Rick Perry announces candidacy, promises to go Godzilla on Washington DC

[Pooky 3,830]

Minimum wage will barely buy groceries and gas to work.

What part of "no longer wholly reliant" escaped your understanding?

If you plan the system such that the drawdown of foodstamps is a little less than a 1:1 ratio, and so the work becomes incentivised, even a minimum wage job becomes attractive and gets the work ethic back into an discouraged, apathetic and even belligerently opposed, section of the populace.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

What part of "no longer wholly reliant" escaped your understanding?

If you plan the system such that the drawdown of foodstamps is a little less than a 1:1 ratio, and so the work becomes incentivised, even a minimum wage job becomes attractive and gets the work ethic back into an discouraged, apathetic and even belligerently opposed, section of the populace.

Do you envision your country as being "no longer wholly reliant" on jobs that pay a decent wage?

[Pooky 3,830]

Do you envision your country as being "no longer wholly reliant" on jobs that pay a decent wage?

It already is.

That's what needs to change.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Minimum wage will barely buy groceries and gas to work.

must suck where you live.

better talk to your state about the CoL and see what's up with that!

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

It already is.

That's what needs to change.

Exactly my point.

must suck where you live.

better talk to your state about the CoL and see what's up with that!

Could you live on $218 a week?

That's minimum wage x 40 hours less about 25% for taxes.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Exactly my point.

Could you live on $218 a week?

That's minimum wage x 40 hours less about 25% for taxes.

you'd have closer to $245 actually. taxes end up being more right around 15-16%.

let's see: $25 for gas. $35 for food. - That's $240 a month for those items. Leaves you $735 and you can easily find an All bills paid apartment for $500. Which leaves you $235 a month for whatever else you choose to spend it on or save.

So yeah, it's livable.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

$25 a month for gas? I guess if you don't drive to work...

[Obama 2012 1,714]

$25 a month for gas? I guess if you don't drive to work...

if you have a fuel efficient vehicle and don't drive too far.

I put $30/week in and almost fills me up. I drive 25 miles to work every day. Fill up once a week.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

if you have a fuel efficient vehicle and don't drive too far.

I put $30/week in and almost fills me up. I drive 25 miles to work every day. Fill up once a week.

How are you buying that fuel efficient vehicle on a minimum wage job?

Oh - and $35 for food? Not a chance.

Edited August 14, 2011 by Rebecca Jo

[웃 910]

you'd have closer to $245 actually. taxes end up being more right around 15-16%.

let's see: $25 for gas. $35 for food. - That's $240 a month for those items.

$25 a month for gas? I guess if you don't drive to work...

$25 per week / $100 per month

That's realistic but $35 for food is not. And what if they have kids (which he forgot to calculate 1 to 3 children in the fam).

$35/7 = $5 a day for all 3 meals....$5/3 = $1.667 per meal to feed yourself and up to 3 children (maybe more!).

Danno (and now DJ Kyo) claim to be able to do it. I know I can't.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

$25 per week / $100 per month

That's realistic but $35 for food is not. And what if they have kids (which he forgot to calculate 1 to 3 children in the fam).

$35/7 = $5 a day for all 3 meals....$5/3 = $1.667 per meal to feed yourself and up to 3 children (maybe more!).

Danno (and now DJ Kyo) claim to be able to do it. I know I can't.

#1 - don't have kids if you can't afford them. Period.

#2 - $35 can buy you cans of soup, fruits, salad materials, fresh meat, bread, milk, etc.

Again, if you lived in a state with a good CoL, you'd know this.

[Tanya and Barry 59]

The unemployment rate in TX is 8.2%. That puts the state square in the middle of the states in the union. 25 states have an unemployment rate lower than Texas and 24 have an unemployment rate higher than Texas. The state ain't the economic miracle that some would like us to perceive it as. And Perry isn't a guy that made an economic miracle happen either - nor would he know how to do any such thing. He's Bush without brains.

Oxymoron.

[Pooky 3,830]

Typical

From the left and the right, it's all or nothing. No room in either mindset for a workable compromise.

[웃 910]

#1 - don't have kids if you can't afford them. Period.

#2 - $35 can buy you cans of soup, fruits, salad materials, fresh meat, bread, milk, etc.

Again, if you lived in a state with a good CoL, you'd know this.

Meats are very expensive. Sometimes chicken is cheap but I'm looking at about $10 for 2 cheap and thin pieces of steak that taste horrible.

Fish - don't even get me started.

[Rebecca Jo 1,962]

#1 - don't have kids if you can't afford them. Period.

#2 - $35 can buy you cans of soup, fruits, salad materials, fresh meat, bread, milk, etc.

Again, if you lived in a state with a good CoL, you'd know this.

What about the $30 an hour factory worker who lost his job? How is he going to feed his family? Your zero-population growth plan for the future of our country doesn't apply very well to the present day situation of many people.