist with the illusion that Wal-Mart was just a "bigger, cheaper" version of your local retailers (your "Mom & Pop" stores), Wal-Mart hired copious numbers of staff to give the illusion that they could, and would give the same personal attention to customers that the local retailers did.

This had several effects. First, it created good public relations. After all, Wal-Mart was the saving institution that was bringing jobs to an economy badly in need of jobs. Second, Wal-Mart "proved" they could do everything the "om & Pop's could cheaper. The problem is, it was a lie. it was an illusion. Once Wal-Mart had effectively pushed the individual retailers out of business - around the mid-1980's, a strange thing happened. Two actually. First, prices began to rise at Wal-Marts all across the nation. Second, Wal-Mart began laying employees off, citing economic hard times. The problem with that claim is that Wal-Mart stock continued to soar. Wal-Mart continued to record huge profits quarter after quarter. The "economic hard times" really didn't seem to be hurting Wal-Mart's corporate profits, yet there were the lay-offs. And by then, consumers really didn't have a whole lot of choice. Wal-Mart had effectively priced the local competitors out of business, so people would shop where they could. And this has continued to today. Once Wal-Mart knew that it was "the only game in town", they knew that they could treat their customers, and their employees any way they like, and everyone would just "take it", because, after all, where else are you gonna go?

Now, things have improved a little in recent years, due mostly to competition created by other super-chains, like Target, and the advent, and explosive growth of online shopping that affords a convenience that even Wal-Mart is incapable of matching. They are trying to correct this by creating an online presence of their own. Time will tell if they will be able to do in the virtual world what they did in the physical one.

Now, was what Walmart did illegal? No. But it was mercenary, disingenuous, ethically ambiguous, and, at the very least, distasteful. So, one can understand why folks might have a less than favourable view of the corporate conglomerate.

Utter bull. Target has been around for decades.

What you are trying to convince me is that simultaneously, Walmart knocked out all those stores while at the same time raising prices. Why don't I believe that?

People still shop at Walmart over their competitors. And I have yet to see any example where Walmart did what you say; close down everybody in a nearby area and being the only store in town.

Walmart has the cheapest prices yesterday and today. People chose Walmart over all others because of that. Walmart has it's share of problems like any other business. In fact, it was late last year when they closed down a ton of stores including the one where I live.

When a Walmart opens up in your area, it's customers that make the choice to shop there. Walmart doesn't come out at night and burn the other stores down. In fact, we had a Walmart that closed down years ago because they wanted to open up a bigger store nearby. It was a brand new mall, and the other stores depended on Walmart bringing customers into their stores. In fact, the smaller stores had it in their contract.

Walmart is considered an Anchor Store, meaning their shoppers will also shop at their competitors. Once Walmart left the new mall, the mall turned into a ghost town because the smaller store contracts were broken due to the anchor store leaving. They couldn't survive without Walmart.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

You don't think a business person doesn't know how much her/his competitors are paying. A prospective employees visits 5 or 6 businesses all paying the same shit pay. They need a job, And there is your superior strength or influence to intimidate.

If you don't like the wages offered, then find somebody that offers the wages you demand. If nobody is offering those wages, then you aren't worth the money you are asking. How much simpler can it get than that?

A workers worth is determined by how much other people will do the same job for. That's it. That's why your floor sweepers and shelf stockers make minimum wage or somewhere in the area; because anybody can do that job including a monkey.

Monkeys don't demand any wages at all.

Ray- how dare you pollute this board with your common sense free market mumble jumble. Paying people who sweep floors is not about what the job is worth or how qualified somebody has to be to do it. No, it's about feeling sorry or guilty for making so much filthy money for providing a service or product that people want. But you just have to be rational, have you no shame sitting in your ivory tower that was not given to you? It's disgusting thought like yours that built this country into the most powerful and successful country in history, and frankly people like me find it appaling. Die you rich, hard working, educated piece of shit.

