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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (56151)	3/18/2006 11:15:14 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

If you're still eating as much as you were 35 years ago I'd bet you've got an overweight situation going on I run a 3:56 marathon, what's your best time? Food is such a small percentage of my household budget that even if my husband and I were to give up eating altogether it wouldn't make a huge difference in the total budget. As for your argument about paying your employees....Why not just pass the cost on to your customers in keeping with CPI? Oh yeah, that doesn't work, does it? Both their wages and what I can charge for my products are set by the market for those goods. It would be nice if I could simply set my prices at what I thought was a fair markup on my cost of goods and labor, but alas, if I set too much higher than the next guy I lose in volume what I might gain in price. I did the next best thing to giving them a cost of living raise, I got rid of all my employees! They all went out on their own because I taught them how to run a business while they were receiving slave wages. To the man (and woman) they're all doing more productive work now that pays a lot better than being a darkroom jockey, they've all been wildly successful. In fact, former employees keep coming back to me as customers. Now you know you are good at letting people go when they come back and hire you to do work for them after you fired their ass.