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Groceries and gasoline and electric are out of hand.
I think the majority of people left here are retirees or foreigners because they seem either wholly unawares or unaffected.
I worked hard swinging a hammer and such my entire life, usually out in the cold and heat. I saved money. I live 5 miles from work. If gas doubles it doesn't really matter to me much that is very correct.
I've cut way back on fun hobbies to waste time trying to make american great again,and to straiten things out for the younger generations. So I believe I'm very aware of what's going on. I remember growing up,we never locked our front door,it was a different America
Figures
I have no problem with our veterans being compensated.
They deserve an increase even.
Where do you live that your grocery prices haven't changed since 2024?
I seriously doubt your prices have been staying consistent down to the penny and there has been zero fluctuation since 2024.
Especially the eggs. That was a main factor in Trump winning, people angry about the cost of eggs and the government culling flocks due to the "avian flu virus" and it taking until mid 2025 for egg prices to go down.
So, not sure if you're fibbing, if you have a selective memory, if you only looked at prices when there were huge, remarkable sales, or if Las Vegas exists in an alternate reality from the rest of the country, but your story is not believable.
Correct. It's a budgeting problem, same as with most governments. I'm on social security, along with my wife, but I'm doing fine. I have a budget that is run out to 2030 so I can see ahead of time where there might be tight spots and where bills will end, giving us extra money for something else. We are very close to finishing Dave Ramsey's debt snowball plan. I have only a single credit card, and that balance goes down every month. They keep writing to me begging me to charge more so they can get their usury. I'm not falling for it. Unless there is an unavoidable dire emergency, I will never borrow another penny.
I can remember not having the 25 cents to buy a canned Coke from the machine at college. Now, if my wife wants a steak for supper, I can take her out to get one without a second thought about whether I can afford it or not.
My current budget is 24 pages long. It's a table in WordPerfect, similar to a spreadsheet. I have every income and expense, along with the date and a running balance. It's nice seeing bigger balance numbers in coming years.
7.25 for an 8oz brick of colbyjack cheese. The assistant manager was putting out dairy yesterday when I was in the store. I looked at the cheese prices and said woah I'm not paying those prices.
Try cheddar. It's cheaper than that. At the local Food Lion, it's about $4 for an 8 ounce package. But the pound package is cheaper per pound when the little ones aren't on sale.
I try to buy most things when they are on sale. For example, when Biden came in, I knew prices would jump. I bought butter for $2 a pound. Now it's over $4 a pound. But I bought enough back then that I haven't had to buy butter again. I keep the extra in the freezer. Spam never goes bad, so I bought enough back when it was cheaper and on sale that I may never have to buy it again. The same goes for 1 lb. canned hams and a lot of other canned meats.
Buying groceries is a game, and you must learn how to win.
Groceries don't seem too bad right now. For example, I can still buy a whole pork loin for $1.99 a pound, which is the same price I paid, on sale, 8 or 9 years ago. Spam has just now passed $4, when it was about $3.69 for years.
Gasoline doesn't affect me much, as I only fill up about once a month.
My electric bill is less than $100 a month, and our computers run 24/7, and our TVs are plugged in all the time. We have two freezers. We cool with electricity, so our electric bill may approach $200 a month during the summer. We might start getting a bit higher bill next month. July, August, and September bills will be the highest. I have already budgeted for them, so I won't be surprised when the bills come.
I think the biggest problems people have is too much unnecessary debt, too much house for their station in life, too many vehicles, and too many toys they think are required. My wife and I have one car, as we almost always go places together. It's almost 6 years old, but I bought it new. It has less than 30,000 miles on it, so we could conceivably drive this same car until I can no longer drive.
I have always tried to live within my means. I have a budget spreadsheet that runs out to 2030. I have every single bill and income listed, along with its date and a running balance. This way, I can see ahead where money might be tighter. I keep a cushion of money in another account that can always be moved in an emergency.
“Labor shortages” = ILLEGALS GONE!
⚠️94% contractors have been using illegal labor ⚠️
When they low-ball the entire Community. The wages drop. The earnings drop. And the money heads over the border. The Billions India pulling out of the Western Nations. While their garbage builds up.
Check out the home inspection videos on yt
It’s atrocious how bad the quality
Ive already seen enough damage by them in a very short period in Canada. We all want them gone asap.
How else are people going to be able to get 6,000 square foot McMansions for $300,000?
A good thing on many fronts... Better pay, faster track to starting work (In most trades) and less screwball teachers indoctrinating our youth.
...and not starting out adult life with debt from student loans that will take 20 years to pay off.
Democrats love slavery, debt slavery, SNAP slavery, etc...
"Democrats" love to enslave.
These suckers can't get off their sick "habits" (ugh, they disgust and annoy me)
LBJ said that if he got his welfare bill passed, he'd "have those [n-words] voting Democrat for a hundred years." I think he will be proved wrong in the next few years, as more and more black people see the trap.
