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Originally Posted by KCFaninSEA
Their definition of the American dream may be quite a bit different than mine. If they are content, then that is great. $30,000 - $40,000 per year where I live doesn't get you much. Geography does play into it quite a bit. I just look at a company, for example Campbells soup. It wasn't long ago a can of soup was $.99. While the cost of that can of soup has gone up to $2.69, which is over a 150% increase, the wages for the workers has stayed stagnate or in some cases gone down over the last few years. At some point corporations will put themselves out of business because the earned wages will not be enough to pay for items that are overpriced just to make more profit rather than distribute some of those profits to all workers of the company.
Sorry I did not intend to hijack this mans thread for my rant.
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Guess I'll have to tell my neighbors who work at the plant here in Georgetown they aren't really living the American Dream. I'm sure most of them will feel really bad about how they are living....must be rough to be able to afford nice vacations, boats, and houses that are in very nice neighborhoods.