I am seeing more and more kids working instead of hanging out at the mall...guess Mommy & Daddy have cut off their allowances. About time.

It's not too bad around here. Seems like things go on as usual. Wierd and I don't know why.

After a hurricane though, the greed kicks in and everybody's labor is all of a sudden worth double what it was.

I'm thinking about investing in the stock market now that it's so down. It WILL go back up!

My boss has a Thrift Savings Plan and he told me yesterday that if he hadn't of moved his money from the "stocks" plan over to the "government backed" plan back in January, he would have lost 98,000.00 over the last week!! WOW!!

No one is gonna be able to fix things though until we americans start taking care of our OWN and stop trying to take care of the rest of the world!! They don't appreciate it anyway, and then they hate us.

Amen to that. Can't stand seeing 10 year old's with cell phones that Mom and Dad pay for.

What knocks me out is the parents that think they know where there kid is just because they can call them on the cell phone. You are just giving the kid another way to outsmart you and access to a whole lot of people they don't need to be plugged into. Not like a cell phone is going to protect a kid from anything. It actually makes them a target.

Jumping up the labor costs is about right. I can't believe the contractors that had the nerve to charge $20+/hour and pay maybe $12 or less after the windstorms. Same way with the the healthcare agencies/nurseing homes. They charge $25 an hour with a four hour minimum then the workers are lucky to take home minimum wage.

Maybe if the goverment didn't waste money on investigating the steroid use basebaseball they could have been making laws to protect the average person

Do you have any idea what the cost is to run a company or nursing agency? Do you know what the cost of insurance is? Do you think all they have to do is pay their employees?

Take a business class and get back to me.

Actually I do know what it costs to run some of these businesses and they are raking in the cash like it is no tomorrow. I am all for making a fair profit if you take the risk to and work your buns off to start a business but some of these places are gouging the people they provide sevices to and the emplyees that do the work.

I am not talking about licensed professional nurses for $25/hour I am talking about CNA's. You would be right they earn even more (which given their education, responsibility, and experience they should).

I am not talking about licensed professional nurses for $25/hour I am talking about CNA's. You would be right they earn even more (which given their education, responsibility, and experience they should).

I know people that have taken all their money out of the bank

I know I had a couple of sleepless nites when our local WAMU was shut down a day or so for internal audits; someone inside the bank was doing something; it got hushed up pretty fast. Thank heavens it was FDIC insured or I might have been up a creek. I never did figure out how they could afford to give new checking account customers without a minimum $75.00. Not like there is enough capital in the account long enought to be anthing but on paper breifly. Maybe that is all it takes. LOL they do get to use your deposits for up to ten days for free. Not that mine would be all that significant. I expect to see people charged for checking account services soon.