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To: Yaacov who wrote (1692)	6/8/2001 4:04:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: Gus, but your on Sadam Husseins payroll! And on Yassir Arafat's! YOu can't accept employment from CIA? WHY NOT?? I'll just make it like millions of hard-working Americans... slumming it on two jobs! Like Robert Hanssen who had to work both for the FBI AND the KGB; like Jonathan Pollard who worked for Naval Intelligence AND Mossad; like Trofimov... like... you name him/her! Statement by Congressman David E. Bonior (D-MI) Minimum Wage Workers Deserve a Roof Over Their Heads September 9, 1999 We hear a lot about prosperity these days. All the new Internet millionaires. The billion dollar mergers. The booming stock market. Record home sales... But if you take a closer look, unfortunately, millions of Americans are working harder than ever just to make ends meet, especially people working for the minimum wage. For millions of families in our country, the American dream is "Out of Reach." Thanks to Sheila Crowley, Cushing Dolbeare and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, we now have data that sheds new light on the challenges we face. In order to meet the generally accepted standard for affordable housing... that is, to keep housing costs to 30 percent of a family's income... a mother in Michigan working at the minimum wage would have to put in 87 hours a week. 87 hours a week! [...] What are they working on? A lop-sided, trillion-dollar tax cut that will explode the debt and put Social Security and Medicare at risk. They know this tax bill will never become law, but they're too busy playing politics to care. Millions of Americans are working two jobs, just to put a roof over their heads, and the leadership of the House is playing politics. [snip] davidbonior.house.gov