anything made in US anymore?

[Chubminnow]

hate going to the store buying the bare min to eat and here comes come body packin a whole cart full of steaks which i ain`t had one in months.

You still live down near West Point? Heck Doug...I'm steadily employed again (at least as of this posting I am anyway, lol), a man never can tell if he's going to have a job from one day to the next anymore with this economy we have. But I still live in Valley Station...we ain't that far from each other. You're welcome to come to my house anytime, we'll sit on the deck with grilled steaks, grilled onions and mushrooms, maybe some baked potatoes, green beans or brocolli along with a couple of drinks and cigars and we'll solve some of the worlds problems together.

[HURRICANEBOB]

When the cost to produce declines, so do the price of products. When product prices are high, manufacturers in the US become non-competitive and the production jobs go overseas.

When we decide to stop paying out unemployment, more folks will take $8.00/hour jobs. If the guy can sit on his butt and get $320 unemployment/wk, some don't have the motivation to work 40 hours to earn the same amount.

I'd favor "employment supplements". Here's how it would work. Guy loses his job, and will get UEC for not more that 90 days. After that, if he has secured a job that atleast pays minimum wage, he gets 1/3 of the EUC check he would have gotten as a motivation to stay employed. That supplement would last for the period his EUC would have been granted. After that, the supplement stops, and the guy has to do well at work to earn a raise to replace the supplement, or at least has work history, and time to help him be prepared to find a higher paying job. If a guy enters this program and gets fired for cause, all EUC stops.

I think we need to motivate people to work for a living in some cases, rather than reward the unmotivated or unwilling. I think we could reduce unemplyment cash outlays, and use that money to help stimulate businesses that do hire the folks that would have gotten a monthly UEC check.