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Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:02:00 +0000

If you're the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room.

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:01:04 +0000

Alright I have slightly lead us astray from the original topic - Greedy restaurant owners. Darden Restaurants operates 1,800 casual restaurants (Olive Garden, Mararoni Grill) across the country. It only has a profit margin of 5.7%. Again I ask, how is that greedy? They have money to invest in surveying for the best spot to open a new restaurant and they are still only at 5.7% profit margin. The average long term return on US stocks is 6.5%. So how is that greedy? They don't make much money. Yes they have to build into their business plan tips for employees because otherwise they would go out of business and neither one (the owner and the waiter) would have a job. Then both people lose. The waiter doesn't get paid much as they owner because the owner has much more responsibility than the waiter. That's the way thing should and do work. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Darden_Restaurants... Read the link this time before you assume you know what it is talking about.

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:25:35 +0000

"Their prices are already much too high" "they should either increase prices or learn how to manage." So really they should just learn how to manage since their prices are already too high. The entire restaurant industry, all the hundreds of thousands of restaurants out there, should learn how to manage. It sounds so easy when you put it like that! You should open a restaurant. you can't just throw out crap and expect it to stick. Just because you say something doesn't make it true or worthwhile. Opinions are only as good as the FACTS that back them.

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:59:47 +0000

According to the 2010 OPerations Report by the National Restaurant Association, full service restaurants have a profit margin, depending on check amount, ranged from 1.8% to 3.5%. That is terrible. They can't afford to pay their employees anything better than what they do. If they raised the cost of their goods to make up for increase in wages they'd go out of business because people would stop visiting. Have you ever talked to someone who tried to open up a restaurant? It's incredibly difficult. So how is that greedy? Where is the greed at 3.5% ROR? http://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-profit-mar...

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:42:13 +0000

Profit margins for retail is pretty low. And so is for restaurants. If two spaces are available for rent and one lease is less because he used less expensive labor, where do you think the business would go? You speak to "greed" but you have not backed up where this greed is found. I'm not talking Wall Street. That's a different subject. I'm talking "Main Street." What are the profit margins for the industries? Just because a company makes huge profits does not make them greedy. OIl companies have under a 10% profit margins which is less than a good return on stock. They just make so much damn money it seems they are greedy but it costs a lot to run a huge business. They need to make money so they can invest it and grow. Is it possible for union memebers to be greedy? To be asked to be paid for more than they are worth?

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:04:27 +0000

So I work in construction management and we bid projects. we sum up all the costs it is to build the project and part of these costs are, naturally, wages of those working. So if a union says all carpenters get paid $80/hour (which is not far off from what many are paid because of unions) then we must estimate how many hours carpenters will be working and times that by $80 to get the labor cost. Now if we are able to find as good of help at $60/hour and legally allowed to hire the help, well then we save $20 per man hour worked. So yes lowering wages lowers the cost of goods. And let's say we're building an office building. WEll the owner now saves money on the construction of the buildling because labor was cheaper so he does not have to charge his tenants as much to lease it out because it didn't cost him as much to build it. Well if the leasers don't have to pay as much in rent, well then they don't have to charge as much for their product because rent isn't so high. And boom! Everyone wins. Well except for you because you remain ignorant.

Daily Camera.com: : Marsha Budz: The real lessons of Wisconsin recall election - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:18:42 +0000

If wages drop, so does the price of goods. Labor is often the biggest cost for producing goods. That or corporate taxes. Nice slippery slope attempt.

Daily Camera.com: : RC Lloyd: Republicans are buying the United States government - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:46:18 +0000

The rights of the individual to do with as they please what they have earned. That created by the individual does not belong to the collective. Part of this does belief does include the right to accumulate material wealth. I'm not rich nor do I care to be. But I wish to be able to keep what I have earned. Just as you can not explain all the reasons behind all your beliefs in short post online, I am unable to do the same. But the core belief behind which I believe is my life and my survival does not belong to the collective. I am an individual living in a world with individuals. I do not fear/oppose groups, collaboration, or the power of team work. But that which I create (whether with people or by my own labor) belongs to those who created it, not to the collective. Just as I will not ask you to live for me, I wish to not live for you. You may call that refusing to live for someone else selfish, but I believe it is less selfish than asking someone to live for you.

Daily Camera.com: : RC Lloyd: Republicans are buying the United States government - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:59:31 +0000

If that is really what you think, they you do not understand what we stand for.

Daily Camera.com: : Chris Beranek: President Obama is a delinquent and a phony - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 29 May 2012 17:32:09 +0000

Please provide evidence that James O'Keefe is up for charges of sexual assualt. I can not find it anywhere. I am not conviced you are lying however I am very skeptical.

Daily Camera.com: : Scott M. Williams: Mitt Romney is still a bully - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:48:13 +0000

Sometimes I wonder how Boulder was voted the "most intelligent city in the country"

Daily Camera.com: : Rick Casey: Corporations are not people - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:55 +0000

We're actually gaining numbers and it's pretty much split across the board, at least within a few precentage points (1/3 dem, 1/3 rep, 1/3 independent) and has stayed so for quite some time.

Daily Camera.com: : Rick Casey: Corporations are not people - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:22:47 +0000

Well apparently to some of your friends, we're nothing BUT radicals as well. I've heard the word extremist used before?

Daily Camera.com: : Rick Casey: Corporations are not people - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:21:41 +0000

Last time I looked your boy Obama's not doing so hot. According to you this win in November should be easy because you're facing a white, upclass Mormon who worked at a private equity firm. Shoot why even campaign. Obama should be able to play golf all week and be fine.

Daily Camera.com: : Rick Casey: Corporations are not people - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:18:28 +0000

Good. I was unsure about what I believed until you took the time to spell it out for me. Can I still be elitist if I'm not rich? I sure hope so because otherwise I'd have to be a liberal... ugh the shame.

Daily Camera.com: : Rick Casey: Corporations are not people - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:16:09 +0000

how much money has GM cost the tax payers? Why must the government keep a company afloat? Were you against the bank bailouts? Ford managed to restructure without any government assistance. Does Bain Capital not have the ability to decide where they wish to invest their money? I'm not fighting for Bain Capital but arguing against your belief of compassion.

Daily Camera.com: : Charles L. King: Civil unions -- Every child deserves a mother and father - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:11:22 +0000

Never said it was. If you look at what I was responding to, you will see that he states he was going to let God determine what was right and wrong. And all we have to go off of is the Bible. I did not say the Bible should be the law of the land or that we should move to a theocracy.

Daily Camera.com: : Charles L. King: Civil unions -- Every child deserves a mother and father - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:11:15 +0000

Did I say the purpose of marriage is to create life?

Daily Camera.com: : Charles L. King: Civil unions -- Every child deserves a mother and father - Boulder Daily Camera

Thu, 10 May 2012 02:10:57 +0000

Yes and allow me to explain. I agree with the idea that gay couples should be allowed to see each other in the hospital. Why would anyone want to limit loved one's access to hospitalized patients? Should they get tax breaks if they are sharing a life together? Yes but that is because I think everyone should get tax breaks. I don't care who they find attractive. Should they be allowed to adopt? I don't think so because I believe children should be raised by a mother and father who love each other deeply. Of course many heterosexual couples are way worse parents than homosexuals and I not all children raised up by homosexual couples turn out to be crazies. But time tested values and a good family structure has proven to be the best environment. I have nothing against people being gay. I have met some great people who are gay and I treat them as I treat others. Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Daily Camera.com: : Charles L. King: Civil unions -- Every child deserves a mother and father - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 9 May 2012 20:53:01 +0000

You could use prostitution as a substitute for beastiality.