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Topic: INTRODUCTIONS

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Heidi T.	INTRODUCTIONS July 28, 2006 3:24 PM Why did you join this group? Please introduce yourself and briefly share your story here. If you would like to go into more detail, please start your own thread after you have introduced yourself! Everybody! [ send green star]
CheWorks L.	July 28, 2006 4:23 PM I think minimum wage is disgusting. I have long been a proponent of the living wage. This is when people must be paid what is needed to amintain a minimal lifestyle without having to be an eternal member of the working poor. In Montreal, this si at about 14$ an hour, and this is a reasonably cheap city to live in. Fortunately, some employers have recognised this and implement the policy whenever they can. The problem is that govt. should get involved and frce big corp. to do the same. This is all part of maintaining sustainable growth. [ send green star]
Mohammed H.	July 28, 2006 4:36 PM thanks Hiedi for invting me to be here [ send green star]
James M.	July 28, 2006 4:40 PM Yippee, hello all. I'm having fun debating global warming. But I'm here also. Spent a good part of my life trying to survive on minimum wage (South dakota) [ send green star]
The Real Donna F.	Hi Heidi! July 28, 2006 4:41 PM Minimum wage sucks. It's a joke, especially when rent is so fricking high everywhere. [ send green star]
James M.	July 28, 2006 4:46 PM The biggest reason I'm doing well now (well, not "wealthy) is my overtime. I made as much in overtime last year as I did on hourly. [ send green star]
anonymous	Hiya Heidi! July 28, 2006 5:25 PM I'm fortunate that my family doesn't live on minimum wage. But early in my marriage, when my husband and I both worked, we still qualified for food stamps with 2 paychecks, but we never applied. Instead, we lived on a very tight budget. And when I stopped working, 6 and 1/2 years later, after giving birth, we still qualified for the WIC program, and applied, for I was nursing the babies. I've been married 23 years, to the same man. I have worked with children, doing small projects for the homeless and food programs. [report anonymous abuse]
Larry S.	July 28, 2006 6:07 PM Thanks for the invite Heidi! This group is very timely and important. Minimum and low wages are part and parcel of corporate capitalism, and I dream of the day when we can transform this evil system (which is destroying people's lives and the planet) into a compassionate green cooperative system...not communism, not socialism, but COOPERATIVISM. There are many local actions we can take to change the existing system now, to increase the min. wage..like legislative actions (like Chicago just did), creating local currencies, etc. I hope our group can contribute lots to this struggle. I'll come back with a more personal take on the topic soon...personal experience with min. wage, my work with local currency, my comitment to simple living, etc. Thanks again! ~Peace, Larry [ send green star]
Heidi T.	July 28, 2006 6:14 PM I look forward to everyone's contributions! Please submit articles and ideas! If anyone has an initiative that they would like to take, please contact me. Please spread the news about this group! [ send green star]
MonaLissa X.	July 29, 2006 5:38 AM for the invite Heidi. Minimum wage sucks. It's fine for highschool students getting their first job at Wac Arnold's when they're still living at home, and Mom & Dad are still responsible for their welfare, but for anybody living on thier own, minimum wage is a far cry from a living wage, it's not even a minimum living wage. [ send green star]
Warren M.	July 30, 2006 8:11 PM As someone who has, at times, attempted to liove on the minimum wage, let me assure you that it CANNOT be done. [ send green star]
CallCongress W.	July 31, 2006 4:09 PM Thanks Heidi for the invitey. I haven't worked for minimum wage for many years, but I have rarely worked above the living wage. Some of that is a result of my own poor financial planning but as has been mentioned, there are so many financial traps set for people who believe in the basic decency of people. Credit card and loan terms are heavily tilted against the lower middle class and the poor, and then there's the health insurance debacle. [ send green star]
Purple J.	. August 03, 2006 7:43 AM Thank youfor the inivte, looks like a great group. [ send green star]
