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1 | Wise Christian spending? | Lev 19:18 | justme | 140155 | ||
EdB: Merry Christmas Ed! My dad told me of times he worked for very little a day back when....? However, I have never heard anyone recalling those days without telling how much they suffered as well. My first new car was a 64 Chevy and it cost 2,882.00. It lacked every safty satanard we have today! Compaired to the car we got this year about 4 times a much, and gets 33mpg I will take the things of today, thank you. Having been to a few thrid world countries, there are certian things that cost the same no matter where you live. For example tolet paper costs pretty much the same everywhere. No place on earth is 25 to 50 cents an hour a anything but slave wages. May I suggest that here in the USA we have so excepted Walmarts 10. dollar cheap shoes that come from China, and last maybe three months, over a 125 dollar pair of USA made genuine leather shoes that last five or more years and can be resoled! I believe if we continue to act unwisely by buying cheap foreign goods, eventually our wages will continue to go down to match those cheaper cost and poorer quailty goods we buy. There are very few skilled labor jobs get paid a high as they did say 15 years ago. Yet we are telling the X generation they should save up more and more for education and future retirement. We have a generation that sees most things as expendable, and to use until a bigger and better item comes along, be it cars, houses, or husbands and wives. Ed, if we as a country all stopped buying a certian item we wanted to come down in price, that would have the very opposite results, costs would increase because quanity reduces production costs. Scriptually I would say a workman is worthy of his wages. As Christians we need to bring attention to the countries like China that treat the labor so much like slaves. What are your thoughts? justme |
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2 | Wise Christian spending? | Lev 19:18 | EdB | 140203 | ||
justme We see economics from two different view points. I go by the old adage the price is set by the market. If the market for a product is down the price goes down if the market is high the prices goes high. There are exceptions especially in technology and non essentials. However I assure you when the tomatoes are in season the price is lower then when they have to be imported. Why? Because the market won’t pay the price when you can grow your own, but in the winter you have to pay the price. We are a nation of two income families that attempted to have more disposable income. However since the market would pay the price, the prices went up and instead of having more disposable income you now have both incomes needed to make ends meet. Yes I remember the cars back then my first new car was a 1968 Corvair for 1800 dollars and I bought a house for 125 down and 12,000 mortage. I was making about 650 a month and living hand to mouth. If I saw it I wanted it and bought it. Today I have learned I don't need most everything their selling. In fact I find my life a lot simpler and a lot less compilicated not buying 90 percent of the junk I use to. As for shoes. I like a good pair of shoes but I will say I have had 125 dollar made in the USA Florsheim's turn to junk faster than a pair of 50 dollar China made shoes. Yes a worker is worthy of his wage but I did manpower planning for a major company and I know how we staffed. We used a number that was less that half the time a person should work a month. Why? Because productivity studies showed us that was all we could expect an employee to produce. I dare say none of us would pay a gardener 8 hours pay knowing he was going to work less than 4. Yet that is how many US companies have to staff. I too know a little about foreign countries and I know in many countries they have far more disposable income than we do. Look at Japan, 30 years ago everyone said about them the same thing we now say about China, their workers are working for slave wages. However if you travel to Australia you find those slave laborers are buying the country. Let us get back to the Bible. Economics doesn't edify me much anymore. I pray you and yours a blessed and merry Christmas and a safe and wonderful New Year EdB |
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