Not to belittle what your mother achieved, I was just wondering if maybe she had an alternative source of money (insurance from your fathers death, family members helping out,loans, ect..) This is why I ask this: (Yes I'm using current data, but inflation should keep them in a similar ratio)
An average poor US household income = $24,000
An average private school cost/year = $9000 - $14,000 (lets average this out to $11.5k)
That would leave $12,500 for rent/mortgage, food, clothing, car, unexpected purchases (eg. A new oven) and other living expenses.
Now I consider myself a somewhat frugal person,and I don't think I could raise a family on $1041 per month.
I just want to point out that Canada's population density is areound 3.3 while the U.S.A's density is around 29.1. So why is there more broadband penetration in Canada?
I never had either one of them die on me, and I wasn't trying to stop them from charging blindly ahead either. Now the resistance fighters heroically died in large numbers:)
I just want to remind you that the NDP together with the PQ (similar political ideas) have more then enough seats to make a liberal bill pass, even if all the tories try and vote it down. So if the liberal party scratches the NDP/PQ's backs, then they will get some support on other bills.
I just want to point out one itsy bitsy thing. You know all those tv shows you like to watch...well they don't magically pop into existence. Those funny little 30 second things that are shown every 7 or so minutes, are the real reason those shows are on tv.
Nobody watches commercials != more tv shows being made.
Commercials + captive audience = $ for networks ->
buy tv shows from production companies ->
$ to make more episodes ->
captive audience = $...
Commercials
The term "Arab" only describes people living in the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen and UAE), if even that. Its a term originally used by the European colonizers of that area during the 19th century up to WWI. It worked for them because they hadn't totally figured out where the political lines were to be drawn yet. It doesn't work now, if your talking about Iranian, Syrian or any number of other Middle Eastern peoples. Its like if you were talking about Italian people and you said "Mediterranean people", which is correct in the broad sense but it could mean a person from any number of countries on the Mediterranean.
I'm not trying to be overly PC here, its just as much about semantics. I mean I don't want to be called an American (I'm Canadian) and conversely Americans don't want to be called Canadian.
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Not to belittle what your mother achieved, I was just wondering if maybe she had an alternative source of money (insurance from your fathers death, family members helping out,loans, ect..) This is why I ask this: (Yes I'm using current data, but inflation should keep them in a similar ratio) An average poor US household income = $24,000 An average private school cost/year = $9000 - $14,000 (lets average this out to $11.5k) That would leave $12,500 for rent/mortgage, food, clothing, car, unexpected purchases (eg. A new oven) and other living expenses. Now I consider myself a somewhat frugal person,and I don't think I could raise a family on $1041 per month.
I just want to point out that Canada's population density is areound 3.3 while the U.S.A's density is around 29.1. So why is there more broadband penetration in Canada?
I never had either one of them die on me, and I wasn't trying to stop them from charging blindly ahead either. Now the resistance fighters heroically died in large numbers :)
I just want to remind you that the NDP together with the PQ (similar political ideas) have more then enough seats to make a liberal bill pass, even if all the tories try and vote it down. So if the liberal party scratches the NDP/PQ's backs, then they will get some support on other bills.
I just want to point out one itsy bitsy thing. You know all those tv shows you like to watch...well they don't magically pop into existence. Those funny little 30 second things that are shown every 7 or so minutes, are the real reason those shows are on tv. Nobody watches commercials != more tv shows being made. Commercials + captive audience = $ for networks -> buy tv shows from production companies -> $ to make more episodes -> captive audience = $ ...
Commercials
The term "Arab" only describes people living in the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen and UAE), if even that. Its a term originally used by the European colonizers of that area during the 19th century up to WWI. It worked for them because they hadn't totally figured out where the political lines were to be drawn yet. It doesn't work now, if your talking about Iranian, Syrian or any number of other Middle Eastern peoples. Its like if you were talking about Italian people and you said "Mediterranean people", which is correct in the broad sense but it could mean a person from any number of countries on the Mediterranean. I'm not trying to be overly PC here, its just as much about semantics. I mean I don't want to be called an American (I'm Canadian) and conversely Americans don't want to be called Canadian.