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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
Minimum wage was $5.00 in 95-97. Stop making ridiculous claims and do some damn research.
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Ridiculous claims? I don't remember what the minimum wage rates were at the time and took what the other poster said was minimum wage and applied some math to it. Is it possible that the reason you called out my post and not their's because you're simply going to attack anything I say without even considering the logic that could be there despite a minor error.
If you had actually done some research yourself as you advised me to, you would have noticed that my estimate on housing prices was off as well. The average home price in Calgary at that time was around $130k-$140k, today it is around $415k-$425k. So yeah my calculations were off, the situation is actually a lot worse then my wrong calculations had made it out to be. Housing prices have more than tripled yet the minimum wage has barely doubled. Sorry for making ridiculous claims that in reality would have been less detrimental to the position of that poster and yourself.
Should I also apologize for not criticizing him for being somewhat hypocritical in saying that raising the minimum wage by $3.80/hour would be outrageous when he himself was making about that much above minimum wage when he doing a job he considers valueless since most anyone can do it. Maybe he wouldn't have been able to overcome the challenges that resulted from his lower class upbringing without that extra help.
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Originally Posted by KevanGuy
Wrong.
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Yes, yet I still managed to be right at the same time.