The employment crisis and more.

I’m sure you have all heard about this. No workers available. Just about every shop, business I drive by has a sign out help wanted. Small business will suffer badly for what is going on. Is this what you want to happen? There is much talk, action, about higher pay to get help. Don’t people realize what this will do to our economy? Say an employer pays minimum wage to a new employee to sweep the floor, keep the shop or business clean etc. Will this employee get paid $15.00 an hour? What about the more seasoned employees at this same business aren’t they worth more than new helper? So they need a substantial raise also. NOW who pays for all this? The shop owner will. BUT if he or she pays it from existing profits this business will go under in no time. So the owner has to raise his prices to the customers. Now the customers have to pay much more for the same item and the difference is called inflation. To the point that at some point the customer says I can’t afford that and doesn’t buy it. Now the business owner is closing up for a lack of business. And the employees are now out of a job. Big business may be able to make this work but small business’ will disappear. This is not a good thing at all. We all need to wake up and be real again. What is making this all happen? If it is our Government officials we need to rethink them and get people in that know what they are doing and in the right way for us the people. Not a short term good feeling and then a catastrophe.

Think about this PLEASE and come to you own conclusions. We are on a path that will lead us to a place none of us will like.

Small Local business

I’ve been speaking about some things that upset me. I don’t want to be all negative, it’s really not me.

We all know how the cost of food has gone crazy. Seems everything is twice as much and some things even more. This gave me a thought about local farmers, and produce. My wife said today she was going to buy a bag of spinach it was marked at $5.00 and something, and this was at Wal-Mart. She refused to pay that when a few months ago it was $2.00 – $2.50. So we have decided to go local and buy produce from the local farmers, at the markets and road sides. We have many of them around town and in the countryside.

So that is our goal for this weekend to see how they stack up. The produce will be fresh, hopefully more reasonable and we can support local business. Being a businessman I know how that helps. So next week I will let you all know how it works out. And hopefully we will help a farmer and ourselves.

PaulMin