So this is 51% of our country, how sad

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Registered: 10-02-2008
So this is 51% of our country, how sad
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Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:16am

A video showing just what we've been saying.

KAREN

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 4:52pm

Karen since you admit to your age of 42. I am going to point something out since i am the same age as you. Minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. Look at the cost of gas from when we were that young. Rent, food. etc. Much of that has gone up but minimum wage has not. Also not all areas are created equal where minimum wage can go as far. NYC is not a good place for anybody on minimum wage, no true urban area is. Los Angles isn't exactly a cheap place to live.


I know I would not be able to survive on a minum wage job now if i was a young adult unless i live with my parents. I know many people moving off of Long island because they can not afford to live here. Despite earning good livings. Through no fault opf their own. The housing market got artifically jacked up not more than 5 years ago. My house which i bought back in 1993 only cost me for a 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch 130,000 on Long Island(not a rich area by the way). My house now is worth over 300,000+. Because the housing market got jacked up so much. The rentals around here gotr jacked up too. And in my area there aren't alot of rental properties(legal ones) so that also will jack up the price of rent because the demand is greater than the supply. And on Long Island affordable housing to some probably who think like you. Means welfare type people. But it isn't. It is meant to help young familes get a leg up in the world. But to many NIMBYs they feel like their property value will go down if they let the riff raft in.


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Registered: 08-30-2004
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 5:36pm

"Min. wage isn't $8.00 an hour every were either. "


Only in California, Massachusetts, and Washington.

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Registered: 07-08-2004
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 5:49pm

Hi there...good to "see" you here. I know...it's hard to NOT become upset!

For the most part, people who post things like this never had to struggle financially in their lives. Or, if they did, they had a lot of family support to help them get back on their feet.

It's ludicrous to think that wanting to be able to pay less for gas, electricity, and groceries is somehow a cry for welfare. It's shameful that anyone would pretend that's the intention of the video.


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Registered: 10-09-2008
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 6:22pm
I was just giving a base cost that's all. I know you can get an apartment were I live for $700.00. I live in coastal Georgia.
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Registered: 10-09-2008
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 6:24pm
It's $6.75 where I live.
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Registered: 08-30-2004
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 6:40pm

That's about right for the majority of states, actually.

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Registered: 10-09-2008
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 6:49pm

I went and bought one

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Registered: 08-30-2004
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 6:53pm

That's terrible - and not my God, either.

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Registered: 04-09-2006
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 7:07pm
I live in the "sticks" of west Texas ($7/hr no benefits is considered decent pay) and it might be possible to get a 1 bedroom apt. for $600/mo. A doublewide on an acre runs $130,000, and that's about the cheapest "house" you'll find. Yep, there's lots of "weekend" homeowners here, kinda hard on the full-timers. And two well off families who are in a sort of contest...one family buys the desirable houses and turns them into bed-and-breakfasts; the other buys the cheaper houses to rent out as high priced slums. If you're of modest means and you sell your house, you'll never get another.
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Registered: 04-09-2006
Sat, 11-15-2008 - 7:11pm
I took food to a co-worker the other day becuase they ran out of money before the end of the month because of medical bills. And they have health insurance.

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