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What Could You Do With 300K?

In accepting his party's nomination, John McCain said "I know some of *you* have been left behind in the changing economy." The McCains don't live like we do. In fact, at the same convention Cindy's outfit cost roughly $300,000. We will look into other ways that same $300,000 could have been spent.

Friday, September 5, 2008

22 Years of Work

$300,000 is equivalent to 45,801 hours worth of work at the current minimum wage (or 1,145 weeks at 40hrs per week. That’s 22 years of working at minimum wage)
Posted by aaron at 7:19 AM

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