misterman
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You said EXACTLY that.
Then you misunderstood or I misspoke.
You said EXACTLY that.
So you never ever adjusted any other costs down, whether or not your labor costs went up? All increases in costs always led to price increases?
And did you lose business due to the price increases?
Today is a great day to prove my point of where the problem lies.
Bernanke comes out today saying that the Fed is going to make money even cheaper.
Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Dollar Swap Rate - Bloomberg
Who is benefiting today? The markets.
INDU Quote - Dow Jones Industrial Average Index - Bloomberg
Did the workers at Target get a raise because they are going to need it.
Oil above $101 on central banks's liquidity plan - Yahoo! News
Fundementally are things getting better? That is, the markets are rising but is it because of the things that will creat employment? No.
News Headlines
Read this headline. The things that would actually create real growth has been revised downward with wages following. Shouldn't the markets react negatively to this? No, they are rejoicing because Bernanke is going to continue creating inflation.
There is your problem.
Of course not.... you really don't have any clue how businesses are run do you ????
Costs are cut temporarily for many reasons, but they can't be cut permanently in most cases.
You tell me since you are the business guru............what costs can be cut without reducing product and service quality, both of which will reduce sales.
How did Wal-Mart do it then? It built an entire business model on it.
Really? Businesses have never ever found ways to cut costs while producing the same amount at the same quality? Efficiency doesn't happen?
And I also wonder if you have you ever demanded that the government do the same with less money.
By beating up on suppliers, an entirely different scenario.
I am talking from the perspective of a service company. Any increases in efficiency or cost cutting we implement are minimal and do not appreciably affect profit.
No, I demand that they do LESS with less money.
But they did it, didn't they?
And no, my example showed how they did it in other ways too.
The bottom line is that your claim that "there's just nothing we can do, we have to keep doing business the same way" is lame and false. It's how businesses fail.
I seriously doubt that too. Thanks for at least acknowledging that some companies can find new ways of doing business and cut costs without sacrificing quality or production though. Maybe you'll pull your head out of the sand and do the same thing. Or just fail like those that don't.
You don't think there's any room for more efficiency in government?
You don't think there's any room for more efficiency in government?
Nice strawman... I never said anything of the kind.
We've been around for over 40 years now, so we must be doing something right.
That's an oxymoron.
This is simple. If you don't like your job, get another job.