 

[JoeNormal]

They had two years to get things done, and what did they do? Ruin healthcare for many of us. Put us further and further into debt with these Socialist programs while at the same time, creating record government dependents. Attack our banks so that credit worthy customers have to pay more for services so that the lowlifes who generally vote Democrat don't get charged late fees on their loans and credit cards. Even cigarette smokers seen huge increases in the cost of their tobacco.

Where are these credit cards that have no late fees? I've never seen them and I hate republicans as much as the next guy.

Obama signs credit card reforms into law

Hardly sounds like an attack on the banks but having been hit with a few fines over the years for stupid things, I'd say this was long overdue.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Hardly sounds like an attack on the banks but having been hit with a few fines over the years for stupid things, I'd say this was long overdue.

And you think they dig deeper into their pockets, don't you?

Guess who supplies credit cards? Banks. Those banks made money on irresponsible borrowers that didn't pay their bills on time. When DumBama forced them into a longer grace period and lower interest rates, banks lost money.

So how did they recoup that lost money? By charging their responsible borrowers.

I never paid a balance transfer fee in my life until DumBama rode in on his horse. Now every credit card company has to charge a balance transfer fee to stay alive and make up their losses thanks to DumBama.

It was a good political move since most irresponsible people vote Democrat, but made it harder on responsible people (who usually vote Republican) because now we have to pay the bill instead of them, and we are the good customers.

 

[Czernobog]

So tell us what happened to the MOM and POP stores when Walmart opened?

In Vegas alone we had 13 grocery stores close when Walmart opened their neighborhood markets.

Try to convince anyone that isn't price fixing. Good luck.

I see the problem now: you don't understand what price fixing is.

What happened to the Mom and Pop stores? They closed. Why? Because CONSUMERS decided to shop at Walmart. Believe it or not, they did so willingly.

Nobody tied a rope around them and dragged them into the stores, nobody pulled out a gun and forced them to shop at Walmart, Walmart didn't have private investigators take pictures of those women cheating on their husbands and blackmail them to shop there, they did it all on their own, and gladly I might add.

Except that's not exactly how that happened. You left out a few things. Sam Walton may have started out as a "small business man", but Walmart was never a "small business". Wal-mart went from being a publicly own corporation in 1970 to over 200,000 stores nation wide in five years. And they did this through a simple formula. Stores were built in every community, and the goods of whatever local merchandise retailers were bought and sold in bulk, shipped to all of their stores nationwide, something the local retailers simply could not do, allowing Wal-mart to undercut the prices of those local retailers rather dramatically. Now, it didn't really matter that the quality was also somewhat inferior. To working class families, being able to save money was important, especially with the economic squeeze that was ensuing. To assist with the illusion that Wal-Mart was just a "bigger, cheaper" version of your local retailers (your "Mom & Pop" stores), Wal-Mart hired copious numbers of staff to give the illusion that they could, and would give the same personal attention to customers that the local retailers did.

This had several effects. First, it created good public relations. After all, Wal-Mart was the saving institution that was bringing jobs to an economy badly in need of jobs. Second, Wal-Mart "proved" they could do everything the "om & Pop's could cheaper. The problem is, it was a lie. it was an illusion. Once Wal-Mart had effectively pushed the individual retailers out of business - around the mid-1980's, a strange thing happened. Two actually. First, prices began to rise at Wal-Marts all across the nation. Second, Wal-Mart began laying employees off, citing economic hard times. The problem with that claim is that Wal-Mart stock continued to soar. Wal-Mart continued to record huge profits quarter after quarter. The "economic hard times" really didn't seem to be hurting Wal-Mart's corporate profits, yet there were the lay-offs. And by then, consumers really didn't have a whole lot of choice. Wal-Mart had effectively priced the local competitors out of business, so people would shop where they could. And this has continued to today. Once Wal-Mart knew that it was "the only game in town", they knew that they could treat their customers, and their employees any way they like, and everyone would just "take it", because, after all, where else are you gonna go?

