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malthaussen

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3. That is brilliant

Reply to Liberal_in_LA (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:56 AM

Oct 2015

And a fascinating sidelight into how money circulates in this country. A minimum-wage job at heavy labor makes 7.50/hour in some places -- they charge 25.00/hour for sitting doing nothing, and get it. There's a moral there, somewhere.

-- Mal

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