[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by tater

No, we have a huge illegal problem. HUGE. I just don't hire them if I can possibly avoid it. Michael is originally from NJ. He hires assistants, but never illegals. I pay more, but I'm not a hypocrite.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do. Reroofed, for example. If I picked a roofer without illegals... it would still be raining INSIDE my house. Nothing I could do, it was impossible.

Bottom line is that I would be interested to see the path $1000 takes in the hands of people at the average income for each tax quintile.

BTW, sorta OT, I was listening to a freakanomics podcast today, and they had an interesting study mentioned. They polled people and asked if they could get $2000 in 30 days if they needed to. By any means, borrowing from family, from savings, using a credit card, etc. They picked 2k because that's a typical "emergency" expense (new tranny for car, bonded plumbing fix, need to fly at no notice for sickness or death, etc). Over 50% can't. Only 25% between 100-150k a year income said they could afford that. Oddly, they ended up talking about the lottery, and it turns out that the average lottery player spends... $1000 per year on the lottery.

Think about THAT.

Good point (regarding the lottery) I'll bet these people have more than enough money for cable tv and a 50 inch tv. I think people have their personal ,economic priorities screwed up. People just aren't as responsible as they used to be.