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RC

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4. Without Living Wage Jobs, people cannot afford to buy.

Reply to True Earthling (Original post)

Thu May 17, 2012, 11:17 AM

May 2012

With people not buying, business cannot afford to hire, or to pay a Living Wage. To break the cycle, Main Street needs to be bailed out instead of rewarding the big financial gamblers.
(Insert definition of insanity here) The fix is to do something other than what got us, U.S. in this economic mess in the first place. We are still trying to dig our way out with the same tools and plans that that were used to dig the hole in the first place. What is wrong with this picture?

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Reasons companies are not hiring [View all] True Earthling May 2012 OP

Liars. They're feeding their profit line. eom snappyturtle May 2012 #1

You don't need a survey, a crystal ball or you own . sendero May 2012 #2

There's another DU thread this a.m. berating us for daring to suggest coalition_unwilling May 2012 #3

It sure does.. SoCalDem May 2012 #5

Add in educational debts, too. n/t BadgerKid May 2012 #8

Without Living Wage Jobs, people cannot afford to buy. RC May 2012 #4

The reason is that companies shifted from profit to return per share as their number one goal. liberal N proud May 2012 #6

What they don't tell you: the real reason companies aren't hiring meow2u3 May 2012 #7

They are sitting on it to punish the guy who brought them all back from the brink SoCalDem May 2012 #9

That's exactly my point n/t meow2u3 May 2012 #10