Posted on 09/02/2021 8:00:17 AM PDT by Bearshouse
Please check this Twitter thread. There are a great many comments about the shortages and pictures of empty shelves in various parts of the country.
Very interesting that so many see this as "on purpose" and a way to control us.
Noticing it in Wisconsin. It’s because we have communists writing our economics policy.
How about we stop ALL trade with China??? Make it here!!!
There is no such thing. There are only wage shortages.
Pay more.
Labor shortages are BS.
I think you may be preaching to the wrong choir here.
Everyone has help needed signs up and I've seen almost double the salary offered from 2 years ago for low skill warehouse and forklift jobs. You can not find people to fill them. In the field I just retired from, you have to acquire a state license even for low end employees and what applicants you do get either can't even pass that license requirement or the required drug testing.
We all ready pay a starting wage of $15.00 and hour plus a top end full benefit plan, 401k and annual bonuses. In addition there is the option to work 10-20 hours of over time a week. We are in the top end employer for our area where the average wage is $11.50 an hour
So rather then mindless cling to your ignorance base dogmas pry open your welded shut mind, and try just this ONE time, to learn something about how the world really works.
This is a universal problem for US employers because of the stupid polices of the US Federal Government in response to Covid. The mindless sloganeering by the Freeper Know Nothings is just an example of living in denial
Supply and Demand and the Labor Market
Please explain how the law of supply and demand works with respect to the labor market.
The supply of labor, like the supply for other services, merely indicates how much labor workers are willing to offer at various prices. The supply curve for each worker will be different as each worker has different opportunity costs and preferences.
The demand for labor indicates how much labor a firm desires at different prices. The demand curve for each firm will differ as each firm faces different labor substitutes (differing rates of potential capital substitution, for instance), preferences, demand curves for the products they produce, and alternative employments for their resources.
Wage rates are simply the price of labor and as such, are determined like all other prices on the market. The intersection of the supply and demand curves for labor indicates the equilibrium, or market clearing, wage rate for certain types of labor. (In a free economy, unhampered by government regulation, wage rates for the same type of labor tend to equalize across markets).
This wage rate at the point of curve intersection tends to equal the discounted value of the marginal productivity of labor (DMVP). I know that sounds like a mouthful but it simply means that workers tend to earn the market value of what they produce (less the rate of interest).
Any worker employed for less than this amount will likely be bid away by another firm, as the firm stands to earn profit by doing so. The process of firms hiring away laborers earning less than their DMVP pushes the wage rate to the point where no firm stands to generate additional profit by bidding away the worker. At this point, the wage rate equals the DMVP. This argument, of course, assumes an efficient, undistorted market.
Big deal. That is an arbitrary number. If 15 doesn't work then go 16. If that doesn't work then 17. See how it work? A child can figure it out.
When shopping for a new car recently, the car lots had almost no inventory for new and almost new used cars. The car I bought had to be bought sight unseen and shipped to me. Apparently there is a shortage of license plates too so it will be a while before I get them.
Our local town had an article about a shortage of paint so can’t repaint the crosswalks. The food stores are having a lot of shortages too. I’m in eastern Washington state.
We were headed that way before Satan put a road block we’re dismantling, in our way.
Please pay attention to the shipping backlog - The US is a net importer of food. If those hundreds of container ships at anchor off LA and many other ports do not offload, there will be shortages of every thing. And because they are not offloaded, no ships are returning to other ports which become backed up with containers waiting to be shipped out.
The principle actor is China - they closed there ports for months because of the bogus flu and then reopened creating a flood of containers to be shipped out as fast as possible to the US, but the US does not have the capacity to unload all those ships fast enough or even room to dock them.
That’s all.
You’ve made good points... it just seems the ‘stuff’ Biden does seems to always end in the same place: destabilizing the country.
And yeah there are spot shortages and higher prices - but our grocery stores are heroically holding things together. Not perfectly - for many reasons as you pointed out - but enough to stop panic buying.
The article you missed:
“Families Who Receive Food Stamps Will See The Largest Benefits Increase In History”
READ: August 16, 2021 (Intentional timing?)
The Associated Press
>>> You’ve made good points... it just seems the ‘stuff’ Biden does seems to always end in the same place: destabilizing the country.
Oh for sure! (and thanks) Destabilization efforts are in over-drive because Trump put them 4 years behind schedule.
One of the things they are frustrated over though is public’s refusal to mount a violent rebellion.
A violent uprising is what they need to justify martial law.
So far, it does not appear like patriots are organizing rebellions as they expected or were hoping for.
Eventually though, they will find the right trigger... or the right false flag to make it happen.
I suspect it will be imported terrorism.
I know what you’re saying is true.
It’s also why the French can’t get their wine out of warehouses - production isn’t the problem - the supply chain is the problem. They can’t move wine from point A (France) to point B - the US. It’s happening up and down the line with different products. As you say - more often with Chinese imports...
My comment basically was ‘progressives’ aren’t letting a crisis go to waste. They’ll use this opportunity to make things worse. Same as Afghanistan - lots of us felt that war should be ended. Almost none of us would have agreed to leaving Bagram for Kabul or giving the Taliban a billion dollars worth of weapons... or leaving leaving Americans behind. Upping the amount of foodstamps during this time to an historic high is an odd choice:
Same with comments from Homeland...and breathless stories about empty shelves. Those types of stories INCREASE buying...
Odd timing.
‘By the way, I was roundly criticized by at least on FReeper for posting that dialogue from Bill Whittle’
was that you...?
It’s definitely the one thing that the FBI/CIA embeds here at Free Republic are super frustrated about. They have daily stompy fits here.
I was finally able to find the Johnsonville Farm Honey & Brown Sugar sausage links I like, after them being missing from the store for 6-8 weeks. The Walmart here is the only store that carries that particular flavor. I've tried the Vermont Maple, but don't care for them. There were only four packages left on the shelf, so I bought all four and threw them in my freezer. Lord only knows when they'll have them in stock again. The last time I bought them, I bought three packs, and threw them in the freezer. I ate the last two links two weeks ago. That package had a use-by date of 5/24/21, which tells you just how long ago I had bought them.
To replace the Johnsonville links, I bought two packages of Bob Evans original sausage patties, and threw them in my freezer. I didn't notice until I was down to the last four patties in the first package, that the top layer of the black styrofoam that they sat on, was sticking to the bottom of the patty. They don't put their patties on top of a protective sheet. They place the patties right on the styrofoam. I ended up having to wash the black foam off the patties before I could cook them. I wrote the company about it, and they said they are investigating it. I've never had that happen to frozen meat before, no matter what it was. When I found the Johnsonville links on Tuesday, I tossed the other package of Bob Evans patties in the garbage.
I also like to buy Bob Evans Sausage Gravy and Biscuits in their freezer section. The only store here that carries them is Tops, and they haven't had them for well over a month. I'm not starving by any means, but at 74, I don't like having to shop at three different stores in order to find what I need. If I happen to have a doctor's appointment in the city 15 miles away, I'll try to hit the Walmart that is there, or one of the other grocery stores that are just down the road from it.
>>> It’s definitely the one thing that the FBI/CIA embeds here at Free Republic are super frustrated about. They have daily stompy fits here.
That’s a new one on me... Care to elaborate? Examples?
I mean.. yeah... i’ve seen paid influencers for vaccines and all, but embedded CIA throwing fits about non-violence?
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