Now, things have improved a little in recent years, due mostly to competition created by other super-chains, like Target, and the advent, and explosive growth of online shopping that affords a convenience that even Wal-Mart is incapable of matching. They are trying to correct this by creating an online presence of their own. Time will tell if they will be able to do in the virtual world what they did in the physical one.

Now, was what Walmart did illegal? No. But it was mercenary, disingenuous, ethically ambiguous, and, at the very least, distasteful. So, one can understand why folks might have a less than favourable view of the corporate conglomerate.

Utter bull. Target has been around for decades.

What you are trying to convince me is that simultaneously, Walmart knocked out all those stores while at the same time raising prices. Why don't I believe that?

That's not at all what I tried to convince you of. That wasn't simultaneous. It was in order. First came the "knocking out" of the local retailers, with prices designed to undercut the local businesses. Once those businesses were no longer in existence, and could not offer any competition, then came the slow steady increase in price, decrease in customer care, and noticeable lack of increase in quality.

People still shop at Walmart over their competitors. And I have yet to see any example where Walmart did what you say; close down everybody in a nearby area and being the only store in town.

What competitors? That's just it, Ray. There are no competitors any more. There are super chains. There is Wal-Mart, or there are the super chains that are located in the local mall. There are no local small business to compete. Really? So, you have a selection of tailors, and haberdasheries, and locally owned clothing stores in your town? I would certainly like to know where you live. Because I have lived in Kewanee, Illinois, Charleston, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Huntsville, Arkansas, Charleston, South Carolina, Phoenix, Arizona, and several other places, large, medium, and small. And do you know what all of them had in common? There was a Walmart in every place. And there wasn't a local small business specializing in clothing, groceries, or even hardware left anywhere. So, you apparently live somewhere really special, if all of those locally owned businesses still exist where you live.

Walmart has the cheapest prices yesterday and today. People chose Walmart over all others because of that. Walmart has it's share of problems like any other business. In fact, it was late last year when they closed down a ton of stores including the one where I live.

Cheaper than whom? Choose them over whom? I refer you to my previous paragraph.

When a Walmart opens up in your area, it's customers that make the choice to shop there. Walmart doesn't come out at night and burn the other stores down. In fact, we had a Walmart that closed down years ago because they wanted to open up a bigger store nearby. It was a brand new mall, and the other stores depended on Walmart bringing customers into their stores. In fact, the smaller stores had it in their contract.

No, they didn't. They didn't have to "burn them down". all they did was price them out of business.

Walmart is considered an Anchor Store, meaning their shoppers will also shop at their competitors. Once Walmart left the new mall, the mall turned into a ghost town because their contracts were broken due to the anchor store leaving. They couldn't survive without Walmart.

Again, what competitors, Ray? The other national chains? Because there are no locally owned appliance stores. No locally owned 5 & Dimes. No locally owned clothing stores. No locally owned electronics stores. There are chains, and franchises.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

No one filibustered you... Democrats passed everything they wanted.

This is why rational discussion is impossible with the "New Right". Because they don't just have their own opinions. They have their own definitions for heretofore commonly understood terms. They have their own version of facts. They have their own version of history. They, literally, exist in a completely separate reality from the rest of us. So, it is impossible to have rational discourse, as we exist in different realities.

This is a perfect example. In the reality of the "New Right" apparently, Obama, and the Democrats had only two things that they wanted to accomplish in two years. And the rest of the time they...I don't know...sat around diddling each other? Because all that got done in two years was the stimulus package, and ACA. But, in the reality of the "New Right", there was no obstruction. Obama, and the Democrats had complete, iron-fisted control of the entire Congress. And with that control, they passed a whopping two pieces of legislation.

On average, 86% of legislation passed. Sounds pretty good to me.

Historical Statistics about Legislation in the U.S. Congress -- GovTrack.us

 

[Czernobog]

No one filibustered you... Democrats passed everything they wanted.

