you want a tax increase?
Jun 21, 2019 12:19:37 #
boberic wrote:
In any business only 2 groups are important for the success of the compant. The people who make it (wh**ever the product) and the people who sell it. If you can't make it, don't matter how much you sell and if you can't sell it don't matter how much you make. Every one else in the company is support.
Government produces nothing but waste.
NASA never produced a spaceship.
Department of edukkkashun never educated a single person.
Jun 21, 2019 13:42:30 #
John_F wrote:
Yes, some new jobs, but at what wage and doing what. Soda jerk, cafe server, master machinist, .... Hondo, get specific. Mining jobs has less to do with ‘boots on the ground’ and much more to do with economic mineral deposits. There is a good geologic reason what copper mining fled to Chili.
The company I work at is relatively small. This is a contract medical device outfit. 3.5 years ago we were at about 60 employees. Today we are at 96 and still growing. The bulk of the hires are engineers and assemblers/technicians.
In the Boston area there are more engineering jobs than applicants. The current unemployment rate is 2.2%. If you want a job you should be able to find one easily.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/boston_ma_unemployment_rate
Jun 21, 2019 14:21:22 #
hondo812 wrote:
The company I work at is relatively small. This is a contract medical device outfit. 3.5 years ago we were at about 60 employees. Today we are at 96 and still growing. The bulk of the hires are engineers and assemblers/technicians.
In the Boston area there are more engineering jobs than applicants. The current unemployment rate is 2.2%. If you want a job you should be able to find one easily.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/boston_ma_unemployment_rate
In the Boston area there are more engineering jobs than applicants. The current unemployment rate is 2.2%. If you want a job you should be able to find one easily.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/boston_ma_unemployment_rate
WOW!!! 2.2% is incredible. Thank you President Trump. The Democrats who were happy with Obama and his flipping burgers jobs must be livid at Trump for screwing up big time. How dare he do so well in such a short amount of time?
Dennis
Jun 21, 2019 15:47:06 #
dennis2146 wrote:
WOW!!! 2.2% is incredible. Thank you President Trump. The Democrats who were happy with Obama and his flipping burgers jobs must be livid at Trump for screwing up big time. How dare he do so well in such a short amount of time?
Dennis
Dennis
Yes Dennis, I could not agree more.
You have to keep in mind that Massachusetts regularly goes through a "fall off the cliff" scenario with respect to the main drivers of its economy. At the turn of the 20th century we were mainly textiles and shoes. Then BooM! That all packed and left for the South and Massachusetts was devastated. We had Hi-tech(computer era), Department of Defense, even Medical Devices. All got too costly and left for cheaper locales.
For the last 20 or so years the big thing has been Financial Services. I've never worked in that field and I know its not for me. I've spent the last 40 or so years working DoD contractors, some Industrial, some Textiles (for the paper making industry) and mostly Medical Devices. Most of the manufacturing left for Mexico or China 15 or more years ago. It's never coming back. But small places like where I am now do ok....at least sometimes. I've been here for 12 years and have seen at least 5 major layoffs. The last one seemed to only affect those over 60, a number I am currently approaching.
Anyways, the last few have been amazing in this economy. I know that O keeps trying to pat himself on the back for the Trump economy but to anyone paying attention it's been night and day. The reality of that 2.2% figure is that some "unemployable" people have jobs, and that is huge!
Jun 21, 2019 15:57:31 #
hondo812 wrote:
Yes Dennis, I could not agree more. br br You hav... (show quote)
I did not know of the job factors, jobs coming and going. But I do know Liberals tell us this economy is all Obama’s doing and not Trump. My few word answer is they are full of their usual BS.
Had Obama run for a third term he would have/could have never achieved these numbers. While Obama said it was impossible to create new jobs it appears Trump did just exactly that. Trump went to businessmen in other countries and invited them to create jobs in America. Trump opened up oil, gas, steel and coal jobs even though Hillary actually told Americans she would shut down the coal industry. Then she wondered why she lost the e******n. Amazing.
Dennis
Jun 21, 2019 17:02:48 #
John_F wrote:
Yes, some new jobs, but at what wage and doing what. Soda jerk, cafe server, master machinist, .... Hondo, get specific. Mining jobs has less to do with ‘boots on the ground’ and much more to do with economic mineral deposits. There is a good geologic reason what copper mining fled to Chili.
Low taxes and less unemployment makes an economy go up
Easy to figure it up.
Just admit the economy is great and stop trying to demolish facts.
Jun 22, 2019 10:24:21 #
John_F wrote:
Yes, some new jobs, but at what wage and doing what. Soda jerk, cafe server, master machinist, .... Hondo, get specific. Mining jobs has less to do with ‘boots on the ground’ and much more to do with economic mineral deposits. There is a good geologic reason what copper mining fled to Chili.
You really should not highlight your ignorance!
PLEASE.....do some reading, will you? The lower third of the wage scale has been getting increases over 4% for the first time in decades.
Jun 24, 2019 09:55:57 #
dennis2146 wrote:
I did not know of the job factors, jobs coming and... (show quote)
Yeah...Obama wanted a new tax on all medical devices produced, whether or not they were saleable devices. The long and the short of it was he wanted to tax R&D samples, Clinical studies devices, the whole gamut of regulatory requirements for bringing a device to market. Huge companies, the Johnson & Johnson's of the medical device world would be able to absorb it but it would literally drown the start-ups in this industry where it can take 5 or more years to get your product released. In other words they would have to pay taxes on each device built but have no income stream from those devices.
Even Democrats in Congress were opposed to this tax.
It is not far fetched to say that this was an effort to offshore an entire industry.
For now, the tax is on hold despite it's near universal unpopularity. Time will tell.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynewinegarden/2018/10/24/repeal-the-medical-device-tax/#14a19d3e334f
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