""She's on minimum wage, yet the shell tanker drivers on strike are complaining that a salary of 32K (Yep 64,000 dollars) a year isn't enough!""

Just wanted to say that for that profession 64k isn't really enough.  I wouldn't compare it to a counter worker at a gas station anyway.  Aside from the fact that the ones you specified are working for Shell - a reasonable starting wage for a long haul trucker should be about 75k per year.   Those guys do alot of hard work and put up with alot of crap - its not just a cozy ride around in a truck for days.  A gas station clerk gets to go home each night and see thier family - a trucker gets to see thier family once every 2 weeks if he wants to make any money.  Damn near everyone I know is underpaid currently - animosity amongst the workers over wages is the last thing we need.  I say pay both the truckers and the counter workers more!  How does that get funded? - well in the age of greed it would unfortunately mean that the corporate big shot would have to live in a 2 million dollar mansion instead of a 5 million dollar one.  Poor corporate big shot!!!

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