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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

“It’s real difficult because I got to support a wife and four kids, and $8.75 just can’t make it,”


I worked at Shakeys for $1.90 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to drafting school. Then I got $5.75 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to COBOL programming school. Then I moved to $6.75 and peaked at $125 an hour.

If someone want’s more money, they make themselves more valuable - or get used to driving an old Vega.


49 posted on 04/15/2015 11:22:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

Shhhh....all that “self-improvement”/(old) American Dream talk....that’s raciss.


59 posted on 04/15/2015 11:32:54 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: cuban leaf; All

“I worked at Shakeys for $1.90 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to drafting school. Then I got $5.75 an hour. I wanted more money so I went to COBOL programming school. Then I moved to $6.75 and peaked at $125 an hour.

If someone want’s more money, they make themselves more valuable - or get used to driving an old Vega.”

POST OF THE DAY.


62 posted on 04/15/2015 11:35:40 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: cuban leaf

Some people will never make more than minimum wage. They need to be told that minimum wage was never meant to support a family of four. In many places it cannot support a single person without pitching in and room with two or three other workers.


70 posted on 04/15/2015 11:55:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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