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To: TimF who wrote (46621)	5/11/2001 6:26:04 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

*OT* In affluent suburbs people with jobs likes these tend to work for above minimum wage. People in less affluent areas working jobs like this may be doing so for minimum wage. In affluent suburbs even McDonalds often can't pay only minimum wage. Here in NC (highest Hispanic growth rate in the US over the past 10 years), most of the "landscaping and housemaid" jobs are not filled with US citizens...most of our uneducated citizens long ago figured out how to live off the dole and would not stoop to doing such work. This reminds me of Gastarbeiters (guest workers) in Germany when I lived there in 72-73. German citizens would not do manual labor and jobs went begging resulting in many Turks, Spaniards, Italians, etc taking them and sending their paychecks home. Now they too have figured out how to live off the German social system! For all who want to guarantee everyone a "decent living wage" independent of their productive output, I suggest you study Marx and Lenin and see what ultimate socialism did for the Soviet Union. Socialism sounds great in theory but look at Europe vs the US over the past 20 years and tell me which system is working.