Suzanne M.	Hello August 04, 2006 8:21 AM Thanks for inviting me to the group Heidi; sorry I have been so busy lately that it is only now I was able to check out your group and jump in. Although I'm not currently on minimum wage, I've been there more than once. This time last year I collected Social Assistance, and many times in the past things have been close to the bone. I remember one winter living on home-made bread (because I could afford flour, but not store-bought bread) and sprouting my own sprouts, because I was too broke to buy veggies. Yes, and lentil/rice burgers. Yum! That was when I went back to Ottawa U. and was living on Laurier. When my roomie moved into the 1 bedrm place with me, she worked at Mrs. Field's cookies and would bring cookies home that were day-old. Between that and popcorn, it pretty much summed up some nasty eating habits for a month or so. Thanks for launching this group Heidi. If there's anything I can do to help let me know (if you need graphics, art, etc). Cheers & talk soon. Suzanne. [ send green star]
LuAnn B.	August 04, 2006 6:40 PM For a couple months we lived (me, DH and two young children) in a motel while I worked as a waitress at a Waffle House. My MIL tried to get custody of the boys because of this. (She failed.) I cannot believe that Congress voted down the minimum wage raise today (?) while the raises they have voted themselves since the turn of the century total at least TWICE the annual pay for someone living on minimun wage! [ send green star]
CallCongress W.	August 06, 2006 2:07 PM LuAnn, it was voted down because Republicans attached a massive estate tax cut for the wealthiest Americans onto it. at which point the bill deserved a No vote. We need a minimum wage increase but not via class war blackmail. [ send green star]
Lil Darlin W.	August 15, 2006 10:02 PM Hello I'm Lisa and I have been on both ends of the spectrum income wise. Minimum wage is an american atrocity. Our government needs to recognize that "families" cannot live on $7.63 an hour and pay $900.00 rent. Welfare reform is great....all for it too...but until minimum wage is increased the welfare rolls are going to continue to grow. [ send green star]
Crokus L.	August 16, 2006 12:48 AM Hello everyone... I am Crokus, and I live in Canada's Territories... Where the climate is hostile, the rent very expensive, and store bought food a "luzury." Che has invited me here. He knows much about my position, and this invite was right on for me. I presently am living on a campground, for I just lost everything to an event that occured in my life, in which I had not control at all. I, indeed, am of the thick (well I think that it's thin if we are to talk about bread) slice of society that belongs to the poor class... (If I may say.) I was involved with the anti-poverty co-alition until recently. -I couldn't go anymore, for my own situation takes the whole of my time and energy at the moment. Poverty hides behind many masks, and I would love to see them all falling, for they will, the day when there will be no more prejudices against it. Together for a better future, as opposed as appart for an already known past. The only real richessenes is the one of the heart. Freedom, Peace, Love, Respect, Courage, Humbleness, Integrity, Consistency and Unity worth more than anything else. Much Love. [ send green star]
Laurie N.	Hello August 16, 2006 4:43 AM I joined this group because Che sent me an invite, and I clicked the check it out link....LOL I've been on minimum wages almost all of my life. I've had a few jobs that paid more, but not enough to survive on. I found an old check stub from the late 70's...My take home pay never changed, go figure. [ send green star]
Jennifer M.	Intro August 16, 2006 4:57 AM Thanks for the invite Che! Been there, Done that and Know things need to change. Minimum Wage is an outrage to human standards of living in many places in the world. It is a definite necessity to bring it up to a level of respect and usefullness! Hope to help make a difference! [ send green star]
Roland J.	Hello Everyone August 16, 2006 5:16 AM Hello Everyone; Hi Heidi; Hi Che--thanks for the invitation. This is my kind of group/cause. Hope to be as active as possible. Roland J. [ send green star]
Heidi T.	August 16, 2006 2:17 PM Thanks Che for inviting all these fine people! Let's see if we can come up with some initiatives to do something about this! [ send green star]
Davidson D.	November 06, 2006 1:35 PM Hello everyone in here!, This is the first time I'll ever got the time to heed this invitation from my dear,wonderful and ammiable friend Heidi. I've been very eager to join b4 now but since I was very busy, it makes it difficult any time I tried;lots of things to do. So m joining this group cos I know it's gona be interesting in here. I know the stuff Heidi is made up of and God can testify to this and some of us here that have known her for her lovely posts in this ntwrk. So, m glad to be here. How about you?... enjoy then! Bless you Heidi. Dan. [ send green star]