[AngelaRetired]

I may be wrong and in my old age tend to imagine stuff/lol, I seem to remember reading an article or two last week about a "shortage of land" in Florida? I seem to remember the title mentioned our "citrus".

Thanks for link!

Angela

[beachmouse]

Alabama lets farmers lease prison labor to get crops out of the ground.

The problem with doing that in Florida is that there is no one to supervise those kinds of programs- our lord and savior is already mobilizing the National Guard to work in the prisons because it’s easier than filling those prison guard jobs with ’people who want to work’

As for free market solutions, there are areas where the free market works very well and areas where it’s less so.

Double so in some areas of medicine where allowing for an effective monopoly in an area for a procedure or type of medicine actually gets you better outcomes because it allows for concentration in that specialty and the building of very high skill levels for procedures and areas of expertise. Studies bear out that you’re better to have, say four places in a state allowed to perform heart transplants for example purposes rather than 12 different places competing against each other to do heart transplants. The number of transplants will be the same; by concentration and monopoly you get specialists who only do heart transplants rather than splitting their time between heart, kidney and corneal transplants and patients get better outcomes.

[AngelaRetired]

Hmmm, so does he have folks to "replace" the National Guard Team when they are NEEDED for whatever they do? Nope!

[beachmouse]

Probably not but then you live down here, you roll the dice every July through November and hope you don’t have to draw down resources you may or may not have if The Big One hits. He’s not the first governor to do that and won’t be the last.

[AngelaRetired]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

Probably not but then you live down here, you roll the dice every July through November and hope you don’t have to draw down resources you may or may not have if The Big One hits. He’s not the first governor to do that and won’t be the last.

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

High school unemployment is at an all-time low thanks mostly to laws restricting their work hours which is difficult for businesses to work around. College students are all about internships in their chosen field and don't know of any who would resort to washing dishes. Lastly because Americans are typically so unaware of where their food comes from or how, there's this to be concerned with. https://www.inlander.com/spokane/far...t?oid=22868670

The big problem is over the last 15 or so years is a lot of seniors, people in their 60s and 70s are now taking these part-time jobs at places like Wal-mart, Publix, Winn-Dixie, etc. Older people tend to show up on time more often and not call out as much versus a 16-21 year old calling out because they want to join their friends at the beach.

I work part time at Publix and the teens call out all the time. I remember once one called out and screwed us over on staff, then I see her posting on facebook beach pics.

Here in SWFL there are TONS of seniors working at Publix as cashiers, baggers. But the thing is not all of them need the cash. I have some who work just 2 days a week and they got nice nest eggs, yet want something to keep them busy.

[AngelaRetired]

Yes, that is called a Retirement Job Had a cashier job myself but you could NOT pay me enough to do that again. Customers and some front-end managers DO NOT "appreciate" us at all. My next Retirement Job, have no idea but no retail/lol.

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by AngelaRetired

Yes, that is called a Retirement Job Had a cashier job myself but you could NOT pay me enough to do that again. Customers and some front-end managers DO NOT "appreciate" us at all. My next Retirement Job, have no idea but no retail/lol.

I mean many of them don't need to work when it's just an extra maybe 8k a year for them.

[silverct9a]

Not a brag or anything, but all of my friends/inner circle makes at least low six figures here in Florida. Most of them are mid to late 30s and here in South Florida, but I have a few in the Tampa and St. Pete area making that too.

Not sure what all this low wage talk is about - I’ve seen a seismic shift in wages in Florida within the past few years.

[AngelaRetired]

If you do not mind sharing, no pressure to respond - what careers do they have?