I am 17 years old (6 months shy of 18!), and I need money.

My family is filing for bankruptcy and I’m going to need to make some money to pay for college books and other (social and recreational) expenses. However, I get sick a lot and have a weak immune system, there are no jobs available in town, and I have no source of transportation. Working for a company online would be ideal for me. I could do it whenever I want, wouldn’t have to worry about being too sick, and countless other reasons. However, I can’t seem to find anything that suits me. I’ve looked at survey sites, but they all seem to be hours of work for 50 cents. I want decent pay for decent work. I don’t expect to "get rich quick" or anything like that, I just want a job that will pay at least 10 dollars for an hour’s work (as my friends who work at fast food joints get paid at least that much).

So basically: Decent (or well) paying job online available to a 17 year old that isn’t too much work for not enough pay. Is there anything out there for me or am I just dreaming?
I would also like to acknowledge the fact that I’m not looking for snotty remarks and worthless answers. I am aware that there are scams and pyramid schemes and stupid crap like that, I was asking whether or not there are jobs available online. I know for a fact that people work online (my dad’s friend Doug works online for an advertising company, he does graphs and calculations and that is a part time job for him), I was just wondering if any job like this existed for someone under 18 years of age. I’m not sure if "freelance" would be the right term, but I’m looking for something similar. Please refrain from comments that imply that I’m naive or stupid, because I am not and it just makes you come off as a judgmental and inconsiderate member of this community. Thank you.
I worked at a magazine for 7 months on a paid internship. I imput data, called advertisers, did research related to the magazine, formatted certain articles and edited many. I am a published writer as I have both a published poem and published articles. Those are (some of – I can’t list them all)my qualifications/experience. I don’t mind imputting data or doing mundane things like that, I just need a job because my family is desperate.

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The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past .8 trillion under new White House estimates.

Budget office figures released Monday would add billion to the 2009 red ink — increasing it to more than four times last year’s all-time high as the government hands out billions more than expected for people who have lost jobs and takes in less tax revenue from people and companies making less money.

The unprecedented deficit figures flow from the deep recession, the Wall Street bailout and the cost of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill — as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance between what the government spends and what it takes in.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/White-House-Budget-deficit-to-apf-15199183.html?.v=8

Government spending is paid for 1 of 2 ways:

1)monetizing debt ("printing" money) which leads to more inflation (=each dollar bill has less purchasing power)

2)higher taxes & new hidden taxes (carbon taxes, etc)

Well since taxes won’t even begin to cover TRILLIONS in new spending, option one is being used to the max.

Now I want you to watch this 60 minutes interview from 2007. In it, the former comptroller general (nation’s top accountant) says the United States government is bankrupt and that if it were a company if would have failed by now. He also says that at CURRENT spending levels (2007 levels) the U.S. govt. could only afford to pay social security and some medicaid by 2040.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs&feature=related

Since then we have passed trillion in bailouts, nearly trillion dollars in "stimulus", and Obama has proposed AN ADDITIONAL .5 trillion budget.

Now if the comptroller general thought the U.S. couldn’t afford to pay for Bush’s prescription drug bill (from many years back), HOW is Obama going to pay for all this new spending???

He’ll either have to raise taxes to levels undreamed or hyperinflate the dollar attempting to monetize more debt.
boss h……………probably higher than that.

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