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From: Susie.Lee@f222.n271.z1.fidonet.org (Susie Lee)
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Subject: Re: ADAPT- Baltimore- Day 3
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Date: 16 May 91 19:38:16 GMT
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GT> >GT> fixed. How easy is it for folks to hire attendants at
GT> >GT> minimum wage? At least ADAPT is saying SOMETHING. I
GT> >How easy is it for anyone (anywhere in the country,
GT> >anymore) to try and make some kind of living, even in the
GT> >poorest hovel, on mimimum wages? Mimimum wages,
GT> True, very true. I would love to pay my attendants what
GT> thay are worth (considerably more than minimum wage!) but
GT> my SSI check barely covers My living expenses, let alone

And you and I both can thank your lucky stars that you have attendants
willing to go it on Mimimum wages, possibly with the humane understanding
that it *is* all and the best you can do. Those folks are getting to be a
rare and threatened-with-extinction breed. I have a pair of hearing-ear
critters to help me with some of my poor-hearing handicap, and you know dogs
work at the minimal-est wages, just chow and love! So I guess I'm pretty
well off, considering. I wish I could get someone else to do my forgetting
and mistake-making though! (heh-heh! :)

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