I would guess we are right on the edge of having the Federal government begin regulation of more industries. Industries like Facebook. It makes about as much sense to me as the Federal government setting a minimum wage with no real basis for doing any regulation. There is no indication in the Constitution for the Federal government to enforce a minimum wage, therefore any such effort belongs to a county, union, state or some other organization of the people. Perhaps there is even less reason for any envolvement in what Facebook does. I mean, Facebook is in the business of selling what you give them if you join Facebock. Why the hell should tax money be spent on regulating a service you do not need to use?
My Alabama grandmother use to make a fabulous fried apple pie. My father was a builder and we were building a house near Decatur and we would take her fried apple pies for a lunch dessert. My Georgia grandmother never baked me a pie. However, one of my favorite tv shows is Good Eats with Alton Brown who lives and tapes his show in Atlanta, my birth town. My favorite pie is a good blackberry pie, which my aunt, a transfer from Georgia to Oswego use to bake.
Good point. Let's remove government regulation of cigarettes too. If 6 year olds want to smoke, that should be their decision! And heroin. Nobody needs to use it, so let's not regulate it. Same for nukes, airlines, coal mines, etc. barfo
The plastic king in Taiwan is the overlord of the Green Triad...huge organized crime organization all over the world....there are plenty of dictators and gangsters who have money that's not really on the books....there are lots of international gazillionaires who have territories they control....the Rothchilds don't control them whatsoever.....the Titans can however control money exchange rates anytime they want...tilt the markets.
I love those....have tons of blackberries on the property...but my favorite pie is strawberry rhubarb pie....
They definitely are. Clearly addictive, leads to social problems, etc. Facebook should be Category 1. barfo
That's another one I like. I also like, huckleberry, mince meat, apple (with gravenstein and granny smith apples), lemon meringue and pecan. Surprisingly, I had a 2nd. cousin with a pecan orchard in Alabama but no one in that large extended family ever baked a pecan pie that I ever knew about. One night we had three tornadoes pass by so close that it sounded like a freight train was going through our back yard. My grandfather went to work with my dad and I one morning and on the way to work we saw a huge copperhead lying across the road, ACROSS. My grandfather told my dad, "Jay (his name was John but his family called him Jay) stop the truck!" We stopped and granddad grabbed a hoe for mixing mortar out of the truck and chopped that snake's head off. I also found a rattle snake working it's way across our back yard. And then there was the scorpion I found in a load of brick from Texas. I was so young and stupid that I put a bottle over it and left it there while we went to work. On the way home I suddenly remembered it and looked at the bottle now rolling around on the passenger floorboard, where I sit. No trace of the scorpion was ever found. I think we dodged a bullet. My father, divorced from my mother, some years before, and had a girlfriend who was the secretary to Werner Von Braun. She offered to introduce me to him but for some reason, I declined. Perhaps it was out of fear of his immense status. I kick myself in the butt every time I think about declining that offer. Geez, this has nothing to do with pie but I have led an interesting life.
Yep, I avoid those types. I knew some in college and with one exception, they were all low lifes. The exception was a nice guy who got his degree in nuclear engineering. That's more the type I hang out with. On the flip side, I do hang out with Sly so please don't say that I have no experience with Low Lifes.
Pharmaceuticals, you left off pharmaceuticals. And driving while drunk. Why, there's a whole litany of them you left out.
Feel all you want, but employment pools are governed by the same free market laws that anything operates on. We have a surplus of unskilled, minimum wage labor available to employers which causes negative pressure on wages.
Lanny responded to barfo doubting that minimum wage had much influence. In my post barfo quoted I said "or less, who knows?"
You are right, I overlooked that part, and I wasn't terribly clear in my response even so. What I was really trying to say (not that it matters) was that I don't think most employers say to themselves "let's see, how much can I afford to pay this new position? Ok, that's the right number then". More common would be "what's the going rate for this sort of position? Can I afford to pay that?" barfo
There's a ton of stuff they have to take into account. I'm curious what would happen if there were no minimum wage.
