On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 6:32:24 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 04:11:38 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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> >On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 at 12:10:55 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 10:54:05 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 1:05:38 PM UTC-10, GM wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > SORRY there TERTBEL...I was "indisposed", as "my shoes were in a swamp in Sweden..."
> >> > >
> >> > > Just so ya know, I don't believe in the "minimum wage", either...and Leo's comment to which you replied is *spot on* correct...
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > > Best
> >> > > Greg
> >> >
> >> > Minimum wage is pretty meaningless if it won't allow a couple to pay for their housing, food, medical, and education. You know, like we were able to when we were young.
> >>
> >> Minimum wage never allowed that. I made slightly more than minimum wage
> >> at my first job and had to have a roommate to help with the bills.
> >>
> >> Cindy Hamlton
> >
> >I never said that minimum wage allowed anything. Minimum wage is pretty much a scam that doesn't mean much.
>
> Isn't it better than nothing?

Infinitely better than nothing! Summer of 1979 after I had been fired from my job at Venture's bakery I was receiving $72/week unemployment checks and that's how I lived Summer of 1979!! Outside in a suburban ballfield most of the time, I kid you NOT!

John Kuthe...