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"VtSkier" wrote in message ... pigo wrote: "VtSkier" wrote in message ... (snip) I REALLY hate walking down the street in Madrid and seeing a MacDonalds. I very much prefer the sidewalk cafe where I can get my *vino tinta* and have the gypsies try to beg money off me "for the baby, no?" Yeah. Me too. For that first few weeks anyway. But then, at some point comes that time that you only have 1/2 hour, or you have to get to work, or you just got home, and that MacDonalds looks pretty ****in' good. After you've been there a few weeks, you ought to know how and where to get "fast food" that is indigenous. I figured it out in several days. Street vendors are even faster than MickyD's. Better food too. Sometimes. And sometimes I go to MD's |
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ant wrote:
Seems odd to me. Our minimum wage is a living wage, on which you can afford a mortgage and a car and all those other things. Produce and meat and those things cost the same in Oz for a kilo, as it costs for a pound here. there's 2.2 pounds per kilo. I always expected that food would be cheaper here as it's a much larger market, but it's not. One thing you do have in the US is a lot of people who earn very very high incomes. We have a few, but not many. However the majority make a comfortable living (own their own house, widescreen TVs, 2 cars etc etc), and the lowest paid earn enough to live a "normal" life. I wonder if those high incomes skew the national figures for the US. This is the more important point. The US does have more income inequality than most countries, and many people in the lower tiers work quite hard just to get by. But the government and political culture don't seem interested in changing this. The attitude seems to be, it's all their fault. There's a big issue for the Democrats here, but they're just too stupid and incompetent to exploit it. Not to mention elites themselves. Instead of tackling economic issues, they spend their time on gay marriage, affirmative action, and abortion. Dave |
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Harry Weiner wrote:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:30:10 -0800, "Scott Abraham" wrote this crap: But then again, anyone who stalks in real life, who manipulates fellow veterans to do violence at the risk of their health and sanity, who defames and lies, who doesn't even have the balls to identify himself or spew his **** in person, is obviously clueless anyway. You calling yourself a veteran? You've admitted that you've never been in the military. He's told so many lies even HE can't keep them straight anymore. Or maybe it's just one of his alternate personalities speaking. |
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