Get on your soap box. What do you think?
Prices are just getting higher and higher while wadges are the same.
The one with the best Speech wins the 10 points.
So let the protest begin...no police to drag you to jail.
Just stay in the bounders of yahoo answer so you are not reported or anything.
2007-01-26 18:08:55 · 12 answers · asked by jeeccentricx2 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Preach on preach on...You all are doing great. Get if off your chest, what ever you want to say.
I have to shop at Big Lotts.
I am not rich, just a middle class Mom trying to make a difference.
2007-01-26 19:05:12 · update #1
Inflation goes with economics. So far, we are incapable to rise above that. But if all the prices are lowered and you can get anything and everything, then the marginal utility the product brings you will decrease. That is the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility. (Utility is the amount of satisfaction a consumer gets from a product.) Chances are, you cannot succeed at everything. But because both the consumers and the sellers make up the market prices, there is a chance for the products to be lowered. But even then, there is still no guarantee that it will be profitable to the consumers.
2007-01-26 18:23:59 · answer #1 · answered by Mechiko 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we could protest for lower prices for everything do you think we would get them? No. America has become so different then when it started, and not in a good way. The federal government has too much power, that was supposed to be given to the states. Any protests we make will not be ignored, it may help somewhat in the long term run, but if expecting immediate results then no we will not get them. I believe that the higher prices are idiotic, because it is a never ending cycle. If we get paid more, every thing's prices rise. So increasing wadges does nothing to help the people. I don't know if we can dig ourselves out of this hole, but I'd like to try. Though, I would like the gas prices to go down first : D
2007-01-26 18:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by Call Me Sarah 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not a chance. Boycotts are the only way, but for a boycott, you need at least 40% of the people who buy it to stop buying it in a way that won't lead to them simply buying it at a later time, or from another company.
If 40% of everyone who buys milk stopped buying it until the price went down 50 cents, it would happen, but there's no guarantee that would last, and the dairies would simply make a lot more cheese.
The sad fact is that our economy has worsened significantly in this decade...and with the extremely huge amounts of "credit card debt" the government is taking on with the war and tax cuts, our children have a terrible bill to pay.
2007-01-26 18:36:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
these days supply and demand pricing is out the window...if people will pay it they will charge it. Look at the oil companies, even when they had a reserve of crude oil (recently) and the government petitioned them to lower prices the said we have already and obviously people are willing to pay it so we will charge what they will pay...well no we aren't so willing to pay it we need it so no matter what the price we have to pay it...best thing to do look for sales and shop around but you'll probably waste the money you saved by driving out to no where to save a few bucks.
2007-01-26 18:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by Skinny 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prices are determined by market fluctuations based on supply and demand. The wages, base price at warehouse/listing value, and markup percentage also affect the price. This is also why I will probably go back to serving. I cannot live on the wages I make at my job presently.
2007-01-26 18:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has been proved that worker productivity has soared this decade, while CEOs' salaries have skyrocketed. Even though workers are busting their a****, worker wages have not increased. There has not been a minimum wage increase in a decade. Many people with minimum wage jobs cannot support their families. The profits from hard working individuals that are earning minimum wage are only going in the pockets of CEOs that are swimming in cash. Companies wouldn't go bankrupt by just paying their workers what they have rightfully earned. Everybody who is criticizing the minimum wage increase are the people who don't count pennies just to feed their families. Although this only slightly relates to your question, I had to get this off my chest.
2007-01-26 18:33:14 · answer #6 · answered by Apple Freak 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really believe that prices are controlled, not by supply and demand, as some people think...but arbitrarily, by the same people who control most of the money and want to control it all. Since the rest of us greatly outnumber them, then maybe if enough of us yelled loudly enough about it, they might listen. On the other hand, we would really have to give them reason to fear us!!! They have an agenda that is pure evil, and they are working toward a fascist kind of government that they control with the rest of us as slaves, and they really don't care one iota, about us!!!
2007-01-26 18:23:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Go take an Econ 101 class.
2007-01-26 18:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by Rick N 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Doubtful. Our economy would just tank.
The minimum wage increase will send costs even higher.
2007-01-26 18:12:59 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you don't have to, shop at walmart like the rest of us. were they always have the lowest prices.
2007-01-26 18:16:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