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Cosmic Kitten

(3,498 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:28 AM Apr 2015

Dear Champion: Stagnant wages are putting a damper on Economic Growth

As much as I hope you earn my vote,
you need to realize that when the
majority of the public is "working poor"
or a "wage slave", economic growth is dampened.
And then everyone has a sads

However,
There is an Economic Theory called supply and demand.
Have you heard of it?

If not, it goes like this...
People need stuffs, that is a "demand".
Other people have that stuffs, "supply".
Now, when the people who need stuffs
go to the people who has stuffs they do "business".
Hence, the Theory of Supply & Demand
With me so far?

Ok.
Now, when a "demander" wants stuffs
they ask the "supplier" what does it "cost"
to get your stuffs?
"Cost" is what the "supplier" will "exchange"
with me as "compensation" for their "stuffs".

IN "merika we use fancy picture paper
as a medium of "exchange".
But where does this fancy picture paper
come from you ask?
The Gubbmint.
Well actually, not exactly.
"Friends" of the Gubbmint print the paper,
but that's a different story.

So anyways, "we" little people, (not wee little people)
gets fancy picture paper from the Big Boss Man (BBM).
We spend our day gettin "bossed" around making "stuffs"
and then the BBM gives us fancy picture paper.
Paper with more bigger numbers can gets us more stuffs.
So we like more bigger numbers on our fancy picture paper

And this is where we are getting "dampened".
See, BBM is giving us smaller and smaller
numbers on our fancy picture paper, and the
"supplier" won't gives us more stuffs we need...
like food to put on our families

So Dear Champion, if it wouldn't be too much trouble,
could you ask BBM to gives us more bigger numbers
so we can get more stuffs we need?
Mostly stuffs like food, shelter, clothes, medicines
and some fancy stuffs like the interweb or transportation

Sorry to interrupt your speechifying Dear Champion
but us little people desperately need more bigger numbers
on our fancy picture paper and less tape.
We don't even use red tape, but thanks for the concern?

Sincerely, We the little people
who actually "create" the stuffs you sell,
and "demand" the same stuffs back,
while exchanging the fancy picture paper BBM
"compensates" us with.

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