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Originally posted by SRTkid86
you think Wally world is going to start paying all their employees 8/hour and keep rolling back prices?
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by Solarskye
........ at $5.85 working 40hrs a week, a person can expect to earn $234 a week, or $936 a month, a total of $11,223 a year.
This falls below the US Standard for Poverty.
Average rent in a run down ghetto area in town in the US is around $550 a month.
$386 left over......
Assuming this person owns a car, the car payments and insurance (as the state forces people to buy corporate insurance........) would be about $150 (assuming it's a POS car and they don't owe much on it.. of course, car breaks down they are out of a job...)
$236 left....
Average 80-100 a WEEK on food..
Oh snap. Can't eat.
maybe roman noodles. But i though, in America, we where better then that.
Inflation is around 15% or hirer depending on the source, and the minimum wage has only recently risen since Clinton era?
Disgusting.
It should reside around $7-$8 an hour, depending on the cost of living in the city you live. Perhaps Solar, you have never seen with your own eyes the squalor some people live in ... not homeless people... but people with families and children who sleep on the floor of a one room flat because the minimum wage is all they can earn.
Originally posted by beforetime
And some people was not fortune enough in life to have a college education.
and some even quit high school to work job's..to support there family at age 16.
God I hate rich people.
[edit on 24-7-2008 by beforetime]
Originally posted by blackthorne
reply to post by SRTkid86
education is not always the answer. remember when das newt wanted to make every one an entrepeneur? that would not work out either. no why? there is always some one who must sweep up, fix something, clean, cook etc...
these people need to live, don't they?
and do not forget that one can have a good job, "oops, sorry, we had to downsize and your job is moving to india as well." and as some before said, then the ceo gets a massive pay out.
Originally posted by beforetime
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by Solarskye
........ at $5.85 working 40hrs a week, a person can expect to earn $234 a week, or $936 a month, a total of $11,223 a year.
This falls below the US Standard for Poverty.
Average rent in a run down ghetto area in town in the US is around $550 a month.
$386 left over......
Assuming this person owns a car, the car payments and insurance (as the state forces people to buy corporate insurance........) would be about $150 (assuming it's a POS car and they don't owe much on it.. of course, car breaks down they are out of a job...)
$236 left....
Average 80-100 a WEEK on food..
Oh snap. Can't eat.
maybe roman noodles. But i though, in America, we where better then that.
Inflation is around 15% or hirer depending on the source, and the minimum wage has only recently risen since Clinton era?
Disgusting.
It should reside around $7-$8 an hour, depending on the cost of living in the city you live. Perhaps Solar, you have never seen with your own eyes the squalor some people live in ... not homeless people... but people with families and children who sleep on the floor of a one room flat because the minimum wage is all they can earn.
This is the point the Ritch and well over middle class..can't get
people that actually make this minimum wage...barely scrap by.
And some people was not fortune enough in life to have a college education.
and some even quit high school to work job's..to support there family at age 16.
6.55 a hour..
gallon of milk 5 dollar's....OMG!!!!! they worked 1 hour of there life for a gallon of milk..and got change back lol
stop minimum wage raises now!!!!
outrage outrage!!!!!!!!
a can of baby similac cost for a infant cost's 30 dollar's....
Btw.. i buy 2 24 pack's of the shrimp ramen noodle's every month..
money is tight.
God I hate rich people.
[edit on 24-7-2008 by beforetime]
Originally posted by Solarskye
reply to post by nixie_nox
You all make some great points.
[edit on 7/24/2008 by Solarskye]