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With full time defined as thirty hours a week you are about right. I sometimes think well, I don’t make a lot of money these days and my wife and I are okay but then I look at the facts and between the two of us we bring in more than the median household income and we have no debt. No mortgage, no rent, no car payments, no credit card balances, none of that and we still don’t have money to toss around. If a young man wanted to start out now and buy a home, get married and start a family with his wife staying home to raise the kids he would be strained to the limit trying to do it on an annual income equal to what my father earned in his entire working lifetime and he raised four sons with my mother staying home. One must consider a lot of things that are usually overlooked such as the fact that if a person wants his children to have any kind of education now he must plan on sending them to PRIVATE SCHOOL from day one and that alone will cost more than it used to cost to support a family not all that long ago. The STARTING MSRP for the LOWEST PRICE 2015 model Ford F150 pickup truck is now over $25000.00! That is the bottom end, the top of the line is double that. A low end Ford pickup now costs what would have bought a quarter section farm with a nice house, outbuildings and equipment when I was a schoolboy.

I don’t believe in the minimum wage concept, I think it is a farce but those who DO claim to believe that it accomplishes something look stupid to me asking for fifteen or less an hour. If they really think it works they should be asking for at least a hundred an hour. Fifty an hour for a FORTY hour a week job now would be just a get by job for someone supporting a family without government assistance.