Re: Oh my Gawd! Carly!

On Fri, 2 May 2008 19:54:25 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On May 2, 6:11 pm, JosephKK <quiettechb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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You were living in a place with a minimum wage and "full time" didn't
mean 80 hours a week. In the subsistence situation where it takes all
of your time to get enough to feed yourself, you wouldn't have had the
option of going to school.

I was working overtime some of the time (and glad for the extra), made
a damn sight more than minimum wage, and still had cash flow problems.
I had other interferences and obligations as well. I did not let it
stop me. It is an attitude difference, how well do you know any teens
in your area? Do any of them have the kind of won't quit attitude?

You are proving my point.

Only from your twisted point of view.

You were working in a place where there was
a minimum wage and getting more than the minimum wage

There has been a minimum wage in the US since before i was born.

and were not living purely hand to mouth

It was actually worse, consist ant significant negative monthly cash
flow for about 10 years.

and not having to work all the hours you
could just to feed yourself.

Only by kiting several credit cards to peak at a total debit over a
years gross income before graduating. And wanting every additional
scrap of income i could find, given my schedule constraints.

You gat an education.

And much of that time living in a "slum" neighborhood.

Now reconsider
what would have happened if you had had to work absolutely every
waking hour just to get enough to feed your self.

As it was there were years that i could not even do that reliably,
with a steady well paid job.

Would you have
gotten the education, obviously not.

Not even going to prison would have stopped me.

As a result you would not be
contributing as much to the economy.

You seem to have a low view of the youth of today.

Learned on the bitter rocks of experience.

The elders ever
since there have been written records have been bemoaning the laziness
of the youth and yet there is no evidence of a long term decline.

Just because you refuse to see it, does not men that it is not there.




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