This is why rational discussion is impossible with the "New Right". Because they don't just have their own opinions. They have their own definitions for heretofore commonly understood terms. They have their own version of facts. They have their own version of history. They, literally, exist in a completely separate reality from the rest of us. So, it is impossible to have rational discourse, as we exist in different realities.

This is a perfect example. In the reality of the "New Right" apparently, Obama, and the Democrats had only two things that they wanted to accomplish in two years. And the rest of the time they...I don't know...sat around diddling each other? Because all that got done in two years was the stimulus package, and ACA. But, in the reality of the "New Right", there was no obstruction. Obama, and the Democrats had complete, iron-fisted control of the entire Congress. And with that control, they passed a whopping two pieces of legislation.

On average, 86% of legislation passed. Sounds pretty good to me.

Historical Statistics about Legislation in the U.S. Congress -- GovTrack.us

Oh. My. God! You really should follow the links in those sources you provide. It was 82%. For the 11th - the congress in question. That 82%? Or 86%, if you wanna use the 113th... That was under "Other legislation". Follow the link to that "Other legislation", and you'll find that it was legislation that never made it out of committee, not legislation that was passed, and enacted. You really are a special kind of retarded, aren't you?

 

[JoeNormal]

Hardly sounds like an attack on the banks but having been hit with a few fines over the years for stupid things, I'd say this was long overdue.

And you think they dig deeper into their pockets, don't you?

Guess who supplies credit cards? Banks. Those banks made money on irresponsible borrowers that didn't pay their bills on time. When DumBama forced them into a longer grace period and lower interest rates, banks lost money.

So how did they recoup that lost money? By charging their responsible borrowers.

I never paid a balance transfer fee in my life until DumBama rode in on his horse. Now every credit card company has to charge a balance transfer fee to stay alive and make up their losses thanks to DumBama.

It was a good political move since most irresponsible people vote Democrat, but made it harder on responsible people (who usually vote Republican) because now we have to pay the bill instead of them, and we are the good customers.

You might have noticed that after the 2008 crash, banks felt they had free reign to screw everyone for whatever reason they could come up with. Fees doubled or tripled and interest rates climbed to usury levels. This might partially correct that. Why you want to side with the banks after all of their cheap moves and excesses is beyond me.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So tell us what happened to the MOM and POP stores when Walmart opened?

In Vegas alone we had 13 grocery stores close when Walmart opened their neighborhood markets.

Try to convince anyone that isn't price fixing. Good luck.

I see the problem now: you don't understand what price fixing is.

What happened to the Mom and Pop stores? They closed. Why? Because CONSUMERS decided to shop at Walmart. Believe it or not, they did so willingly.

Nobody tied a rope around them and dragged them into the stores, nobody pulled out a gun and forced them to shop at Walmart, Walmart didn't have private investigators take pictures of those women cheating on their husbands and blackmail them to shop there, they did it all on their own, and gladly I might add.

Except that's not exactly how that happened. You left out a few things. Sam Walton may have started out as a "small business man", but Walmart was never a "small business". Wal-mart went from being a publicly own corporation in 1970 to over 200,000 stores nation wide in five years. And they did this through a simple formula. Stores were built in every community, and the goods of whatever local merchandise retailers were bought and sold in bulk, shipped to all of their stores nationwide, something the local retailers simply could not do, allowing Wal-mart to undercut the prices of those local retailers rather dramatically. Now, it didn't really matter that the quality was also somewhat inferior. To working class families, being able to save money was important, especially with the economic squeeze that was ensuing. To assist with the illusion that Wal-Mart was just a "bigger, cheaper" version of your local retailers (your "Mom & Pop" stores), Wal-Mart hired copious numbers of staff to give the illusion that they could, and would give the same personal attention to customers that the local retailers did.

