It is very easy to have this mindset, wash your hands of the situation, and never think of it again.
Let's pretend that you are a 26 year old living in Wayne county. All the houseboat factories shut down in 2008 and Beldens moved operations to Mexico in 2016. You spend years working at Walmart (biggest employer) at 32 hours a week (to avoid paying for insurance and what not). You finally make the change and begin work at the Tyson plant in Albany making 15 an hour. You're finally able to work full time and bring home 845 bucks a paycheck. Girlfriend works there too and brings home the same amount. Insurance eats 245 of each paycheck so the two of you bring home 2,400 a month.
Girlfriend has 17k worth of student loans when she went to cosmetology school at campbellsville. That’s 200 dollar a month.
Two cricket phone bills total 90 a month.
Gas to and from work is 75 a week or 300 a month.
Rent is 600 a month.
So that 2400 is already down to 1,210.
Food per week is 150 and this includes eating out. So another 600.
Internet and cable is another 120.
down to 490 and now the utilities are due. Electric is 130 and water is another 40
So all of this leaves you with 320 bucks. This doesn’t account for entertainment or a car payment. These guys are lucky in that the cars are paid for, but Cody drives a 2005 pathfinder that has 195,000 miles and Katie drives an 07 mustang that has 200,000+ miles. Insurance for both is another 150 for minimum coverage and these guys are left with 170 dollars.
God forbid if they have to have a medical procedure done, car issues arise, and you see quickly why 70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Student loans for cosmetology - that's a DECISION. That's not COL.
Cricket phone bills - taxes and fees jack up that price. Government interference.
Gas - prices are too high due to government interference. Should be half that.
Insurance used to cost $60/month. It's so high now because of Obamacare. Government interference.
Operations moved to Mexico due to taxes and corporate regulations being too high and restrictive. That's government interference.
Internet is $60. Cable is a LUXURY. Try something like Prime for $12 and watch Roku TV for free.
$2400/month qualifies a family for earned income credit so there's a few thou in the bank every year to put into savings.
$600/mo in food for 2 people, really? WTF are they eating, steak and lobster? You may not know how to shop cheap, but I do. A family of 2 should be able to eat cheaply, clipping coupons and taking advantage of BOGO, for around $400. Not to mention, if not for government regulation of private gardens, they could even GROW some of their food in the back damn yard.
So now I've saved this family over $600/mo if the government wasn't effing with everything.
Looks a little different, doesn't it? The problem with you ignorant lefties is that you never studied economics, and you don't understand what the term
ceteris paribus means. If you'd bother to account for things like government interference, you'd see that YOU are the problem, not free enterprise. Not to mention, if it weren't such a pain in the ass to start a business these days what with all the regulation and fees and taxes and accountant fees, Joe Blow that you referenced could easily start a side gig and dig himself out of this so-called poverty that is actually still far RICHER than 99% of the rest of Planet Earth.
Edit: Speaking of which, the fact that illegals are being TRANSPORTED across the border by Biden, given thousands of dollars in debit cards, and $9k a month just for being here, I'd think YOU would be INFURIATED by that given the scenario of the couple you just invented that are scraping by. So why are you so pro-illegal? They're being handed tens of thousands a month and your little couple, Americans by birth, get the shaft.
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