Ok let's look at it this way. If a woman wants and abortion and the man doesn't can he stop her? If a woman doesn't want an abortion and the man does can he make her? The answer to these questions shows that while both parties are responsible, one should be taking more of the responsibility than the other.

lol both are still responsible, if women could keep their pants zipped as well... problem solved.

skilled labor
noun
1.
labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.


unskilled labor
noun
1.
work that requires practically no training or experience for its adequate or competent performance.

No not all labor is skilled

You dont need competitive wages for unskilled labor. The reason they pay so low is anyone can do it and anyone is easily replaced.

So a person can live above the poverty level pretty much already with minimum wage or at least pretty close. So you are saying if people who cant afford to have kids dont then we dont need to raise minimum wage.?

Sure you can blame the law that gives incentives to banks to loan to high risk people, but I prefer to shift that over to people who take bigger loans than they could afford.

Coming soon, "The Affordable Mortgage Act".
"If you like your home, you can keep it".

But are there enough buyers with steady and adequate employment as well as the ready money to take advantage of whats available?

The concept of being "under water" with a mortgage is really an artificial concept. As long as a home owner can afford the mortgage payments, then the person is still a home owner no matter what the current market value of the home is.

Total BS. There is not a single realistic statement anywhere in this.

First, just where did you come up with the lead statement on small business? Any clue? Let me help, start with Title 26, US code, it's defined very explicitly, as tax code.

And how does your little consignment store work? First, it's consignment which means someone else gets a cut for their ownership of the goods, normally at best case a 50/50 split. So let's say they are open 6 days a week and on average with good and bad days they average $300 a day, that would be $1800 in revenue with $900 in cost leaving a gross margin of $900.

Now let's say we accept your $500 a month for rent, that equates on a weekly basis of $115, now leaving $785. Now let's not forget the electric, water and sewage, lets just say $30 a week, and let's not forget about the insurance mandated by a landlord and his insurance company, another $25 a week and we have a net of $735 and we haven't even mentioned workers comp and unemployment nor those pesky local government bureaucrats wanting their cut. Still, that means a seemingly good earnings but is it really? Probably 12 hour days, 6 days a week and definitely not overtime, real earnings: $10.21 a hour.

But whoa don't go on any spending spree, here comes the IRS wanting 14.2% for FICA and Medicare, oh yes as self employed you pay the full boat, $104 and then federal income tax starting at 15%, another $110. And then you make way too much for subsidized medical, so even though we know it isn't really true, let's except the average cost of Odumbocare at $328 per month, that is still $75 leaving $446 take home pay.

And at $2000 a day with 3 employees, the expenses start going through the roof. And I have family and friends that run businesses in the $1 to $1.5 million in revenue. Their average salaries are little more than their best paid employee and at the end of the year their net after taxes are generally between 3 to 5 percent of revenue, not even doubling their salary.

So the picture is not the pretty scene you pretend exists. I would say more like never been there, never done that.

Underwater doesn't mean they dont have a home. It means they owe more than it is currently worth. Most likely that means they bought it not long before the bubble burst If they paid so little so far.

Yes I was getting ready for the gym and was off by a power of 10. The point being its volume of sales. Its has nothing to do with costs of products or production or labor. If customers pay you a total of 500k a year you qualify. Like I said $200 a day for 300 days is already 100k over that value.

Housewife? That is up to the husband if she is earning it as he is supporting her.

The CEO, that is up to the shareholders who he represents. If they don't think so he is usually replaced.

The teacher, that is up to the school board who pays them.

You see it is the payer who determines if the payee is worth the check.

You are not grasping the concept. I sell a product for $10,000. I sell 5 products a year. My profit on each of the products is $1000 as costs were $9000 to procure them. I still did 500k in sales volume though I only earned 5k profit.