On Sun, 1 May 2016 23:54:14 -0500, PaxPerPoten wrote:

On 5/1/2016 5:19 PM, Winston_Smith wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2016 16:31:54 -0400, Meanie wrote:
On 5/1/2016 1:35 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:

Price $2.50. I'd love to buy one,
but money is tight.

Money is tight for $2.50?

Your name is well chosen. Yes, believe it or not there are a great
many people who have almost zero discretionary funds. Every cent they
earn is earmarked for absolute essentials.

Naturally this opens all sorts of political diatribe and rhetoric but
even after we sort out the terminally lazy, the products of public
education, the mentally deficient, etc, there are still many millions
of people in the situation.

I have little hope this will change; it will probably get worse. Most
of the much lauded new job creation we hear about lately in fact
represents people who had to move from skilled middle class jobs to
mind numbing minimum wage, or worse, jobs. Responsible people with
good work ethics that we simply don't need any more.

Let them starve in the streets, forced sterilization, massive
incarceration for trivial reasons, or invent a society/economy that no
one has yet begun to conceive. Your call. Might want to ask
candidates some real questions.

The way inflation is going...That scenario could very well happen and
soon for fixed income people. $10-$15 per hour minimum wage won't cut it
now, It certainly won't cut what is coming soon. I suggest that the
Mormon buy some seeds and start planning his winter meals now!

If he was a "real mormon" he'd have at least a year's supply already
packed away. That is part of the essence of being a Mormon.