I don't your math is very good. $.75 was about 2.5 times the cost of one
gallon of gas- $.30 Now days 2.5 times even $2 gas would leave you short of
$5.75
Old Math teacher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: Wake up
> My first job paid minimum wage (.75/hr in 1959) that is roughly
> equivalent buying power to $10/hr today. The minimum wage today is
> $5.75/hr. In light of this, I say "So what is your point?"
> --Tom
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 1/17/01 10:45:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > << Please work harder many of my fellow americans are in more dire need
than
> > I was. >>
> >
> > I do not intend to get into a "I was poorer than you" contest.
> > But while I was trying to go to school and raise a family (years before
> > school loans), I worked two jobs, one of them busing dishes for 45 cents
an
> > hour, the other got me 62 cents and hour. Between me and the wife, we
had
> > four jobs making about $4 an hour between us. We were rasing two
children.
> > After school, while I interned, I made $60 a week, the two of us making
about
> > $115 a week with 3 children.
> > I've been there, done that.
> > Me, "self-righteous" Tom? Call me "bootstrapper" instead, someone who
crawled
> > up and out of poverty.
>
>
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