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To: deeno who wrote (39062)	8/25/2005 6:24:31 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Well I am close enough to oakland and I am certain those 11K people didn't have jobs. There are plentiful stories of hundreds of people applying for ONE barrista job at Starbucks here, so I don't think its a stretch at all.

To: deeno who wrote (39062)	8/25/2005 6:24:44 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

No deenie - I've been in Oakland many times, San Francisco and Berkeley too. I'm very familiar with it. I used to live in the Bay area. All those guys you mentioned ALREADY make what they would at WaLMart. Maybe a very few geographic folks looking, but not 11k - no way! You may be unaware of them, but there are perhaps 12 million long term unemployed that don't show up in the jobless figures. epinet.org Educate yourself.