06-30-2008, 04:22 AM
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Originally posted by JWFITZ
...I hope you don't take this as a personal attack, because it is not, but let me suggest that if you're serious about rebuilding community, 12 dollars an hour is a starvation wage....
]That was a personal attack on about 80% of the Employers here in Hawaii [
]Did you know there are State and Government workers that only make $12.00 dollars an hour?
I know families that get by on less than that per hour... thus you have so many people in Hawaii working two jobs or more just to keep a roof over there head.
Living in Puna is relatively cheap compared to say.... Oahu.
The wages are the same.... but the housing costs are much higher.
Fitz... wheres your book that you need to write? [8D]
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It is the way... the way it is.