Yep, those Gates kid's are really going to have to hustle to become self sufficient with only 10 million a piece.Then get a second job or improve your life! I'm sorry moaning and groaning about minimum is a waste! Work.. Imagine rather then complain!The world has change a lot since you and I were kids.ABSOLUTELY AGREE!Lol good god dude. Using median as your argument is worse than using mean. The extreme amount of high income, again, is going to skew the numbers.
And no shit we have full time jobs. Do you really think anyone making less than 10 an hour can live off of that even at 40 hours a week? Again, pay attention, that number is 16.5 million.
Yep, 500,000 jobs could be lost. So be it. It will lift 16 million people out of poverty and the economy will inevitably create more jobs because of the increase in economic demand.
I personally have made less than $10 an hour, and lived off that at 40 hours a week. And I have seen people with families, a wife that didn't work, and two kids to feed, live off less than $10 an hour.
You can live on very little. It's a matter of choice, not situational fact.
What is so wrong about using coupons? Checking for sales? Buying USED clothes, furniture? Is that unAmerican?
These idiots that plea that old cliched song about families not able to live on less then $10/hour have obviously NEVER worked in a garden as
I did when I was younger and we co-oped with 4 other families gardens sharing FRESH fruit,vegetables,etc.!
I have to laugh when I see these football players pull sleds with weights to build muscles.
HELL , i was pulling a sled with rocks over our gardens to break up clods to ready for planting doing one better then these young studs... not only was I building muscles BUT DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE!
This poor crap about living in poverty... my brother and 2 sisters evidently lived in poverty ... we didn't know it! My Mom didn't work my Dad worked
40 hours PLUS we gardened, gleaned corn (those don't know what "gleaning is..Look it up!).. and never missed a meal!
So I get really tired of hearing how these poor people are doing with their:
=== $ 5,666 in Earned Income Credit i.e. a check from Uncle Sam instead of paying they get a check!!!
=== $12,000 free housing , Section 8 will pay up to $1,000/month
=== $ 2,400 free food,
=== $ 1,200 in free cell phone plus
=== $ 5,000 a year in free health care from Medicaid.
So this is about $26,000 a year in FREE MONEY, free goods and free services... on top of the less then $10/hour!!!
Most poor families don't have gardens because they don't have yards. They live in subsided housing which is usually a small apartment in a complex with sidewalks and a parking lot for a yard. Poor people glean today but not in a corn field. You don't find those in Chicago, Detroit, or LA. Their gleaning is usually restricted to stealing from a supermarket or shopping in nearby garbage bins.
To expect poor people to survive as you did as a child many years ago is not realistic. When I grew up in the 1950's, you could raise a family on $2/hour. A $3 burger cost about 30 cents, a $3 box of Wheates which was twice the size cost about 35 cents, and gasoline was 25 cents a gallon.
So many things that would have been considered luxuries years ago, are necessities today. Cell phones are replacing land lines and are often cheaper, most schools require kids to do their homework on computers, TV's have become the cheapest form of entertainment, and with the rising cost of public transportation, a car has become a necessity. Years ago, there was always a neighbor or family member to take care of the kids but not today. If you have kids and work, then you're probably going to need childcare which is a big expensive. My son lives in Seattle where the average cost of childcare is $13 an hour. At a wage of $10/hr, his wife would loose money even neglecting the cost of, transportation, and other expenses.
This constant effort to remove stress. To make it easier. It is making us weaker!
Libraries have free internet access.
I am just sick of this older generation wanting to make things better for their children when if LIKE STING said..
What do Sting, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have in common?
All three have huge fortunes, and none of them are giving it to their kids.
Sting just revealed that most of his $300 million won’t end up with his six adult children. “I certainly don’t want to leave them trust funds that are albatrosses round their necks,” the musician told the Daily Mail in June.
“They have to work. All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything, which I really respect and appreciate.”
But with this attitude.."we need to help by giving a fish just feeds them for a day... If you taught your son self-sufficiency you wouldn't be giving
these excuses and it is YOUR fault for not providing the experience as Sting, Gates, etc. are doing!
Don't give a hand out... give a hand UP!
My daughter in-law want's to work. She just can pay $13/hr for child care.
So what?
What business is it of your, how much the Gate kids have?
If you spent half as much of your energy finding something of value to do, as you wasting whining and bitching and moaning about the Gate kids, maybe you'd have something to live your daughter other forums post bitching about the gate kids.
How did Americans become such whiny wimpy people?
We had Americans crossing the west, fighting natives, dealing with illness, farming untamed ground with their bare hands, and they didn't bitch and moan about someone's kids somewhere. They were too busy building their own lives, and fighting their own battles.
Now we've become a bunch of whiners over the the hardship of child care, complaining about what the Gate kids have?
We had people cross the planet, fighting in trenches, dying in the thousands, to prevent tyranny across the world..... and now "wah wah.... child care! Obama Care! Food stamps! Gate kids! Wah wah !".... how did we end up such pathetic babies???
Flopper, what you need isn't a government program... you need father or a friend man enough to tell you to GROW UP. Just GROW UP. Quit your whining, and get your butt to work.