Interestingly, there are many among the rich who would willingly pay more taxes. There are articles on-line to be found from 2011 onwards. The...
Thank you for providing numbers, Baldeee. That is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Your minimum wage to living costs ratio is fairly...
I keep the thermostat set on 65F largely because I have house plants that will not thrive at temperatures lower than that. Also, the amount of energy...
Interesting that McD's prices are quite similar based on ad info I receive in the mail and my internet runs 67.00 for 120 Gig of data, smart phone...
By the way, what is with my replies getting compressed and italics appearing where I used none? Do we have some kind of glitch in the software?
Actually, my heating costs are low compared to most. Insurance will not cover wood heat as a primary source in a log home and few will even insure...
Here is a chart of the current and proposed minimum wage across the provinces of Canada. It varies from region to region as does the cost of living....
Okay...some relevant input on costs associated with living, cost of housing etc. so far. My propane delivery arrived today, surprising for a Saturday...
The current minimum wage in Yukon is $11.32 per hour which is what many of the retail venues offer. Few offer full time positions with benefits...
There is a huge disparity in the income of people, yet the cost of living is the same for all and we must choose from options within our means. This...
What an interesting dynamic the conversation between Geoff and Fraggle has added to this thread. As for the extreme age difference in the photo...
Every new beginning is also an end, and similar to Yazata, I do not see our species becoming extinct save by cataclysmic event. I do think that we...
Life is cheap to the ecosystem. It all recycles easily enough into fertilizer. It is our sense of self and entitlement that becomes outraged when we...
Day in, day out, season to season, things which occur with such regularity that we become desensitized to them. The sun rising every morning. (The...
These are 'changing times', not that all of history has not been changing times. The greater significance of this particular interval is that our...
Like any other species, we seek to maximize our options for survival by choosing the path of least resistance and so conserve our personal resources...
I think the link to the following article is suited to this discussion. As a species, we are prone to being reactive rather than proactive. What I...
Entertainment stimulates the reward centers in our brain, along with the semi-addictive junk foods and alcohol that generally accompany this...
Yesterday morning we had some spectacular light for photography as the sun was rising and catching the frost on the trees. I was just home from work...
And here I thought by the title that the objection was to persons 'flipping the bird' at inappropriate times and places or perhaps rubbing or waving...
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