What's Steve's job suppose to be? A bank executive? :)
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lisamj1973 — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 06:44 AM)
My boss at my old not so big company supported a wife and 6 kids on one paycheck in the Washington DC which is one of the most expensive areas in the country so yeah I'd think one guy with a big exec job in the midwest could support a wife and lots of kids in 1989. He even took them all to Alaska 2 years ago, on a Caribbean cruise last Christmas, and to Florida for a week in Disney last month and I'm pretty sure they have a decent house in the VA suburbs. Nice man too like Gil.
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stevenackerman69 — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 06:40 PM)
They don't say what kind of job he does. I guess he works for some firm that tries to get clients in so they can do business with them. He has been there 8 years (the backbone of the operation) but he isn't on top as partner. Still, he makes enough so he can support three kids (he doesn't get the fourth one until the end when he got promoted).
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moviemarathoneverynight — 12 years ago(January 10, 2014 02:19 AM)
Larry: Oh, come on, if I called you up to tell you, "Hey Dad, I'm the new assistant sub-vice president of pencil sharpening at some crappy little company," you're telling me you'd think that was great? I am better than that!I am not Gil!
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rattlesnake_suitcase — 11 years ago(September 08, 2014 05:58 PM)
His house was really big, and not a cookie-cutter suburb house either. I mean, it was gorgeous and he had waterfront property. he must have been balling, even while referring to it as a "crappy" job. I mean, cowboy dan probably doesn't come cheap either as he was coveted by nearly every 9 year old in the state. Dazzled or not, Dave was paying Gil very fairly with that estate on the lake.
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al666940 — 11 years ago(January 16, 2015 09:12 PM)
Not for less than $100,000 in any place you would like to live in (I'm pretty sure you can get big foreclosed houses for under 10K in Detroit these days).
Dude was making at least 70K, and that was back in the 80's. Today you simply cannot raise 4 kids on less than 100K unless you live like a Menonite (no tv, internet, fresh daily underwear, etc) or as a cheap bastard (living off coupons and buying clothes/toys at thrift stores) and live in say Louisiana or Texas or someplace dirt cheap (good luck getting a 100K job there).
I lived in Richmond BC recently and could barely scrape by with +70K raising ONE kid and a housewife (all our money goes in rent and groceries, we cannot even afford clothes). Would never be able to afford more kids that way.
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HOKfilms — 10 years ago(January 24, 2016 07:41 PM)
You couldnt now, but back then sure.
Inflation has robbed us of our wealth.
Im 35. My parents came here with less and accomplished more. The value of the dollar has dropped 95% in the last 100 years thanks to the federal reserve, central banking etc. I make more an hour than my dad ever did and I can barely afford my own apartment. He bought two houses.
this is not normal.. it is avoidable, but the average joe has no idea how monetary policy works or where money comes from. They think inflation is normal.
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