sf wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:28:09 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:10:33 -0600, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> sf wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:22:15 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No real business can survive on $125 per day gross income.
>>>>>
>>>>> Forget the business. How can a single person can do more than
>>>>> couch surf at that rate, when they live in or near an urban area?
>>>>
>>>> Umm, it's 15$ an hour. Granted it's only 32.5K a year, but with a
>>>> spouse working, puts you pretty much into middle income levels.
>>>
>>> $32k is barely making it here or any urban area AFAIC.
>>
>> It's not a whole lot in some areas but note I included a working spouse
>> making about the same. That would then be 65K combined income. I
>> believe technically that puts them into 'middle income' today?
>>
> Laughingly called "middle" income.
>

Thanks to NAFTA and the "giant sucking sound" and China.

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