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I have never bought a RC car in my life... When I was in school in the 60's the compard the Russian standard of living to ours by saying "A Russian worker has to work 20 hours to buy a pair of shoes, an American one only 5, or something along those lines. And I"m not talking about the cheap Walmart shoes that don't fit your feet right, a quality pair of shoes that you can actually wear without discomfort. Most clothes are cheaper to buy, yes, but they don't fit like they should. They just changed the style to more baggy... I think it would be more relevant to compare the prices of the batteries the RC car needed replaced on a regular basis. Or the printer cartridges a printer needs regularly. The last TV I bought is about 8 years old, and I may not replace it when they go HDTV. What is the price of programming (cable, satellite, etc) and the quality, (or lack of) the programing you can watch. Are there more commercials? That would be more of an indicator. What about the price of concert tickets of someone you'd actually want to see? My wife does most of the grocery shopping for the 2 of us, and when I do go with her, I get sticker shock at the prices. It get sticker shock all the time in my business, the price of freight, materials, maintenance items, etc. Freight costs for my product is up from 600 to 1000%. Inbound too. How are the UPS rates for you, Wayne? What about the oversize items, still the same? To me, the ongoing items you pay every month are a much better indicator of the Cost of Living than the 1 time purchases.
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OK...Here ya go...
Snippets from an Associated Press article today (May 25): Danger and exhaustion came with the job in the decade that Chen Tianyun spent as a restaurant deliverymen in Manhattan. Traffic threatened to squash his scooter like a dumpling. He survived an armed robbery. Most weeks, he toiled 70 hours so he could send money to his family in China. And for his effort, he said he was paid a slalary of $550 a month-about $1.81 an hour. Stories like Chen's are a dime a dozen in New York City, where immigrants make up nearly alf of the work force and employers who ignore labor laws have long been able to count on a complicit silence from laborers thankful for a job. But lately, many of those arrangements have been threatened by a simmering service industry rebellion.......... the complaints cover a wide variety of industries and workers, from landscapers and warehouse laborers, to shop clerks and construction workers, but most share a common trait. They involve immigrants who have become bolder about going to court to demand their proper pay, regardless of their legal status....... Busboys who cleared tables at Chinese buffets across New Jersey have sued, claiming their daily wages consisted entirely of tips-minus kickbacks to managers of as much as $20 per shift...... Other lawsuits have come from workers at nail salons, and small retail stores who say they were never paid for overtime. ..... Managers at some of the grocery stores being sued over the treatment of baggers have said the workers were not employees at all and were offering their services to customers on their own time....... Sounds like a new "Underclass" to me........ The entire article can be found on line. Look it up and read it.
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