Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Living on minimum wage.



Wow, the minimum wage is up to $7.25 an hour. I guess thats good for someones second job, or a college student working after school for some extra cash. For someone to try and live on that is insane. I have a good friend who has a college education and really enjoys her job. She makes $7.50 an hour. I was talking to her last week and she was talking about bills and such and I asked her politely how much do you make? I was appalled. Instead of raising the minimum wage employers should take a look at positions that require education and pay them accordingly. Now if my friend were to move out of this rural area into a major city she could find a job making much better pay, but she enjoys the area and prefers to stay here. I have gotten lucky in finding a decent paying job here with my education, but still make less with a college education, which is required at my job, then the majority of people who do my job around the country. I know I could move and get better pay and such, but I love it here and I love my friends. I cann't leave, so I'll just blog about it and complain some.




Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Is Bush a Psycho, am I?

Go here to take the test and mark what you think Bush's scores would be. Then it'll tell you if you have given Bush a psycho status or not. 40 points are possible and anything over 30 is considered loony. I took it using myself instead of Bush and hit 14. So I guess im not mental. I was expecting to be a little higher, but then again some of the questions are not able to answer.



Anyway here is a list of the top 25 censored news stories of 2006. I read #18's article and found it very intriguing. Here is the link to the paper in PDF format. It is a very interesting read and raises some serious questions about 9-11.