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Re: Lucky Americans
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 16:09:55 GMT
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lpieniazek@ANTISPAMnovera.com
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Pat wrote:

> Larry,
>   Anyone making $60 an hour is indeed a lucky person.  Considering that minimum
> wage is only around $5.25 and most people consider a $10 an hour job doing
> well.  No hard feelings intended here....but some of us have to work 3 hours
> for that same CD player, and it isn't behind a desk either.
> No hard feelings, just think about the blue collar guys huh?
> Pat

Your point is well taken, although I'd go farther and say that 10 an
hour isn't considered by everyone as 'doing well', if that's the wage
that a single wage earner is making. It is HARD to get by on 400 a week
pretax (that's about 20K a year).

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  Re: Lucky Americans
 
No, it's bloody IMPOSSIBLE to get by on $400/week POST-tax in my area, unless you have multiple earners in a household. With rents at $1200+ for any area short of slums around here, $400/wk barely pays the rent. Don't get me started on that :-/ (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Lucky Americans
 
(...) Larry, Anyone making $60 an hour is indeed a lucky person. Considering that minimum wage is only around $5.25 and most people consider a $10 an hour job doing well. No hard feelings intended here....but some of us have to work 3 hours for that (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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