http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/04/02/taking-care-of-the-lucky-duckies/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/04/02/taking-care-of-the-lucky-duckies/comment-page-1/#comment-2294 Benson Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:26:23 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=872#comment-2294 <em>A worker making $5.15 per hour in a full-time job, working every single week of the year, makes about $10,000 each year. And that's without paying for health care, which doesn't often come standard with low-wage jobs.</em> Don't be silly. People making that little don't have to pay for health care -- they can't afford to get sick! Think of the savings! Talk about Lucky Duckies... (I can't help but think of a segment Michael Moore did on his old TV show about NAFTA..."Isn't 30 cents an hour [or whatever the place was actually paying the Mexican workers] a bit low?" "Well, you have to remember, they don't have the same expenses we do...health care, air conditioning, car payments...") A worker making $5.15 per hour in a full-time job, working every single week of the year, makes about $10,000 each year. And that’s without paying for health care, which doesn’t often come standard with low-wage jobs.
Don’t be silly. People making that little don’t have to pay for health care — they can’t afford to get sick! Think of the savings! Talk about Lucky Duckies…
(I can’t help but think of a segment Michael Moore did on his old TV show about NAFTA…”Isn’t 30 cents an hour [or whatever the place was actually paying the Mexican workers] a bit low?” “Well, you have to remember, they don’t have the same expenses we do…health care, air conditioning, car payments…”)

]]> http://www.thetalentshow.org/2004/04/02/taking-care-of-the-lucky-duckies/comment-page-1/#comment-2293 JoeW Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:08:47 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/wp/?p=872#comment-2293 Being from Oklahoma, I know exactly what the federal minimum wage is, because that's what I've been paied all my life. Being from Oklahoma, I know exactly what the federal minimum wage is, because that’s what I’ve been paied all my life.

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