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What do you consider to be an outragous salary?
Would you pick up trash for any amount of money or does a college education shield your consideration of such a job?

Maybe some would consider your salarys outragous! How much is a desk job worth in salary considering there is little physical exertion and the hands stay clean? Not saying you work desk jobs, just for comparative purposes. But should a pencil pusher be paid more than a garbage collector?
Pencil pushers seem to dislike Unions because it places their salary within an equal consideration of a Union worker. Yet any worker feels like his/her job is a significant contribution to America. Or is it a stigma that is might be possible for a garbage collector to buy a house next to a white collar worker and send their kids to the same school?

Maybe a good retirement program can offset a failing social Security program?
What is the cost of living in New York compared to say Kokomo?
The fear of the cost of food skyrocketing is more of a supply demand issue than a labor issue. If the crop needs to be harvested and help is short, wages will fall in line to attract workers. We still haven't seen the 10 dollar Big Mac yet, dispite warnings about raising fast food workers wages from minimum to 8 dollars an hour.