Tigeraholic1

Good stuff, I love seeing antylitics of costs by regions. $1 goes much farther in Texas vs Cali I would suspect.

Most families need milk and bread no? I guess not eat?

I was just assuming the Big Mac cost you reffered to was an average cost in the U.S. inflated by states like Cali.

? Cali has been historically higher wage region for years. Everything costs more out there. You are arrogant but that goes without saying.

When the wage increase occurs without a higher profit margin for a company it's not absorbed. You think CEO's are going to take a pay decrease so their employees get a raise?

I travel to California for work and always amazed how much more expensive things are out there. My partners son works at a McD's in Long Beach and starting wage for burger flipper is $17.50 an hour. My one bedroom apartment I keep out there 2 miles from Compton is $1500 a month w/o utilities.

This is a different issue all together. Yes there is a material shortage issue from over seas but the biggest issue is labor. Skilled labor is leaving the work force at a staggering rate. These guys 50-60 years old with 30 plus years of exp are not being back filled. There are not enough young people willing to work their way through skilled trade.

let me give you an example: Do you remember during 2020 when the government paid a large percentage of americans to stay home? Then a large portion of them said " I won't come back to work for that pay level"? Many employers had to start paying higher wages to lower income folks to get them back into the work force right? Do employers eat that cost? No, they pass the buck to the consumer. Hmmm what happens next, cost of consumable goods goes up. So said folks who got a bump from $13 per hour to $14-15 is negated due to higher costs. It's economics 101 my friend.

You have a small scope of the country. I won't waste my time trying to break it down for you. From what I gather you are college educated working from home going 18 plus months, dual income and even have a gym membership. This is a very small percentage of the general public. Like you say let everyone eat cake!

You say Americans are flush with cash and that is simply not true.

Thats a pretty elitist take. I know a number of families struggling to buy their kids Christmas presents and pay bills this month.

I hope he doesn’t beat himself up over it.

That is taking an animals name in vain, not acceptable.

Is your avatar a baseball game picture and a shadow of a cat?

No you are suppose inject Listerine, or was that Lysol? 🤔

That's awesome that you guys have kept it going so long. Anyone here ever play the baseball board game Pursue the Pennant? My buddy and I played from middle school until we started having kids. I tried to get my teenage boy to play but its not a video game. I still have it and team player cards that got updated from 80's through early 2000's.....

Putin won't invade, he is going to use Ukraine as puppet leverage. While the west is focused on preventing the proxy war from escalating he makes his chess move elsewhere, watch....

Hmmm, why did we not but up a fight for Crimea?

Different dynamic. Our economy requires dual income for families especially non college educated. Even with the wife working you had both parents in the home.

Fantastic Idea! I have an uncle who was a dead beat. He would work somewhere long enough for the government to hit his check for child support (1980'-90's). Nowadays it's alot harder to get away with that crap.