No, they can afford a place to live. They just might have to share it with 1-3 other people in an apartment in-which multiple people live in their own rooms.
You know, that thing we all did in college?
oh wait I'm sorry, as CITIZENS of TEH UNITED STATES... you are ENTITLED to a salary that pays for MY RIGHT TO LIVE and a nice cozy 1-2bdroom apartment all to myself!111one
Actually, the entitlement/expectation is even worse because they expect you to raise kids and care for a spouse without having to get a second income.
The question is, do you understand the situation? Do you understand that, even at the "lordly" wage of $13/hr, these people wouldn't be able to afford a place to live in Seattle? Do you understand how ugly and economically skewed that situation is?
Well, do you?
Directly from your link:
Do you understand that the $13 an hour jobs aren't for people trying to make it on their own in Seattle? Just like waggy working at Wal-Mart, not everyone needs a wage that affords them the ability to make it on their own in the big city. Here's an idea: commute. I think it was San Francisco that effectively forced all caterers out of their city by raising minimum wages such that catering businesses based in the city could not compete with catering companies that commuted in. The nature of the business involves travel, so their competition was set up with a huge advantage and inner city caterers were screwed.
In addition to my primary job (full time, $10 an hour) in San Diego, I did catering as a side job and I had a roommate in the suburbs (Mira Mesa). I didn't own a car and used a cheap motorcycle to get around (practically a scooter). Not once did I think I was entitled to a wage from my primary job that would allow me to "make it my own." It's laughable that anyone thinks minimum wage is supposed to enable city life for full time fast food workers living on their own.
When i worked fast food and other min wage jobs (target and walmart) when i asked to get my hours reduced it wasn't a issue.
Then again it was usually for school or sports. heck both walmart and McDonalds would let me get away with almost all of wresting season off. or at most 3 hours a week. Target refused that wich is why i went t walmart.
Granted that was 23 years ago..
Funny how people assume that a job appropriate for a student who didn't even need it is supposed to pay for them to live comfortably and raise a family without government assistance. You should feel ashamed for keeping that job from some deserving bread-winner!
Actually, why did you leave instead of demanding that it pay a living wage so that you could just work there forever?!
He also admitted to purposefully deceptively editing the tape. Deception is also known as ...lying.
Long story short, O'Keefe lied about some people in a video and Breitbart uncritically reported those lies. Breitbart at no time exercised appropriate due diligence and when notified of the deceptive nature of the video did not change their reporting on it.
That's the definition of an organization committed to outcomes, not information. ie: a propaganda site.
This is incorrect. The California AG's report that investigated the employee conduct found no evidence of intent by the employees to aid them. This was echoed by the GAO.
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf
(page 16)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11484.pdf
Additionally, ACORN employees have no affirmative obligation to report so those three that did were actually going above and beyond what the law requires.
I already saw an article linked to in this thread where Breitbart "changed the reporting" on it but insisted that it was still damning. You are choosing to ignore it to continue dismissing Breitbart's website as a biased source, proving your own bias in the process.
...and we've already discussed why the conclusions of CA and NY into
their particular ACORN offices does not say what you imply it says. As for there being nothing illegal because they weren't legally compelled to report it: so what? It's still despicable. Were they ever claiming it was illegal?! Just plug your ears and say "It may be despicable and that may have been the whole point but I'm going to ignore that because it was not illegal!"
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