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#LivetheWage

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Jan Schakowsky, a Congressional member, is beginning her "Live the Wage" menu where she pretends she makes minimum wage and can only eat as much as she can afford. Here is her first menu:

RE https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/492378179966078976

Looks like a normal menu to me. Three meals a day with snacks. No one's starving with that menu.
 
Jan Schakowsky, a Congressional member, is beginning her "Live the Wage" menu where she pretends she makes minimum wage and can only eat as much as she can afford. Here is her first menu:

RE https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/492378179966078976

Looks like a normal menu to me. Three meals a day with snacks. No one's starving with that menu.

What she isnt taking into factor is 1.)Housing 2.)Bills 3.)Transportation 4.)Medical costs, etc etc
 
Jan Schakowsky, a Congressional member, is beginning her "Live the Wage" menu where she pretends she makes minimum wage and can only eat as much as she can afford. Here is her first menu:

RE https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/492378179966078976

Looks like a normal menu to me. Three meals a day with snacks. No one's starving with that menu.

Gee, something looks missing from that list.

Oh yeah, the prices of the items, as well as how she's going to have to divy up her income between her food and everything else she has to pay for. This is the most idiotic, foolish and ill conceived stunt I've ever seen.

It's also dumb.
 
What she isnt taking into factor is 1.)Housing 2.)Bills 3.)Transportation 4.)Medical costs, etc etc

They figured 77 dollars after taxes and housing, so that is what they get for the week. Source I found did not go into details on how they arrived at that number.
 
They figured 77 dollars after taxes and housing, so that is what they get for the week. Source I found did not go into details on how they arrived at that number.

As far as I could tell the "details" are the grocery list. Did you see something I didn't?
 
Behold...the life of the college student. Or your typical single soldier. Or an oil rig worker making 25 an hour.
 
Damn, I'd have to start drinking Bud-Lite, shoot me.
 

Thanks, but while the list in and of itself seems innocuous enough, I'd be a lot more sold on it if it included the prices. Crunching the numbers is the reality of putting together an affordable shopping list, and excluding them, especially when you add a politician and a publicity stunt into the mix, makes it look fishy.
 
Ah, a political stunt.
These things are ALL stunts.

Most of us grew up where we started off making low wages, and yes, even minimum wage. Some of us worked seasonal jobs where they didnt even require minimum wage. Knowing it would be expensive to live, many of us worked two jobs (a full and part time job)to makeends meet. If we were single we got room mates. I played college football with a guy that literally rented a mans converted tool shed. Even when I got my first sheet metal job, I worked a second job. In the military throughout a 20 year career I worked 2 jobs. I never knew ANYONE in my life that got a minimum wage job and felt like they had 'made it' and should be able to live off of that income.

Its a thing we call 'life'.
 
Do the liberals in this thread realize she isn't a conservative mocking minimum wage but rather a liberal pointing out just how bad things are by posting her weekly menu if she made minimum wage?
 
Do the liberals in this thread realize she isn't a conservative mocking minimum wage but rather a liberal pointing out just how bad things are by posting her weekly menu if she made minimum wage?

It doesn't matter, it's a shoddy presentation either way.
 

From that article:

Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Tim Ryan, and Keith Ellison are leading the charge in the House, with additional help from Ted Strickland, the former governor of Ohio and current president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. And those public officials participating insist that experiences like these are valuable for relating to constituents.

"We need to try to experience, at least for a week, what life is really like. We can't do that totally, obviously—we'd have to change our entire lifestyles
," Strickland said on a media conference call Monday. "But at least those of us who are engaged in this effort will be able to experience at some level what it must be like for people who live week after week and month after month working really hard and just struggling to keep their nose above the water line."


:lol:

If you can't really live it, then it's not really relating. They really don't get it, because they still don't have the stress or worry at the end of the day that's associated with actually living it.
 
Do the liberals in this thread realize she isn't a conservative mocking minimum wage but rather a liberal pointing out just how bad things are by posting her weekly menu if she made minimum wage?

What's amusing is she thinks her menu is horrible. LOL!
 
Jan Schakowsky, a Congressional member, is beginning her "Live the Wage" menu where she pretends she makes minimum wage and can only eat as much as she can afford. Here is her first menu:

RE https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/492378179966078976

Looks like a normal menu to me. Three meals a day with snacks. No one's starving with that menu.

Poverty in America is different than poverty in the third world. Things like clean, potable running water, electricity, substantial housing, telephone, television and an ample supply of food are taken for granted.

Other stuff that this charade neglects to include is that minimum wage jobs are supposed to be temporary. If you consider an entry level position to be a career or a ceiling you've sold yourself short. These are supposed to be jobs for people just entering the work force who have other sources of household income.
 
We need to try to experience, at least for a week, what life is really like. We can't do that totally, obviously—we'd have to change our entire lifestyles,"

Repeated for truth.
 
What's amusing is she thinks her menu is horrible. LOL!

She has sweet potato and baked beans on the menu. It is horrible.

And more seriously, it is almost impossible to judge just from the menu. Serving size is just one variable that is not listed but would need to be to really judge.
 
She has sweet potato and baked beans on the menu. It is horrible.

OMG! We agree! LOL! I hate sweet potatoes and baked beans.
 
Poverty in America is different than poverty in the third world. Things like clean, potable running water, electricity, substantial housing, telephone, television and an ample supply of food are taken for granted.

Other stuff that this charade neglects to include is that minimum wage jobs are supposed to be temporary. If you consider an entry level position to be a career or a ceiling you've sold yourself short. These are supposed to be jobs for people just entering the work force who have other sources of household income.

It also neglects to mention how few minimum wage workers are actually supporting households.

Your average minimum wage worker is using that money to supplement what their parents or spouse are making.
 
These things are ALL stunts.

Most of us grew up where we started off making low wages, and yes, even minimum wage. Some of us worked seasonal jobs where they didnt even require minimum wage. Knowing it would be expensive to live, many of us worked two jobs (a full and part time job)to makeends meet. If we were single we got room mates. I played college football with a guy that literally rented a mans converted tool shed. Even when I got my first sheet metal job, I worked a second job. In the military throughout a 20 year career I worked 2 jobs. I never knew ANYONE in my life that got a minimum wage job and felt like they had 'made it' and should be able to live off of that income.

Its a thing we call 'life'.

To be upfront, I only made minimum wage during summers while in college. During that time I worked 60-80 hours a week. That allowed me to save enough so I did not have to work during the winter as a I went to a free college.

Funny thing is, I still averaged approximately 60 hours a week for the 40 years in was in the workforce. Although I did not get paid by the hour. Was very fortunate that I was able to achieve a fair amount while starting out in the lower half of earners.
 
I got through four years of college with Ramen noodles from loose change in my couch cushions.

Maybe it was five years, but who's counting.
 
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