Salary Increase letter

How to ask your Boss for a salary increase..? One day an employee sends a letter to Her boss asking for an increase in her salary !!! Dear Bo$$ In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing$ mo$t de $perately. I think you $hould be under $tanding of the need$ of your worker$ who have given $ o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company . I am $ure you will gue $$ what I mean and re$pond $oon. $ incerely Your$, Marian $hih ---------------------------------------------------- The next day, the employee received a nice reply like this : Dear Marian I kNOw what you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NO ticeably well as yet . NO w the newspaper are saying the world`s leading ecoNOmists are NO t sure if the United States may go into aNO ther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad . I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean . Yours truly, Manager