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PeterLucas wrote:
> "kilikini" > wrote in
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>> My hubby makes about $14K a year and supports the both of us as best
>> he can. It can be done!
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> Excuse the French but.......... ***** me*!!!
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> Even with the exchange rate (it comes out to AUD$15,140.00) that is
> pathetic for the "supposed" #1 country in the world!!
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> Our 23yo daughter is working for the State electricity Board. Just doing
> office work.
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> She earns AUD$52,000.
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> My advice.......... give the 'greatest country in the world' the flick
> and come to the "Lucky Country".
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> (Although they pay their ex-soldiers jack-shit........ it's just on 4
> times what TFM is making)
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> No wonder so many people in the US turn to crime.
>

I think you're getting a distorted or inaccurate impression of the US
society on the whole based on this family's unusual situation?