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Amen on your final statement! I found it to be very enlightening! I am with you, less is more! I do better with my money than those who make more and still have some at the end of the month to carryover! Awesome post! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 5, 2009 at 2:32 PM
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There is precedent for something like what you suggest. Some people decided to live on the average food stamp allowance -- a dollar a day for food -- for awhile to see what it's like for poor people in America.
Let Congress work for minimum wage. Not really, of course. Then for a poor working person to serve in Congress would go from nearly impossible to impossible. They need to be paid well so that a regular person could afford to serve if elected. But I don't think they need anything like what they get.
It's irritating when people who receive government-sponsored health insurance (from lawmakers to teachers) oppose government health insurance for others on grounds that it would cost too much. Hello?!
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on February 5, 2009 at 3:46 AM
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