chasio, want to hear something sad? When I was a SATO Government Travel Agent on Loring Air Force Base up here, I was making $8.64 an hour. I forget what I started at. But 7.5 years later, I was up to $8.64.
I ask one of the girls at SATO down at Rome, New York, and she was making $13 dollars an HOUR doing the same work as me! And she even had less time on the job!
I ask my boss "what is going on here," and she told me that it was because of "my location." Maine. Boy, was I pissed!
Money to pay for the war has to come from somewhere. Chasio reminds that there are jobs in the service sector. That is a big chunk of Maine economy...but that will be cut soon. This war is a distraction from what is really happening economically to this country.
A few days ago, the Iraqis shot down a Predator and the commentator said "no big thing"..yeah, that missile would pay for a new school or a real cure for cancer.