This had several effects. First, it created good public relations. After all, Wal-Mart was the saving institution that was bringing jobs to an economy badly in need of jobs. Second, Wal-Mart "proved" they could do everything the "om & Pop's could cheaper. The problem is, it was a lie. it was an illusion. Once Wal-Mart had effectively pushed the individual retailers out of business - around the mid-1980's, a strange thing happened. Two actually. First, prices began to rise at Wal-Marts all across the nation. Second, Wal-Mart began laying employees off, citing economic hard times. The problem with that claim is that Wal-Mart stock continued to soar. Wal-Mart continued to record huge profits quarter after quarter. The "economic hard times" really didn't seem to be hurting Wal-Mart's corporate profits, yet there were the lay-offs. And by then, consumers really didn't have a whole lot of choice. Wal-Mart had effectively priced the local competitors out of business, so people would shop where they could. And this has continued to today. Once Wal-Mart knew that it was "the only game in town", they knew that they could treat their customers, and their employees any way they like, and everyone would just "take it", because, after all, where else are you gonna go?

Now, things have improved a little in recent years, due mostly to competition created by other super-chains, like Target, and the advent, and explosive growth of online shopping that affords a convenience that even Wal-Mart is incapable of matching. They are trying to correct this by creating an online presence of their own. Time will tell if they will be able to do in the virtual world what they did in the physical one.

Now, was what Walmart did illegal? No. But it was mercenary, disingenuous, ethically ambiguous, and, at the very least, distasteful. So, one can understand why folks might have a less than favourable view of the corporate conglomerate.

Utter bull. Target has been around for decades.

What you are trying to convince me is that simultaneously, Walmart knocked out all those stores while at the same time raising prices. Why don't I believe that?

That's not at all what I tried to convince you of. That wasn't simultaneous. It was in order. First came the "knocking out" of the local retailers, with prices designed to undercut the local businesses. Once those businesses were no longer in existence, and could not offer any competition, then came the slow steady increase in price, decrease in customer care, and noticeable lack of increase in quality.

People still shop at Walmart over their competitors. And I have yet to see any example where Walmart did what you say; close down everybody in a nearby area and being the only store in town.

What competitors? That's just it, Ray. There are no competitors any more. There are super chains. There is Wal-Mart, or there are the super chains that are located in the local mall. There are no local small business to compete. Really? So, you have a selection of tailors, and haberdasheries, and locally owned clothing stores in your town? I would certainly like to know where you live. Because I have lived in Kewanee, Illinois, Charleston, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Huntsville, Arkansas, Charleston, South Carolina, Phoenix, Arizona, and several other places, large, medium, and small. And do you know what all of them had in common? There was a Walmart in every place. And there wasn't a local small business specializing in clothing, groceries, or even hardware left anywhere. So, you apparently live somewhere really special, if all of those locally owned businesses still exist where you live.

Walmart has the cheapest prices yesterday and today. People chose Walmart over all others because of that. Walmart has it's share of problems like any other business. In fact, it was late last year when they closed down a ton of stores including the one where I live.

Cheaper than whom? Choose them over whom? I refer you to my previous paragraph.

When a Walmart opens up in your area, it's customers that make the choice to shop there. Walmart doesn't come out at night and burn the other stores down. In fact, we had a Walmart that closed down years ago because they wanted to open up a bigger store nearby. It was a brand new mall, and the other stores depended on Walmart bringing customers into their stores. In fact, the smaller stores had it in their contract.

No, they didn't. They didn't have to "burn them down". all they did was price them out of business.

Walmart is considered an Anchor Store, meaning their shoppers will also shop at their competitors. Once Walmart left the new mall, the mall turned into a ghost town because their contracts were broken due to the anchor store leaving. They couldn't survive without Walmart.

Again, what competitors, Ray? The other national chains? Because there are no locally owned appliance stores. No locally owned 5 & Dimes. No locally owned clothing stores. No locally owned electronics stores. There are chains, and franchises.

