This is Kansas.

25k a year is pretty average for the average non union person.
As for housing costs, averages are always exaggerated compared to reality. 120 - 150k seems to be the average in most places. Personally I sit on an acre in a split level @ 70k. I pay $150 mo. for car and around 150 a week on food.
Statistics are sales propaganda and NEVER reflect anything close to reality. Who doesnt know that? There are other equally poor uses of statistics and you can find it anywhere. Usually has something to do with jogging numbers, cooking books and reports and anything else that NEEDS an excuse for funding/action/acquisition/liquidation .

I could see a lot of construction/ mfg./ warehouse/ fishing/delivery sort of physical jobs for unskilled labor leaving town for friendlier counties.

I dunno, when your overhead surges, so do your prices. I could see the price of an oil change going up several bucks as well as the price of a meal. Businesses dont lose money, consumers do.
I actually had pictured mfg./fishing/distribution jobs moving out of town. Aircraft will remain unaffected as it is infected by union anyway.

Depends on where you live. $15 hr around here is enough to pay mortgage, car payment and raise a family. But, then, the cost of living is one of the lowest here.
I can see this sucking some jobs out of Seattle into surrounding areas w/o the minimum wage law. It could be a good thing for other than intended reasons.

War is like that. No point in pointing it out as being not typical or being particularly hard on the military about it. People die in war; this has been proven throughout the ages. Non military personnel get in the way all the time. Call it accidental or call it Darwin. It just is. Accept it.

Well.....fuck the law!

In this case the prosecutor would be more likely to cater to the government; if nothing else to help them save face. Kerrys writers have been helping him strap on some testicles lately; so naturally this and since Omama has been embarrassed, they would HAVE to lay it on as heavy as possible. Remember the government IS going to show how RIGHTEOUS they are in regards to the LAW, even if the objective is payback. If what the people thought really mattered, there would be no Democrat or Republican party, no one with any brains would want them running anyones business.

acceptance.

This concept is not entirely new, in fact it is very old. Is this not what we have Rabbis for?
This software probably has it all arbitrarily wrong. Maybe not, was this written by a Rabbi? Many of them are off too. This has been a point of some discussion over the years, but the calendar remains, perhaps not the seconds in all cases, but it is not unheard of.
Now there is a secular calendar having a crack at it, good luck with that, let me know how it all turns out. Starting with the solstice is going to be a popular FAIL and the wrong foot to get off on. The REAL challenge is to straighten out the Hebrew Calendar, sync it with the weather service and dept. of agriculture to predict when a 13 month (leap month) should fall.

Leave the gun equalization to Col. Colt.
Think of cabbage as humanitys great equalizer. It is on every continent, every culture eats it. Agitating people makes them gassy.
Conduct yourself peacefully in the world or smell the consequences.

Gunsmithing really needs to go back to the machine shop realm. Every material has a purpose. Plastic is good for annoying people. I think printers could actually help spud guns. Steel is for when you need a tool.

I suggested to Cox that they eat sh*t; as the last thing I said to their billing dept about 8 years ago.
Disconnected my cable AND internet from them and havent looked back since.
Gigabit or not, Id use sneakernet before I EVER use COX again.

Everywhere Ive ever seen socialism, it is in undesirable living conditions, under complete assholes. That would indicate a major FAIL for all those splitting red hairs out there... nuff said.

I personally believe that a sharper blade reduces shock that might rob the brain of a last few moments of consciousness upon separation.
If it is the last thing on earth people might want to verify; the burning question of: Do these pants make my ass look fat could be a precious priceless boon.
I recall tales of a guillotined head being held aloft with the eyes looking about conscious-like before they faded. Perhaps a head could be turned around to see its spurting, wiggly carcass for a bit of closure pre-doom. Closure is important when there is death, why not extend it to the executed? Perhaps this is the kindest method of all.

Suddenly, I picture spud guns firing D-cells.