Re: MSNBC (Oberg) - Deadly space lessons go unheeded

From: Jim Oberg (jameseoberg_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:25:35 GMT

"JazzMan" <No_Spam@airmail.net> wrote
> I challenge all you allegedly intelligent people here to sit
> down and write out a simple budget using real world numbers
> and show proof that someone making minimum wage can afford
> health insurance and live a minimal life out of the rain on
> at least 1,600 calories a day. Electricity, phone, entertainment,
> and education costs extra, of course.

So if a person's labor is only commercially valued at (or below)
the 'minimum wage', what's the solution -- take some of my money
and give it to them?

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