Good G/d what some dillusional propaganda. This girl will be no better off at $15 an hour because she's obviously NOT working full time, AND, then she would lose all her cushy benefits.

Wow, so here are some things I also noticed.

1. Her house is VERY nice, two story, granite counters, and she only pays like $230 a month, sorry don't feel sorry for her.

I have a nice house with payments close to hers. I live in a mixed area because there are nice houses for cheap. And the benefit is that when I bought this house 8 years ago It was the best yard on the street. Now the neighbors both white and black are keeping their yards much better and the trash on the street is gone too. Don't fuss at your neighbors. Be an example, a good one.


2. She says she can't afford vegetables but has SODA in her cart.

And? I get myself 36 cans of soda a month and several gallons of ice tea.

3. She acts like they don't have enough food to eat, BUT she looks VERY well fed to me.

There's where you're missing a lot. Know why poor folk are fat? I'm fat and I'm pretty poor. It's because cheap food is fattening and just one step above poison. So you get fat and sick. I have never and will never be able to afford decent food. And my wife isn't very good at turning raw veggies into edible food. But damn she can fix a sandwich.

4. She says she only goes to doctor if she has too, well so what, so do most people, AND it's obviously all paid for.

Yeah I did it too for as long as I could. I raised my kids and they went to the dr when they needed to. Like when one got bit by a copperhead. Or when he broke his hand being a teen and punched the metal door. Or when one's appendix was bad. But I didn't get that from him. I told him what was wrong and he spent a day finding out I was right.

5. She said a root canal was going to be $300, seriously, she's got to have benefits for that also, because no way root canal is only $300 around here.

I couldn't afford any root canals. had to get what was left of my teeth pulled and that still was impossible to afford so I spent decades in agony from them. And if you can't afford a dentist you can go to a dental school and volunteer. It's painful and poor quality but they can fill a cavity or pull a tooth for free.

6. She complains that she only has her second check of the month to buy her kid nice things, but if she got $15 an hour and lost all her benefits, she would have zero left to buy her kid anything. I know, been there, done that.

Second check? She get's a second check? Who sends out two checks a month??



7. Funny how she even splits her housing price with her sister. My understanding is that you can't have others living with you when you're getting free housing.

And sometimes a sibling needs help. Or you do. Splitting rent is a good way to make ends meet. I've rented out my enclosed porch to one or two of my stepkid's friends and that money Helped me survive and without it I would have been out a house. Even though my payment is $240 a month.


8. She doesn't realize how lucky she is to even have free housing. In Florida, there's usually a two-year waiting period, and will mostly NOT go to whites for some reason.

I did it the hard way, I saved my money for 20 years to have a good enough down payment so my house payment was doable. Thing is, they will never own a house. Cheap rent is hard to find. So they're screwed any way they go. Everyone should save until they can buy a house. Even if it takes 20 years. It will totally be worth it. The funny thing is my house is worth over $100,000 now and I did not buy it anywhere near that. It's almost quadrupled in 7 years.

9. As a side note, those boots look pretty dang pricey.