How do they sleep at night? I just don't get it.
This just makes me so @$%!&% proud to be an American. The headline: Senate Kills Minimum Pay Boost. Basically, our senate decided they weren't going to sign a bill that would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to 7.25. Don't get excited, its not like they would get a $2.10 raise all at once, it would be gradual so those working minimum wage wouldn't get slap happy with all that extra cash lying around and go waste it on things like gas and a new pair of underwear at walmart. Imagine, making $5.15 an hour. Thats $206 a week at 40 hrs BEFORE taxes. Lets go crazy here and pretend you make some extra so you have a flat $200 a week. That is 800.00 a month to play with. Wow! I'm rich! Lets find a place to live. Now, its just you so ya don't need anything too big, even a studio would suffice. Found a place, not too bad, its better than the really tiny studio, its still a studio but the place has a pool. its $525 a month and includes everything but Electric. So add that in . Its about $600. Ya need a phone. Just for emergency. Get a US Cellular plan as then you have the free call me minutes so you don't feel completly cut off, but nothing extra. Its $35 a month. Pretend you have a car already, and bonus, its paid in full. So you still have a whopping $165 to play with. Except you don't. Feel that growling in your stomach? You're hungry. So ya go to the grocery store. But you need to stop and get gas. Thats $30 per week, at $3 a gallon. So now you have $65 to cover groceries for the whole month. But you slammed your hand in the car door and need 17 stiches. You have to go to the emergency room and now you have no money, no food and a hospital bill and no insurance. Now imagine all of this with a kid.
Instead, congress was talking about violent video games and how we need to put a better rating system on them. THEY ARE VIDEO GAMES!
Game: n. A way of amusing oneself; pastime; diversion. 2. A sport or other competitive activity. 3. A single contest between opposing players or teams. etc
IT'S NOT REAL! Just something to do. A waste of time. Kind of like what they are doing all day. Wasting time.
This is what they spend their time doing??
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Just when you go all political the English major creeps back in ;)
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Trust me, you'll like it.
Um, you do realize that the myspace link just brings you to your own profile if you have one open, its like clicking your home button on your browser or my.yahoo.com/ My yahoo page isn't the same as yours. And by the way, why should I trust you, I have no idea who the hell you are!!
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