On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 11:31:18 -0700, Lucha Libre! > wrote:

> 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.

We can agree on that point.

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sf