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To: bigtoona

$4 an hour in 1983 money isn’t too shabby.


21 posted on 02/26/2016 8:23:16 PM PST by proust (Texans for Trump! The Art Of The Comeback!)
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To: proust

I was crawling under houses installing alarms systems for that price.


26 posted on 02/26/2016 8:26:40 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: proust
"$4 an hour in 1983 money isn’t too shabby."If I recall correctly, minimum wage was around $3.60 back then.
72 posted on 02/26/2016 10:11:14 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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I have a co worker who made $3.50/hour in the late 80’s/early 90’s while living in Syracuse, NY working in a safe factory. And that was a lousy union shop as he pointed out.


73 posted on 02/26/2016 10:15:43 PM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertisers)
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To: proust

More than I made in the army as a senior NCO.


79 posted on 02/27/2016 2:28:46 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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