LPN's around hear make about $15/hr. RN's make about $25. CDQ's way off the mark. I go to chruch with an RN floor supervisor at the local hospital. She only makes about $35/hr. This is a 9 story hospital, not a small one either.
Mark my words CDQ. Obamacare is going to be a failure when it is fully implemented. Now the Senate is looking at dropping the tax on medical equipment, because everyone said they would just pass on the costs to the consumers. Hmm. The consumer always pay EVERY tax leved. Corporations pass on the cost. Government is a parasite on the capitalist system. Even in Soviet Russia, the one acre farm plots each farm worker received to grow their own vegetables produced 1/4 of their entire output of food, which they were allowed to sell on the open market. The Soviet Union had a huge underground economy.
I am seeing a huge increase in the underground economy now. Lots of flea markets, gun shows. People are taking gold and silver as payment, making trades on stuff. Lots of people laid off and collecting unemployment benefits are doing work on the "side" getting paid cash or barter.
My SIL barters all the time. He does work for people, and traded work for an enclosed trailer, a riding lawn mower, chickens, some goats. He does this all the time to keep from paying so much in taxes. He is a general contractor.
Some people are doing yard work, etc, and asking only for cash.
Taxes are going up in January. Obamacare taxes start taking place. FICA tax will increase. Stuff like surgical gloves, hypo needles, etc will have a 3.8% tax to be levied on them. Also, the GOP is caving on the tax increases WITHOUT getting any cuts in the budget. Inflation is really running about 10%. The economy by the second quarter next year will go back in recession. Obama WANTS THE RICH CAPITALIST, CHRISTIAN, COLONIAL (he thinks) Americans to PAY what he thinks is FAIR. He doesn't care what will work, has worked, and does work from the past. His VIEW of history is not from the typical American viewpoint. His is foreign to what once was mainstream America.
America will loose it's place in the world because of him. Yes Bush started the excessive spending, but Obama is WORSE, and has no clue as to what will REALLY work to bring America back.