...Under President George W Bush an extra 5.4 million have slipped below the poverty line. Yet they are not a story of the unemployed or the destitute. Most have jobs. Many have two...
... The richest town in America is Rancho Santa Fe in California. Average incomes are more than $100,000 a year; the average house price is $1.7m.
Yep, I bought into the work hard and you will succeed around fifteen years ago. It almost killed me. I worked two jobs, 7 days a week 56-72 hours a week, graveyard shift every night, no benefits, no holiday pay, no time-and-a half. Neither job was minimum wage, and I still couldn't afford my own apartment, and I wasn't supporting my child at that time, her father was. I lived less than 20 minutes from Rancho Santa Fe and I never drove there in my piece of crap car because I didn't want to attract attention from the police. I'm not now, nor have I ever been a lawbreaker. My boss never changed my withholding when I asked him to, so I paid over five-hundred in State tax at the end of the year. It lasted a little over a year & I got laid off, and the company moved to a State that paid less per hour, and a few years later I found out that the company now uses workers in India. Anybody wonder why I want to give a big fat middle finger to Corporate America and their skanky lobbyists? I'd like to give another big fat middle finger to the Corporate whores in Congress.
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