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The opportunity is there for the poor. It's up to them to take advantage of it.
One cannot be handed wealth; they must work for it and earn it themselves.
Read this book and then get back to us.
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Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
Yep, there you have it...the American solution for everything. Why not get 3 jobs? Why not even 4? Work until you croak!
Oh, I forgot.Having a job and a half or two jobs for even a short period of time (less than a year, in this case) is not the American way.
Wish someone had told me this years ago when I held two jobs for awhile, rather than rely on somebody else to take care of me.
I may have learned how to become government dependent so I could whine and cry about how I could never get anywhere or have all that leisure to waste on fun things that didn't bring in one cent but kept me poor..
actually, cell phones are cheaper than home phones........and how do you put a contact number on that resume without a phone.......plus most employers that decide to call you want you NOW..........or they move down the list and scratch you off.......
lol that some Americans post a cell is expensive u can get throwaway phones for 40.00 at any supermarket now.
Some landlines are 2-300 a month at times- just google Centurylink/embarq and see how outrageous the taxes -federal taxes and state- just for the "privilige" of owning a stupid landline landlines are going the way of the ancient hardrware of desktop computers......
mmmmmmmmmm,then that guy I saw yesterday,by the on ramp,holding that sign saying "please help,hungry" was just a coverup?It had to be VERY uncomfortable to stand there in the rain holding that sign........
ft lauderdale looks like a third world nation with people begging for jobs and food...statistically they cant all be addicts who "chose that way of life".....plus now there are MANY homeless children.......
Oh, I forgot.Having a job and a half or two jobs for even a short period of time (less than a year, in this case) is not the American way.
Wish someone had told me this years ago when I held two jobs for awhile, rather than rely on somebody else to take care of me.
I may have learned how to become government dependent so I could whine and cry about how I could never get anywhere or have all that leisure to waste on fun things that didn't bring in one cent but kept me poor..
How about working one honest job full time and being able to get by.
If you want companies to continue to pay slave wages while the CEOs and management live in extreme wealth, you should be happy with the present circumstances. Find another job or two! Have a good life!
Well hang on in there. The OWS crowd wants to make $115K per year the MINIMUM salary.
It's in there list of demands.
Minimum wage for 26,000 years
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Here's another way to think about these enormous pay packages. Becoming a millionaire will probably only ever be a distant dream for the average American. But for these two CEOs, it was a dream that came true every single day last year, when each of them pulled in more than $1.1 million a day, before taxes. This assumes they worked all weekdays and took little vacation time -- as you might expect from a busy CEO.
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When you consider what people unfortunate enough to be at the bottom of the pay pyramid make. Americans earning the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour would have to work 26,100 years to make what Fairbank brought home last year.
Those who receive public assistance have 3 times the birth rate of everyone else. The welfare-dependent class is growing exponentially, 3 times the rate of those who have to pay to support them.
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"The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) gave states greater flexibility to formulate and implement initiatives to reduce welfare dependency and encourage employment for members of low-income families with children. For the nation, in 2006, 10 years after passage of the Act, the birth rate for women 15 to 50 years old receiving public assistance income in the last 12 months was155 births per 1,000 women, about three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (53 births per 1,000 women)."
"For the nation, the birth rate for women receiving public assistance was160 births per 1,000 women, almost three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (56 births per 1,000 women)."
Who thinks that's sustainable? Who thinks taxpayers will be able to afford to keep paying more and more to financially support an exponentially growing welfare-dependent class? Who thinks the problems associated with poverty will be solved by paying for and therefore encouraging the exponential growth of the welfare-dependent class?
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u can get throwaway phones for 40.00 at any supermarket now. 
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