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Originally Posted by jimnaseum
Tracy Darling, fly over to Germany for a couple weeks (if you can afford it) The Seniors there get two free weeks in Health Spas. The minimum wage is like twenty bucks an hour or something.
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In the last 10 years, according to a survey by the Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation, the percentage of low-income earners in Germany has increased from 15 to 22 %. That is around 6.5 millions of employees. That puts Germany on a top rank within Europe.
That unpleasant development, according to some experts, is fostered by the German legislation?s dropping of the compulsory minimum wage.
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A minimum wage is supposed to guarantee employees a secure livelihood. This would mean that a full time worker no longer needs compensative government support, but instead can live on their earned money. What is being discussed is a minimum 1 hour?s wage of 5.00 to 8.00 Euros.
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That's $7 - $11.50USD, but currently there is no required minimum wage there. Thanks for playing. Try again.
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Originally Posted by jimnaseum
During WWII, we spent ONE THIRD of our gross national product on the development of the Atom Bomb. ONE THIRD! While at War!
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More like 1/10. It cost $2 billion, or $22 billion in today's dollars. Not all that much to bring an early end to WWII and save the lives of about 1 million Americans that would have died in an invasion of Japan than never had to happen. I see I'm going to have to double check all your facts for you.
How much did Germany's genocide of the Jews cost? Hmmm, maybe not that much since the Germans are efficient engineers and reused some body parts of the Jews for manufacturing of other goods. Sorry, but you did bring up Germany and WWII lol.
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Originally Posted by jimnaseum
What are we going to have to pay back from the Bush years? How about that trillion we still owe China so we wouldn't have to raise taxes!
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Awww, you didn't keep BO's one month $2.7 trillion spending spree in mind as you talked about Bush's overspending. Remember that's 2.5 times what Bush & congress overspent during his 8 years. See, now we're all still wondering how the money will be flowing back to hard working Americans since BO is doing so much WORSE than Bush.