A day in the life of President Bush (photos): 04/15/05

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[anonymoussierra]

"Now, I'm off to give this back of mine a rest. It hates this chair I sit in here, but I've actually made it to the end of a Dose in one sitting!"BE STRONG GOOD FRIEND!!!Thank you"TruthNtegrity"Good G-D do will help:}}}}}}}}

[anonymoussierra]

Thank you"patriciaruth"

[snugs]

In other words anyone who works more than a few hours a week.

[Jewels1091]

Thank you!!!!! It is taking some getting use to from not working outside the home to working 44 hours a week...every time my feet hurt, I tell myself a paycheck is waiting. That sounds so good...a paycheck!

[patriciaruth]

I didn't go to Rome for the funeral mass of St. John Paul II.

My husband and I stayed up till after 3 a.m. watching it on TV.

[patriciaruth]

In other words anyone who works more than a few hours a week.

50 working weeks a year x $5.50(minimum wage/hr) = $275 for one hour work a week.

7000/275 = 27 or so hours a week work at minimum wage before you make enough to need to file.

George's tax cut increased the personal exemption levels, so these small wage earners don't have to file now.

[WaterDragon]

I can be quite mean when it's called for

I should hope SO! LOL!

[snugs]

Goodness me your minimum wage is low ours I believe started a couple of years ago at £ 3.00 something an hour and then rose I think to £4.25 or £4.50 and the Government is talking about putting it up to over £5.00 an hour so with current exchange rates that makes is always twice your minimum wage certainly 3/4 more than yours.

[patriciaruth]

The minimum wage here may be higher now. That was the rate a few years back. I took it as a starting point.

Minimum wage is not meant to be enough to support a family; it is the entry level wage and the level for summer jobs for teenagers.

One doesn't expect a person to remain at that level, but to get experience and skills and get promotions and raises in order to earn more. I think that is a philosophical difference we have with socialist countries.

[snugs]

Yes the minimum wage is a mined field until just a few years ago we never had one. It was introduced by the Blair Government. In a way it was good it stopped a lot of unscrupulous employers under paying the opposite is that where an employer may have taken a young person on for a year or so on a low wage and then if the person showed promise gradually increased their wage some small businesses cannot do that. Of course it does not catch the real rouges as they continue to employ illegally illegals.

A friend of a friend got into trouble over this and ended up having to fork out a large sum of money in back pay and grant full maternity rights to the employee.

Even so our minimum wage you could not support yourself independently on you would have to rely on some form of additional credits from the government. This is Blair's recent thing to encourage people to work pay them low but give out welfare payments to make the rest up. So the minimum wage can have the reverse affect and help keep all wages low.

It is interesting that you say main difference between the US and socialist countries does not mean on the whole people in America think of Britain as a socialist country? I suppose I think of Britain similar to America that we are basically a capitalist system which sometimes have a government to the left and sometimes to the right but basically is based upon free market trading and people making their own way in life.

It would be interesting to hear your views and others re Britain