In San Francisco, the last two yrs. I lived there I was making only $9.50 an hr, w/ no health or other benefits, project to project, layoffs between projects sometimes lasting weeks or months. Temping there before ranged from $8.00-$13.00.
Here in Denver, temping making $10.00 an hr. doing data entry at a mutual fund behemoth during tax season rush/crunch.
An anarchist (?) on the list who has the bad habit of posting on marxmail (weird place for an anarchist to post) also, a few months ago, insinuated we are all rich schmucks, as well. Old timers here know that quite a few of us have had and still are laboring for low wages, or unemployed.
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Michael Pugliese
P.S. >...play the money and investment markets and contribute
> even more to the mess we're in...
After my Dad died in Jan. 2003 of mesothlioma (thanks to the U.S. Air Force) my ste-Mom and Sister set up a trust acct w/ Fidelity Investments for my retirement, w/ the portion in my Dad's will, for me. Has a little over 30K in it now, all municipal bonds and safe, conservative stocks. Had about 34K in it, before I tapped 3K out of it last yr, when California unemployment insurance ran out. I don't expect ever to own a house, but, even being a renter in a small studio or one bedroom apt, in twenty yrs. my retirement days, I expect that whatever is left in the acct. then, won't go that far. My Social Security $ right now, if I retired in 2005, would be a little over $300 a month, a kingly sum.