Meathead
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- Jan 6, 2012
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Could you be any more cliché?In 1966 @$1.25 an hour a house cost 8 times your salary.When I went to work as a secretary in the 60s with a high school diploma it was minimum wage.
Here is minimum wage for 1955 - 2010.
Federal Minimum Wage Rates, 1955?2012 | Infoplease.com
If you think minimum wage is 'high on the hog' you have never tried to live on it.
My bad, $1.25 wasn't a nickel higher. It was minimum wage in 1966.
Michelle is a hypocrite.
Now with a minimum wage job it would cost 18 times your salary.
So yeah, you were living high on the hog compared with today's minimum wage employees.
Not to mention that your whining about maids salaries is meaningless. No one is forced to be a maid at the White House since slavery was outlawed.
No one making a dollar and a quarter an hour could buy one that cost that much. My first house was a basement. Just a basement that my husband and I lived in for 5 years. Then we built a house over it doing all the work on both ourselves. He had a decent job, but together we didn't make 20K/year and the banks would only loan you what you made in a year and you paid on it for 20 years. All told, our first house, basement and all cost about $10,000 doing the work ourselves. We sold it for a nice profit. But we hadn't paid for any labor. I can assure you we were not living 'hign on the hog.' We were working our asses off so we could keep our money and not turn most of it over to a landlord.