Re "A Mulligan by Mickelson on Tax Talk," Jan . 23 Most of us who work paycheck to paycheck don't begrudge Phil Mickelson his success.
In the most recent film of his work, "Paycheck", Ben Affleck rather unconvincingly plays a reverse engineer who routinely has his memory erased after he does a job of work, as part of commercial non-disclosure agreements.
"We've always been identified with the most dominant shopper we have, the people who work paycheck to paycheck, week to week," said Tom Coughlin, the president of the Wal-Mart Stores division.
Lots of big budget movies have been adapted from Dick's work: Paycheck, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, A Scanner Darkly, etc. Blade Runner, one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time, is based on Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick allegedly died of a stroke four months before Blade Runner opened.
Although we were both working, paychecks were sporadic at best, and they never came in as fast as the bills did.
Teresa Rafferty, a single Staten Island homeowner, told the mayor she was "trying to pay my mortgage and utilities, working paycheck to paycheck, and just hoping that oil prices will come down".
Colleen Downey doesn't think things are all that great right now, working paycheck to paycheck as a school bus driver. .
We work from paycheck to paycheck".
More than 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential faced furloughs; millions more could be working without paychecks.
Work, a paycheck and disposable income all look a long way off.
