'When You Make This Kind Of Money, You Don't Eat Much'

[LiberalElite]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/18/bernadette-feazell_n_4469116.html

Bernadette Feazell, 65, works at a pawn shop in Austin, Texas. She's worked there four years and makes $8 an hour, plus commission.

I work at Mustang Jewelry and Pawn. I've been there four years. I love my job.

What can I tell you? I'm from Texas, I'm kind of a tomboy, and I get to sell compressors and cement machines, and I get to do it in Spanish and English. We stay busy, as you can imagine, in a bad economy. Especially now.

[awoke_in_2003]

1. Dirt poor wages...

from an industry that thrives on people's suffering. Pawn brokers are a notch below used car salesmen, IMO. Well, maybe more than a notch. There is a reason why Dosteosvsky made the "victim" in Crime and Punishment a pawnbroker- they are parasites, feeding off of those who have nowhere else to go.

[jtuck004]

2. And when one reads the BLS reports they come to understand that the largest majority of jobs which

have driven our unemployment rate down over the past 3 or 4 years are jobs like these, having replaced better ones. In a country which depends on 70% of it's economy being consumers, who will now have little to consume with, we are designing our own miserable end. At least for the lifetime of this and perhaps the next generation or so.

It's like we are driving down the hill toward the pond but we can't see disaster coming because the wind feels so good against our faces.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Read that this morning

Welcome to Rick Perry's Texas the unregulated capital of the U.S.