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To: Lane3 who wrote (5589)	1/10/2017 5:45:25 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 364825

Ah, I understand now. I was merely pointing out to Tim that "low income" might actually not be so low in qualifying for these various social programs, when the families are large. I have two guys working for me during the winter, and both have four kids. But they are younger guys, who came to the USA single and married and started their families here. IIRC, the one guy who has worked for me for many years, came from a family of 9 kids, I think most of whom are now in the USA, and his parents just bought a house here too. The other guy is new for me this year. BTW, the main guy who has been with me for a decade plus, works for me in the winter, and then a food processing plant in the summer. I'm guessing he works something like 2400-2600 hours a year, yet gets unemployment benefits when either of us has down time (me do to weather). State program I think, but it might be Fed. I pay nothing into it. To me it is wrong that labor which by its nature has variable hours should benefit from unemployment. Yet that is how the system works. His wife works around 1000 hours a year for a house cleaning service. Their gross income would be around 40K. Well above my town's average household income. Most his sibling work in food processing plants, some locally others in the Dakotas. One brother runs his own trucking company out of Texas and owns five semis. They are all hard working people...