That's not at all what I tried to convince you of. That wasn't simultaneous. It was in order. First came the "knocking out" of the local retailers, with prices designed to undercut the local businesses. Once those businesses were no longer in existence, and could not offer any competition, then came the slow steady increase in price, decrease in customer care, and noticeable lack of increase in quality.

They did not increase prices store by store based on competition. Walmart increases their prices across the board whether there is competition or not. Their store prices reflect their internet prices.

What competitors? That's just it, Ray. There are no competitors any more. There are super chains. There is Wal-Mart, or there are the super chains that are located in the local mall. There are no local small business to compete. Really? So, you have a selection of tailors, and haberdasheries, and locally owned clothing stores in your town? I would certainly like to know where you live. Because I have lived in Kewanee, Illinois, Charleston, Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Huntsville, Arkansas, Charleston, South Carolina, Phoenix, Arizona, and several other places, large, medium, and small. And do you know what all of them had in common? There was a Walmart in every place. And there wasn't a local small business specializing in clothing, groceries, or even hardware left anywhere. So, you apparently live somewhere really special, if all of those locally owned businesses still exist where you live.

If you're talking about places like Bob's sewing machine shop, Earls coin shop, Eleanor's dress shop, those places closed down long ago whether there was a Walmart in the area or not. Yes, larger chains took over and we are a throw away society today. Those kinds of places are still around, but there are much less of them. It has nothing to do with Walmart, because the businesses you mentioned above, Walmart doesn't even participate in.

No, they didn't. They didn't have to "burn them down". all they did was price them out of business.

Yes, they priced them out of business. That's what businesses do. The cheaper price gets the business, but you can't say that all at once, Walmart didn't increased their prices due to lack of competition. I'm sure they increase their prices all the time. Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

 

[JoeNormal]

Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

Perhaps you can take comfort in the fact that prices will soon be going down due to autonomous vehicles being used.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

You might have noticed that after the 2008 crash, banks felt they had free reign to screw everyone for whatever reason they could come up with. Fees doubled or tripled and interest rates climbed to usury levels. This might partially correct that. Why you want to side with the banks after all of their cheap moves and excesses is beyond me.

Because those are losses for the bank, and banks like any other business increase their costs elsewhere. In this case, they increased their fees on people like me with perfect credit and never a late payment.

Government has no business telling companies how to run theirs. That's not what our founders intended. If you can't pay you bill on time, then you should pay the penalty--not me.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

Perhaps you can take comfort in the fact that prices will soon be going down due to autonomous vehicles being used.

What in hell is an autonomous vehicle?

 

[Ame®icano]

As little as you have to pay him.

Then we need stronger laws.

Our laws are just fine. Nobody is forced to take any job they don't want to.

I am. I have a family to support and nobody will hire me. I Uber because I have to not because I want to.

Nobody will hire you... why?

COBOL programmer, nobody does COBOL anymore. old, outdated, worn out. Also Bi-polar.

Sorry I missed your reply. As M.C.S. and M.S.E. I could say I know thing or two about programming. If you ever coded, and equally important, if you understand the concept, then there is a good chance you can do something else. As a kid I started with Basic, then Pascal, and climbed the programming ladder with anything that captured my attention and could lay my hands/eyes on (Fortran, PEARL, C/C++/C#, Python, PHP, SQL, etc.). I started by having fun and end up in the programming field. I never did COBOL, but I am somehow familiar with its concept, therefore I suggest you try Python because its simple English based language, and in my opinion, closest to what you know about programming now, plus it's pretty popular and there is demand for it. As of now, I rarely do any of those I listed above, since I am in customer driven industrial programming, automation systems and robotics.

Second, you say you have to Uber to support your family. We all do some things we don't want to do and wait for a chance to do what we like. Honestly, I would rather sit in office and do coding, but I am not doing it simply because I got stuck in this field and become very good at it, established name and connections, so it's not worth for me to go back. Question: what are you doing when not driving?

 

[Czernobog]

They did not increase prices store by store based on competition. Walmart increases their prices across the board whether there is competition or not. Their store prices reflect their internet prices.

