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Best of Waukee Craigslist, Sept. 18 Edition

You can't make this stuff up. Here's the latest and greatest from Craigslist/Waukee.

Congratulations! You made it out of bed already today. Good job! (Everyone needs a little positive reinforcement, don't you think?) But seriously, that's a huge feat. Way to go, you!

Anyway, here's a little something to get you through the day - the best and brightest of Waukee/Des Moines Craigslist listings. Read these then go out there and face that cruel world!

How about we start with a little haiku?

optimistic

who will live
another twenty years?
my kitten and me

I always wanted to be the red one.

Power Ranger Toys For Sale - $7

I have always been in awe of someone who could keep something in its original box while it increases in value. Now hat's patience.

Anyone got an extra 10 grand?

$10,000

It's just $10,000. He's not asking for a kidney. He just wants to move out of his brother's house.

Rosebud!

Flexible Flyer vintage sled - $35

Citizen Kane was a great movie...about a sled.

It's not you, it's me, Waukee.

WAUKEE GEAR!!! - $15

Seriously, what do you do when you break up with one city for another?

High maintenance pony seeks new home.

Pony for Free

Handsome 17 year-old male seeks new love. Must be wiling to hang out in the dirt and admininster meds.

A missed connection over barbecue.

Jethros - w4m - 28

You were eating lunch on Thursday..you are so cute, and I would love to get to know you! 28/f/ and I have my life together..you look like you would be the same. Tell me about yourself, and send a picture...I cant wait to talk to you! :)

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Julia Ziesman June 12, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Could one of the reasons for the population loss in rural Iowa be the lack of decent paying jobs?Read More There are large portions of rural Iowa where there are minimum wage jobs without benefits. Wal-Mart has replaced many small businesses in rural counties. Many of their workers need welfare to survive. The welfare programs that Wal-Mart workers rely on include Medicaid, subsidized housing and food assistance. Meanwhile Wal-Mart and other corporations are setting records for corporate profits. A May 2013 report “The Low-Wage Drag on Our Economy: Wal-Mart’s Low Wages and Their Effect on Taxpayers and Economic Growth” shows how their business model exerts downward pressure on wages. Should we continue to support a created taxpayer-funded social welfare program by corporations? Raising the minimum wage could help alleviate those programs.
Maria Houser Conzemius June 13, 2013 at 11:14 am
Julia Ziesman, I boycott Walmart for the reasons you listed. American taxpayers subsidize Walmart'sRead More low wages and poor benefits with $2.1 billion a year. Collectively, Sam Walton's heirs contributed a whole $6,000 to charity. I looked up the three class-action lawsuits against Walmart that I knew about and found 71. Many lawsuits against Walmart are to try to make courts enforce their many rulings against Walmart. I was really upset when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to allow Walmart women workers' lawsuit against Walmart to proceed as a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit that shocked me the most was that of a 33-year-old handicapped woman in a wheelchair who wouldn't believe that Walmart had shaved her time card hours in order to pay her less than the pitiful hourly wage she should have earned. Her lawyers had to produce documents to prove to her that Walmart was really that unethical.