You should check out what other knowledgeable retail salespeople make sometime. At Sur la Table, you get a grand total of $9.00/hour without benefits. Yet you're still supposed to know as much as Emeril Lagasse about cooking, and handle complex transactions on the computer system.
We're fast approaching a two-class society. This is a holocaust of the middle class people, make no bones about it. It's time to Kerry on and do some Bush wacking.