Huh. I din't think they even had "internet prices" in the 80's and 90's. Can you link to that? Because that was when the prices started going up at Walmart, after all the local competition was gone.

If you're talking about places like Bob's sewing machine shop, Earls coin shop, Eleanor's dress shop, those places closed down long ago whether there was a Walmart in the area or not. Yes, larger chains took over and we are a throw away society today. Those kinds of places are still around, but there are much less of them. It has nothing to do with Walmart, because the businesses you mentioned above, Walmart doesn't even participate in.

Really? Walmart doesn't sell clothes? They don't sell hardware? They don't sell appliances? What the **** does the Walmart where you live sell?!?! grain and feed?!?!?

Yes, they priced them out of business. That's what businesses do. The cheaper price gets the business, but you can't say that all at once, Walmart didn't increased their prices due to lack of competition. I'm sure they increase their prices all the time. Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

Yeah. Sure. you're right. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that none of those price increases started until after the local competition they were trying to put out of business was actually out of business...

...just a coincidence...

 

[JoeNormal]

Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

Perhaps you can take comfort in the fact that prices will soon be going down due to autonomous vehicles being used.

What in hell is an autonomous vehicle?

$30K Retrofit Turns Dumb Semis Into Self-Driving Robots

It'll be interesting to see whether or not you continue to be a defender of all of the cost cutting measures corporations are trying to use when your livelihood is lost.

 

[Boss]

Walmart is a horrible place to work, with most workers in poverty. ANOTHER Reaganist RW nightmare.

Well, thanks to efforts of morons like you, Walmart is closing about 1,200 stores nationwide. So lookey-there? You got rid of all those horrible jobs! I'm sure all the people who lost them appreciate your diligent efforts. RETARD!

I've worked closely with Walmart and know for a fact that you're flat out lying through your shit-stained teeth. As entry-level jobs go, they are one of the best. They promote quality people rapidly. If you reach the level of department manager, chances are you're going to retire with Walmart. Of course, thousands of people will never know this now because of idiots like you and this 24/7/365 campaign to smear them any way you can.

 

[Czernobog]

Taxes go up, pay scales go up, health insurance goes way up, the suppliers Walmart gets their merchandise increases the cost of their products, as a truck driver, I can tell you that our prices went way up because of all the environmental crap we now have to deal with.

Perhaps you can take comfort in the fact that prices will soon be going down due to autonomous vehicles being used.

What in hell is an autonomous vehicle?

$30K Retrofit Turns Dumb Semis Into Self-Driving Robots

It'll be interesting to see whether or not you continue to be a defender of all of the cost cutting measures corporations are trying to use when your livelihood is lost.

Oh, but you see, that's our fault. Since we won't butt the **** out, and let business owners pay slave wages, then when they do this kind of shit to eliminate jobs, that's our fault because we were making it too hard for these poor business owners to make a profit...

 

[Boss]

Oh, but you see, that's our fault. Since we won't butt the **** out, and let business owners pay slave wages, then when they do this kind of shit to eliminate jobs, that's our fault because we were making it too hard for these poor business owners to make a profit...

You have to get your grubby little fingers out of free market capitalism and let it work. Life's not "fair" dipshit... never has been, never will be. You can't make it fair. All you can do is continue to push us into tyrannical dictatorship under Marxist-Socialism where we will have absolutely ZERO freedom.

 

[Czernobog]

Oh, but you see, that's our fault. Since we won't butt the **** out, and let business owners pay slave wages, then when they do this kind of shit to eliminate jobs, that's our fault because we were making it too hard for these poor business owners to make a profit...

You have to get your grubby little fingers out of free market capitalism and let it work. Life's not "fair" dipshit... never has been, never will be. You can't make it fair. All you can do is continue to push us into tyrannical dictatorship under Marxist-Socialism where we will have absolutely ZERO freedom.

See what I mean, Joe? All our fault...