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Originally Posted by d from birmingham
What your little link fails to tell you is that the majority of those on food stamps are working full time jobs.
Walmart loves to underpay it's workers so they have to be on food stamps.
Oh btw the majority of those on welfare are white and live in rural areas.
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There are a few things I do know.
1. I can't get anyone to clean my house for under $25 per hour (no license needed in Texas).
2. I can't get anybody to paint my house for under $35 per hour (no license needed in Texas).
3. I can't get anybody to pressure wash for under $25 per hour (no license needed in Texas).
4. When I was going to school, I hung wallpaper and I AVERAGED $30 an hour on residential jobs and $50 an hour doing commercial jobs back in the early 90's (no license needed in Texas).
5. I can't get my car worked on for less than $75 per hour.
6. I can't get my boat worked on for less than $75 per hour.
7. I can't get my plumbing worked on for less than $100 per hour.
8. When I do work in my backyard, I hire a guy who works a warehouse my friend manages for $15 an hour plus pizza to do any digging.
If you fill out an application which requires essentially no skills and you are clocking in and out at specified hours in an air conditioned building where you get paid the same regardless of busting your hump or just getting by and then head home to watch tv, yep, you're probably getting a fairly crappy wage that won't pay the bills or ever move you forward.
When I finished high school and started going to junior college, I worked for Mervyn's department store for a little above minimum wage. I believe it was around $6 per hour. One day I went to a wallpaper store with a girl who was going to wallpaper her bathroom. By circumstance, they were about to have a class on how to hang it, so we attended it. It was relatively simple. I picked up a card by the register for a wallpaper hanger. I called and asked what they charged to hang wallpaper, and it was $15 per roll. I attended another class and then asked if I could hang some displays at the store for free. The staff, who didn't want to do it themselves, agreed. After doing it a few days, I had cards printed up and put them at the register by several other groups of cards. Soon I was getting calls for jobs, and within a month quit the department store. I continued hanging wallpaper while in junior college and while at the university I transferred. I also hung wallpaper briefly after college while job hunting.
If I didn't have even a high school diploma and was working at Walmart, I'd find a painter, and volunteer to work for free just to learn the tricks and get the practice. Then I'd post ads on Craigslist and rent, borrow and beg for whatever equipment I needed to do the first few jobs.
Any adult without specific limitation such as a mental handicap, physical disability or some unique situation has no excuse to moan and grown about getting minimum wage. If you're (most people) too damn lazy to put in the effort and sweat to improve your life, tough luck; it's your own dang fault.
"What, I have to work in the heat. Oh no, not me."
"What, I have to work for free to learn that trade. Oh no, not me."
"What, I have to go from work to a vocational school to learn that trade. Oh no, I've got stuff I want to do."
Like I've said, some people have legitimate reasons while they can't get ahead, but for most people, it comes down to being too lazy. In places where there are the fracking booms going on, they pay people quite well to dig ditches and carry pipe. In Houston, you can't get a person out in the suburbs to clean a house for less than $25 per hour. We've shopped around plenty and know this to be a fact. If you can't learn to dust, sweep, vacuum and mop, you're not worth more than minimum wage.
Sorry, but that's just the cold hard truth.