So this is 51% of our country, how sad
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So this is 51% of our country, how sad
| Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:16am |
A video showing just what we've been saying.
| Tue, 11-11-2008 - 10:16am |
A video showing just what we've been saying.
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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.
"Min. wage isn't $8.00 an hour every were either. "
Only in California, Massachusetts, and Washington.
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.
That's about right for the majority of states, actually.
I went and bought one
That's terrible - and not my God, either.
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