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I'm sorry that your skills only let you earn $12 an hour. 
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Damn, kick to the nuts! You're in programming or something, right? (correct me if I'm wrong, as this is my assumption.) Well I'm the guy the customers get transfered to when they need help troubleshooting a program that crashed, usually due to faulty coding...
But I digress -- at least I have an OFFICE of my own, so there!
At any rate, am I NOT paying considerably more for even simple services like haircuts and oil changes than I was even a few years ago? Am I NOT seeing my dollar buy me less at the grocery store, restaurant, and pump? Don't get me wrong -- I'm not blaming this fully on economic/government policies (the recent hurricanes have done some pretty thorough ass-kicking.) But the fact remains, prices for the necessities -- food, energy, services -- have gone up noticeably. My spending habits haven't changed, my pay has stayed the same, but I am most definately having more trouble saving than I was before.
http://today.reuters.com/business/ne...S/Mike%20Blake