papau
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Fri Apr-28-06 09:37 AM
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Under Bush, kids do not deliver the paper - now usually adults do |
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http://www.courant.com/business/hc-paperboys.artapr26,0,6837799.story?coll=hc-headlines-businessAdults in cars now make up 81% of the country's newspaper carriers. Under Clinton more than half (57%) of newspaper carriers were under 18, often neighborhood kids, according to the Newspaper Association of America.
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Fri Apr-28-06 09:46 AM
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1. this is the US economy that is bragged about. |
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Fri Apr-28-06 09:47 AM
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2. Those 24% have to make a living somehow when their jobs |
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get outsourced for tax breaks!
It's disgusting.
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Fri Apr-28-06 09:49 AM
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3. 5 years ago those part time Walmart jobs were great for students, |
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retirees, etc. Now HD, WMart, etc. are staffed by angry middle aged men and women who work double shifts to feed their families.
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Fri Apr-28-06 09:56 AM
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and other jobs now done by the illegals...
it seems that there is a general pushdown... outsourced, downsized professional 40-50 year olds staff the big box retail, they push the white young into baristas and waitressing or the trades, (god knows where the American born minorities are getting shoved into --- although I see a lot of grown African American men hawking newspapers on the subway), the illegals are pushing out the teenagers....
the race to the bottom is fun.
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Fri Apr-28-06 10:00 AM
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5. "Adults in cars now make up 81%..." |
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Well, that will change soon enough. Can't see how delivering papers could pay for the gas used.
Soon it will be "Adults on their kids' bikes make up 88%..."
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Fri Apr-28-06 10:10 AM
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6. True - sadly - true n/t |
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