I used to grow tomatoes in my yard to feed the homeless people living in the woods next to my house. Not intentionally, though.
). Even so, it still would be decent income for an electrician from what I see. I have never earned $20/hr working for someone else as an electrician, even if benefits had been included. If I had, I would have been able to pay my bills, maybe even buy a house someday and I probably would never have had the motivation to start my own business again. As it was, I was earning $16/hr with no benefits and little chance of a 40 hour week. That was impossible to maintain unless I moved my family to public housing.I'm sorry if I was unclear - I didn't mean to say that it wasn't worth going to work for $20/hr as an employee, and I thought the separate paragraphs would make that clear. My comment regarding $20/hr was that 30 years ago that was a very good salary, but with today's economy would only just barely get you into the middle class, in some parts of the country and depending on the size of your family (operating costs
That's not necessarily so. There are plenty of folks at the moment who have plenty of drive and desire to work who are on unemployment or in sub-subsistence jobs. I know that personally; up until about 18 months ago I was one of them. I clawed my way back into the work force after my getting laid off, but it took me nearly three years to do it. The able-bodied folks that are content to sit at home on the dole are a tiny minority and don't cost the average taxpayer enough to register.
Sorry, but it is true. The lazy stay-at-home bum is largely a myth perpetuated for political reasons. Most of the genuinely lazy folks I know are wealthy.
The subsidies provided to fossil fuel enterprises dwarf those bestowed upon green energy initiatives by an order of magnitude or two, as if Exxon and their ilk needed them to stay in business. The "free market" does not exist in the real world.
And royalties on the wind, sun energy, etc that are on public property? How about the satellites using the space over my property?
But none of it should be. If the market was left alone, we probably would have had other energy sources years ago.
Anyone seen a solar installation pay off without tax credits since the 1970's?
If I were granted such power I would do two things in quick order-And isn't that what we all really want .......... for everyone to do things how we want them to.