An electrician is a 5, year program. You're an apprentice for the whole time earning good money while you're being trained and if it's a union apprenticeship you get full union benefits day one. After about 8k hours of being an apprentice you test for your journeyman certification. In my area journeyman are making about 130k to start and adding in overtime add and other 20k. I've said all the Mc Manchins will have a pickup with a job box in the bed instead of the BMWs that are in the driveways now. Trades are the way.
Most vehicles in my area are trucks. Second is SUVs. Regular cars are a distant third.
These stats are thrown at average Americans just scraping by. To be honest it’s fucking insulting.
Just wait until manufacturing catches up. Many factories are just being built and are not hiring the labor force right now. When they start up, jobs will be available to anyone that wants to work. We are in the beginning phase right now.
Well, looks like there are already plenty of jobs for anyone who wants to work, seeing as how there's a huge labor shortage already...
Plenty of jobs, not many paying what their employees are actually worth.
Most of it is unskilled labor, from what I understand. That's not necssarily going to bring in a lot of income.
So what is the solution? A mandatory living wage for them, like liberals want, which would cause prices of houses and such to skyrocket, or construction companies going under, or making it mandatory that people on government assistance to take those jobs? Or what other option, other than importing them right back in witn more work visas, just for them to not leave when the visa expires, and we start a very expensive cycle all over?
And didn't anyone see this when demanding to toss out illegals because American citizens need those jobs? That the jobs most of those illegals were doing were paying very low wages? What exactly do they think they were doing that was paying the high wages American citizens demand?
The problem is people who don't know that minimum wage jobs were always meant to be starter jobs for teens. If you're still making minimum wage after three years, the problem is you. You are supposed to learn and gain skills so you can advance to better jobs. From my very first job until I retired at 50, every new job was better than the previous one and eventually paid much better.
The problem is people are still living in the past, thinking that teens still make up a large portion of the work force. They're trying to shoehorn today's reality into a mould from their memories.
And those people tend to be Boomers (your comment about paying .25 for a can of coke in college makes me think you fit this demographic) who don't think about two really important details.
The Boomer generation was the largest ever, so just by sheer force of numbers, they had a much larger teen workforce than any other.
They then decided that THEIR children wouldn't have to work as teens and actively discouraged them from looking for a lot of work as teens, and instead work on their education to be able to get into a good college. And no, not EVERY Boomer parent did this, but it was by FAR the norm growing up as a Gen X kid with Boomer parents than not. It was a point of pride for them that their kids didn't have to work and their kids should be able to have things they didn't growing up. And this has been passed on to the younger generations.
This isn't a conversation about how things SHOULD BE, but how things ACTUALLY ARE. I'm not saying that it's right. I'm pointing out the reality of the situation instead of reminiscing about the good old days of their past and thinking that's still how the world works.
And this should have been realized and taken into consideration if people were expecting teens to fill in the labor gap when foreign workers were booted.
Obviously, if they were expecting teens to fill those roles, they were seriously wrong, since we have such a huge labor shortage that we're importing MORE foreign workers to take those jobs, thus starting this very expensive cycle of booting then importing all over again.
Its definitely not just unskilled labor.
Then, again, why did people assume that there would be all these Americans lined up to take these jobs illegals had? Why did they think that those employers would be happy/willing to pay Americans so much more?
I keep pointing out the complete lack of planning and grip on reality when it's come to all of this, but instead of facing that fact, they keep trying to pivot.
No, teens were never going to be lining up to take those jobs because this isn't the 1950s/1960s.
No, the employers were never going to pay what American workers feel they're worth, becuase that will either cut into their own profits, or their profits are so small already they'd have to raise prices to consumers, which would most likely result in them going under because consumers would revolt.
The problem is that we were constantly told that when illegals were booted, it would open up all these great jobs American workers have been passed over for and so many more Americans would have good, solid jobs.
But that hasn't happened. We're in such a severe labor shortage that the same administration that just spent hundreds of millions of dolllars to round up and boot out all these illegals are spending millions of dollars creating MORE visas to bring in foreign workers to take these same jobs, thus starting the entire cycle again. The main way people become illegal is to overstay visas. Nothing is stopping this newest batch from doing the same thing.
So, obviously, whatever assumptions people had about what would happen with the job market was really wrong, and instead of facing that, people are pretending all is super great and awesome and starting the entire process over again.
It doesnt matter if employers want to pay Americans more. If your business benefits from American markets, you need to hire American employees. By removing the illegals, we let the free market decide what a fair wage is for any given job. If employers cant find good employees, they arent paying enough.
I'm not arguing with that philosophy. I'm pointing out the way the free market is deciding to deal with it is to pressure the government to create more work visas to bring foreigners BACK INTO the country to do those jobs for cheap, after booting out the ones who over stayed their own visas, thus just creating a pointless, expensive loop.
This isn't a matter of what things SHOULD be like, but pointing out the reality of how things ACTUALLY ARE.
Obviously, relying on the free market to make the correct choices isn't working here.
