Hawkings former plumber
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April 23rd, 2007, 10:45 PM
Quoting L Gilbert
Not to mention the brain damage, you're a wreck Gil. You better hope us socialists manage to hang on to medi-care for you. I won't be pulling the plug on you because my yaught needs new carpeting.
53. I figure I might have another 2 decades in me. Firefighting takes its toll. I have high blood pressure and one kidney left. Odds are against me making the average.
Les
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Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
April 23rd, 2007, 10:47 PM
I think the minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour and a bill is in the works to increase that to $7 or $7.25. So I guess if Beav's article is correct, there's an awful lot of unemployed in the US. yet according to Nationmaster the unemployment rate is only about 5% of the labor force. Here's a breakdown: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat8.pdf from http://www.bls.gov/cps/#tables
I think the minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour and a bill is in the works to increase that to $7 or $7.25. So I guess if Beav's article is correct, there's an awful lot of unemployed in the US. yet according to Nationmaster the unemployment rate is only about 5% of the labor force. Here's a breakdown: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat8.pdf from http://www.bls.gov/cps/#tables
Hawkings former plumber
Posts: 9,226
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Location: RR1 Distopia 666 Discordia Drive Apt 911
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April 23rd, 2007, 10:48 PM
Quoting #juan
My spelling can't be that bad if you could figure it out Juan.
You mean incorrect like your spelling? A 160,000 homeless (twice the population of Nanaimo.) in LA are probably selling drugs or something. While I agree that in California, one could get away with not having a warm house, but in Detroit, Deluth, or New York, you would sure as hell have a rough winter....if you survived.
Les
Posts: 6,049
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
Location: 50 acres in Kootenays BC
April 23rd, 2007, 11:23 PM
By the time the healthcare system figures out there might be something wrong I'd have been dead a week. Thanks but it's a joke. If it didn't rain so much in Switzerland, I'd move there; the healthcare there is one of the top 5 in the world according to the World Health Org. and they have a 3-tier system.
Quoting darkbeaver
Yep. I'm some wreck. I can still run the hundred meters in under 12 secs and bench press the entire weight set in the universal gym downtown several times. And you can't out reason me, brain damage or not.
Not to mention the brain damage, you're a wreck Gil. You better hope us socialists manage to hang on to medi-care for you. I won't be pulling the plug on you because my yaught needs new carpeting.
By the time the healthcare system figures out there might be something wrong I'd have been dead a week. Thanks but it's a joke. If it didn't rain so much in Switzerland, I'd move there; the healthcare there is one of the top 5 in the world according to the World Health Org. and they have a 3-tier system.
