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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (340871)	6/20/2007 11:20:50 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572899

re: No special effort of parsing is needed. Its a straight up simple fact. No, it's not. If I give you a loaf of bread that costs me $1 or the same loaf of bread that costs me $5 the benefit to you is the same. In the case of health insurance you no longer even get a whole loaf of bread. re: If you look at the bottom 5 or 10 or 15% in previous generations they also had it rough, mostly rougher then the equivalent percentage of Americans today. The bottom 20% used to have choices that they don't have anymore (mostly because of legal and illegal immigration).. Of course some didn't take the choices and ended up in the bottom 5%. The supply/demand was different... and you could make a good living doing really shitty jobs. Or if you had a good connection you could get a union job that wasn't that shitty where you made a decent buck.