I’ve been building houses for 30 years. Seen a lot. This life ain’t for everybody. Work doesn’t flood your way, you have to go out and find it. You get zero vacation time. No paid benefits. No insurance. And penalized by the government for being self employed on your taxes. The job is hard. It’s hot, cold, and weather affects you daily. Everything you pay for. Gas, tools, insurance, licenses, advertising, the ups and downs. It’s not easy and it ain’t cheap. And you don’t get rich, by no means. Not the average guy. I see new people all the time. And the debt they’re in is more insane than your average college student. Cept the college student gets taken care of if they get a job on their degree. The self employed, you gotta get it. And then hand over a chunk of it to the tax man who helped you with nothing. I’m fourth generation builder in my family. And I lead my two sons away from this. People don’t have the money to pay you for your work most of the time. And you’re chasing down the rest of it. And even if you do a great job, you’re hoping you’re not taking to court by losers who want everything for free. The trades are not for the softhearted. Everything about it is hard. I had chances to go and do something else many years ago. And many times I regret not leaving this. My body is broken. My insurance sucks. And I’m hoping it stops raining so I can actually start the next house. Thankfully I learned how to budget my money decades ago. In this business if you live month to month, your already done. I can miss a year of work and be fine. But I also don’t own expensive things. And learned that having less is actually having more. We build a dang fine home though. And our rep for my area is very good. But that won’t be my legacy. Once I found Christ, I don’t care about all this and that anymore. My body isn’t gonna hold out. And that’s ok. I lean heavy on Christ nowadays. I’d rather be remembered as a person who loved Jesus than a builder. The builder name, ends with me. And I’m ok with that. I hope anyone who ventures into the trades good luck. As with any job. Don’t let it be all you are. It’s just a job. The smarter man makes more and works less. Look to God for help. Make Jesus a focus before money. And thank the Lord all this ends one day and we can finally rest.
Can you imagine a world where instead of employees being expendable, the employers are expendable?
That's right, the exact opposite of today's reality.
But why are there job shortages for these jobs? I thought one of the biggest complaints was that illegals were taking much needed jobs from American citizens.
So why are American citizens not taking these jobs if there's such a huge labor shortage?
And the thing that bothers me the most is that they're increasing H-2B visas for construction work, landscaping, hospitality work, etc. What sense does that make? Take all the time and money to boot them out of the country just to spend more time and money to import them back in.
And for the "But they're coming in legally!" people, the fact is the majority of illegals came over here legally to begin with, on H-2B visas, tourist visas, or student visas and just didn't leave when their visas expired. So expect these new workers coming over to do the exact same thing.
There are shortages because insane youth don't want regular jobs. I have seen videos of young people crying because the world expects them to actually show up and work for 8 hours a day. They are snowflakes. The generations coming up are even worse. If not for conservative parents and children, this country would fail in a few years.
I responded to this same argument in your comment above.
So wait, those so-called jobs are usually only allowing to employ illegals?
These suckers are doing everything they can to NOT employ american citizens. Is lack of one of those "stupid bonus" or what?
Forcing a shortage, forcing lack of workers. Chances are it's just another annoying tactic of replacement!
Or, you know, ... greed.
Wait until these cupcakes have to mix cement in full sun BY HAND in July in a big metal mortar box... the sudden glamour of "the trades" will be met by reality.
Get into the trades...you'll be working with hoes 😂😂😂
Seems like road work might be a good gig. I don't think they actually repair anything... Every time I go by a road crew around here, they're all just standing around doing nothing... it's amazing to me. Any job I've ever worked, there was zero standing around except lunch break... and that was to put my tool belt back on.
I think overall kids getting into some trade is good - if for nothing other than understanding how things work and how to fix things. It's pretty scary witnessing what 20 somethings don't know... like how to change oil or a tire, let alone running a new electric circuit or basic framing...
Let's go son...it ain't gonna dig itself!
u/#burry
Yesterday at the grocery store the cashier a teenager 15 maybe 16 stood at her register no light on sitting somehow on the bag stand with her cellphone, as soon as she was done bagging the few things I bought she sat right back down on her cellphone. I used to work at that store I would have been fired if I had done that.
Wait...they bag for you?
Every grocery store I go to bags the groceries. They don't always do the best job, but the clerk does bag things as she or he rings them up. This is Food Lion in northeastern NC.
Southern hospitality...
Around here it's more like, "Get your shit and get out. Next!"
There is a restaurant in Vanceboro, NC that used to have really uncomfortable chairs. Of course I asked a waitress about them. She said it was to make people go ahead and eat and leave, so someone else could come in and eat. They were very busy. They now have a pretty good buffet. It's called Vera's Diner.
Lol they do. We used to have carry out as well but I never used it
Second quarter growth is being predicted to be 4.2%. And I am predicting 7% growth in the third quarter. The part that no one is directly talking about is the $2-3T investment money that is flowing into a $30T economy. Part of Trump’s $18T deal making. And typically, about one third of that ends up as federal tax revenue.
Love to see most of academia go under.
Income os not about how much yiu make, its about how much you spend.