Re: Divide is too deep for immigration reform

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:27:57 -0500, Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:52:57 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:50:59 -0500, Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:28:19 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:26:20 -0500, Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:54:58 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:08:27 -0500, Gary James <gnjames43@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:36:40 -0800, Sir Frederick
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:19:41 -0500, "Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Divide is too deep for immigration reform
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0313/p17s01-cogn.html

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Slavery has come back into style.
With a "twist" : The process is being
subsidized by the tax payer.

Well put. But what bothers me is that most of these criminals are
paid over minimum wage. That is a puzzler, is it not ? So how
many ways do the wealthy profit from the illegals if they pay them
more than they would have to pay local people ? I think
understanding that is the key to getting the average
American up in arms in favor of "wetback roundup 2". .



Minimum wage in California is apparently $6.15 an hour.
It costs $12 to go to the movies, and $20 to buy a CD
these days.

When people will pay $12 to see a movie, it shows they have more
money than they really need.

http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

Minimum wage in Kansas, above, seems to be
$2.15 an hour.

Various state minimum wages vary, but I doubt many people actually
accept those wages except in places where they allso earn tips. Some
places use to charge employees to work there. The old Playboy Club
comes to mind.

You could do better walking in the
gutters picking up pennies and nickels that people
had dropped and didn't want to bother retrieving.
If I drop a used tissue, I pick it up and put it in a
trashbin, but I don't bother picking up pennies. I
only pick up nickels because I'm such a skinflint.

My wife and I were having our daily stroll yesteday and she reached
down and picked up a penney. It was embarrassing :-)


I'll always pick up a penny if it's back-side-up and I see
a laurel wreath instead of the Lincoln Memorial. I have
both 1938D (D=Denver) nickels, by the way: the Buffalo
and the Jefferson.

Hell, I'd pick up a "wheat" penney, also. Or at least that's what
they called them when I was collecting coins in the 1960s.



Yeah, I guess it is wheat.

After I had posted that, I realized that an Englishman would probably
call them "corn" pennies.



No, when I first came to Amerikkka, a neighbor was an
amateur farmer, and grew corn. I say "amateur" because his
plot was only about the size of two house plots. He rented a
tractor when he had to plow.




If it were a Roman coin, I expect
it would be laurel, and I'd certainly pick up a Roman coin! A
Roman coin in recognizable condition would better be described
as hardy, though, not laurel.



Back then you could go to the bank and get a sack full of circulated
coins. My best find was a three legged buffalo nickle.


That's a damned good find. As I noted, it was listed as
$2,050.



One of my friends in college, 1962-66, when everybody else
was collecting pennies and nickels and dimes, used to buy a roll
of 50-cent pieces every week, take out and replace the ones
he wanted, and reroll the coins and take them back to the bank.

On Friday, I'd buy a bag of nickles for $200 plus 2 rolls. Then I
would replace the nickes I removed from the sack and carry the sack
back Monday.




You had $200 in 1966? Filthy rich ***. I was 21
in my last year of college and working in the evenings
for about $1.25 an hour.




Half-dollars of the old series that ended in 1947, with seated
Liberty rather than Franklin or Kennedy, were still quite common.
One time, he got a whole roll of half-dollars about half of which
were Barber half-dollars as I recall. The pack had probably
been rolled sometime around 1920, I guess, and not looked at
since..
http://gometaldetecting.com/us-halfdollar-barber.htm



http://www.fastcoin.com/1937-D-Three-Legged-Buffalo-Nickel.htm

I don't think I ever heard of that one before. $2,150, eh? I
wish I'd found one of those.


Too bad, but who knows what the idiots of tomorrow will
think about what the idiots of today think is worth collecting.

Mine wasn't a three-legged one. Or at least I don't think
it was. I'll check.

There's a disconnect here since you said you had found
a three-legged buffalo nickel, but the only three-legged
nickels are the 1937D. When I was looking mine over just
now, one of the buffalos looked like it only had three legs
at first, but it was just that the far front leg was mostly
worn away. I have three where the date is completely
worn off. The rest are:


1920
1923
1925
1926
1927
1927S
1928
1928S
1929
1929S
1930
1934
1934D
1935
1935S
1936
1937
1938D

No, no 1937 from the Denver mint at all, with any
number of legs.

None of the ones I have are really low mintage. I see
that a 1938S was minted too, as well as a 1938D. I didn't
remember that. I don't have it. Ther 1938D's are not rare,
just curiosities.

It's odd there are no duplicates in my list above. I must
have had some and traded them away.



Damn ! I was robbed. I think I sold it for about $40. That was
market for one in fine condition in 1966.


They're like black tulips, or confederate money (or what our
current $100 bills will be worth in twenty years maybe,
especially if one of GWB's daughters gets to be president).
The only value in them is due to persistent human folly.



Back then you could get almost all of the lincoln penney's that way
except for the 1914-d, 1909-s bvd and a few others.

I don't know if I have a 1914-D, but probably not or I would have
known and remembered it. There's a list of how many were minted
at:
http://www.coinfacts.com/small_cents/cents_lincoln_wheat_reverse.html

The start page for the above is:
http://www.coinfacts.com/


I had a worked with a guy whose wife had a part time job emptying
parking meters. In the late 1970s she sold her collection for
several thousand dollars and she only had face value in it.


My 1909 VDB was found in change by a (beautiful) kid I worked
with. I gave him 50 cents for it, which was book value at the time.
(I'm too honest ever to get rich). That's just "VDB" not the jackpot
"SVDB".

Coins are beautiful and I loved collecting. It satisfied my
obsessive compulsive streak. But like I said, back in the early
1960s you could pick up most of the 20th century coins out of change.
That way you didn't mind paying a few dollars for the few you missed.
But I would hate to buy every darn coin.


I don't know if I've completely lost my obsessive-compulsive
streak, but it's certainly subsided quite a bit since childhood.
I still keep a list, in Microsoft Word, of all the Classical music
I have on CD, though, cross-referenced when there's more
than one composer on a CD. I almost never look at it other
than to keep it up-to-date. About the only time it's useful
is when a CD has more than one composer on it. Then if
I know I have something but I didn't file it under that
composer, I can use the list to locate it.

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