If you live here was their any doubt.
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Florence is listed about middle of the article.
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quote:Originally posted by ferrellj:
Why would an industry locate here? The Shoals is a strong union area and there are other areas in Alabama that are not.
quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that.
quote:Originally posted by Road Puppy:
I could use at least another part-time job to make up some of the difference. There's none out here at the moment.
quote:Originally posted by barksdale.jeff:
The thing that is really sad is in 2007 - 2008 the economy was booming.....and the shoals area is dead last in the nation.
You would think this would wake up the leaders of the shoals area
quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Unions don't have a thing to do with it. Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that. My brother in law is one of them. So he sits his butt at home getting unemployment that our stupid president extended. So he has no incentive to find a job.
quote:Originally posted by dosvse3:
If you live here was their any doubt.
Number 1
Florence is listed about middle of the article.
quote:Originally posted by barbaros45:
beternu, by the way;
People who are (so) there are no degrees in unskilled, either you are unskilled, or you aren't) English language, the difference between "their" and "there, (comma) should not expect to pull down (down is a preposition, pull is a verb, you should use an adverb here)) increases in their pay.
quote:Re "unskilled," can you provide any link to a qualified source of authority? I doubt it.
As to the comma, that is clearly a judgment call.
quote:Originally posted by Buttercup:quote:Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
Unions don't have a thing to do with it. Most and I say most people in this area think they are too good to accept a min wage job claiming they are better than that. My brother in law is one of them. So he sits his butt at home getting unemployment that our stupid president extended. So he has no incentive to find a job.
Unless you are a college student or living at home with mom and dad, you can't make it on minimum wage. In India you'd be considered upper-middle class, but here in the U.S.A. our stuff costs much more. You can't pay rent with minimum wage much less a mortgage, utilities, food, gas, etc., so I wouldn't be so quick to classify people as lazy because they don't want to take them. Additionally, a future employer usually bases a future salary on the last job the potential employee held. Do you want to have to put down minimum wage and start all over again? Many of the people who are unemployed lost very good-paying jobs through no fault of their own, just a casualty of the economy.
The fact is many of our good-paying jobs (manufacturing) got out-sourced and the ones that are left (construction) are done at reduced wages because there are plenty of illegals willing to do it for much less; we're starting to see many of our white-color jobs go the same way. I do realize the benefits of globalization, but our policy makers weren't thinking very long term when they started signing all of these free trade agreements. Someone needs to come up with something quick or I'm afraid we're going to see long term high unemployment rates and we'll just have to get used to being a country with only service jobs - and hope we make enough cash to buy all those cheap imports from the very countries that now have our old jobs.
quote:Originally posted by barbaros45:quote:Re "unskilled," can you provide any link to a qualified source of authority? I doubt it.
As to the comma, that is clearly a judgment call.
A "judgement call" that is eighth grade mechanics .. my point is, just stop correcting everyone else until you...get it right... as to "qualified authority" do you have an eighth grade grammar book?
Why is it okay when you use bad grammar, and you berate others when they misspeak? kinda childish, right?