‘McJobless in Seattle’: $15 to $17 Hourly Min. Wage = $0 Hour Wage In The Real World

[71buickfreak]

I can't believe California has that low if minimum wage. Their cost of living is through the roof. People here need to look at that and maybe they won't feels no bad making $7.25 with our cost of living. I always thought that when we got into the 2000's and beyond that we would be living like back to the future part 2. Sadly we are no where near that. Lol. I am still waiting for my hover board and automatic lacing Nike's!!

Yeah, those are here.

http://hendohover.com/

and

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/12/ms-back-to-the-future-2-shoe-release.html

 

[71buickfreak]

You bring up some interesting points....the issue is, the disease gripping this country for the past 50-60 years is liberal progressive big.gov. The fruits of their labor just happen to be coming to a head right now and why it's almost no holds barred with what we as a country are witnessing them doing. The elites start a class war NOT to make things more equal for their fellow humans, but to protect the wealth of the elites by getting the population to want more taxes and regulations to help the poor. But it takes all that money and power and gives it to the elites. Obama sold his entire administration around distribution of wealth from the elites to the poor. Now this country has a faltering middle class, more poor, and more wealthy people. That is socialism. Obama has created more poor and protected the wealth of the elites with an entire country inspired to root him on through his lies of helping people. Look at California which I have personal experience dealing with. In the past 7 years, the insanity of what is currently going on in that state started to come to fruition (really, it's been going on for longer than that but it was about 7 years ago when the cost of living in CA started to really skyrocket). It started by the state being sold on helping the poor, taxing the rich, saving the environment. When things started coming to a head, I noticed stark changes. What used to be a pretty neat place to live morphed into a whole lot of middle class families moving out because the cost of living skyrocketed because of the constant tax and fee hikes, artificial raising the of cost of energy (you know, for global warming prevention California style), everything just skyrocketed as a result of government intervention sold as helping the poor and the environment and all it did was destroy the middle class. Normal people simply couldn't afford it so they started moving out....or worse, they stayed and became poor themselves. Even now, when my wife and I call our few friends who decided to stay in California....they're all living with their parents because they don't make enough at $100,000 per year to live any sort of decent life. It's insane. Then, after all the middle class started moving out, all the rich folks started moving in and things got even more expensive. Then more homeless people started coming in to mooch off the rich or the middle class that stayed became poor. So what used to be a healthy mix of lower, middle and upper class is now lots of homeless and Mazeratis. The middle class has been removed. The rich are now a stronghold. It's been sterilized. Now, you go talk to the average lib and they'll tell you how it's evil corporations that are doing it. Well, in a way they're right. That evil corporation is government. But that average lib is clamoring for even more government intervention. That's why libs are the stupidest people on earth because they allowed people like this to stay in power and to take everything from them (and you and me) in the name of helping, in the name of political correctness.

Wake up and fight hard, folks. Fight very hard against modern liberal progressives. WA, OR and CO have completely changed because of ex-Californians moving there and turning those locations to the left. What you're seeing in Seattle is a result of ex-Californian liberals who, after ruining California, moved to Seattle and brought their politics with them. The notion of helping people is great. The notion of government doing it by raising taxes means the government will be taken over by criminals who lie to get higher taxes in order to enrich their own lives and the elites who keep them in power. The poor will not be helped. The middle class will be destroyed. The elites get richer. WAKE UP.

I am an automotive journalist, been freelancing since 2003 for hot rod, car craft, etc. Now I own my own magazine. In 2012, I turned down an offer to be an associate editor at Hot Rod magazine. It required me to move to LA for 45k a year. I would be moving from OK making less than I already did AND doubling or tripling my COL. I have a wife and 3 kids, dream job or not, I had to say no. So now I am the guy who turned down a job at Hot Rod. still shake my head over that.

 

[MaddSkillz]

I can't believe California has that low if minimum wage. Their cost of living is through the roof. People here need to look at that and maybe they won't feels no bad making $7.25 with our cost of living. I always thought that when we got into the 2000's and beyond that we would be living like back to the future part 2. Sadly we are no where near that. Lol. I am still waiting for my hover board and automatic lacing Nike's!!

I can't believe you'd think a corporation would ever cheat employees for profit. The nerve!

 

[Okey-Dokey]

You were very smart to do so. $45K in LA is like $15K per year in Oklahoma. That's not an exaggeration.

 

[71buickfreak]

You were very smart to do so. $45K in LA is like $15K per year in Oklahoma. That's not an exaggeration.

Exactly. I figured I needed 80-85k to be comparable here. I missed out on some opportunities, but hey, that's OK. I probably would have been fired when Source Interlink killed a bunch of mags anyway. The kicker of it is that the guy who took the job is now the cohost of Roadkill, the Hot Rod web show. Oh well.

 

[Okey-Dokey]

80-85K in LA is nothing and will land you in a crappy apartment with low quality of life (but you can surf and ski in the same day ;-). We have friends making north of $200k per year who can't afford a house in LA that fits their expectations. In the nicer areas, $850K in LA will get you a fix-me-upper that needs a $50K renovation or you can buy a $550K home in an area where you'll occasionally be shot at. We were around $100K per year there and we were living in a crappy apartment with very little we could actually do because we spent everything on living. It's not just housing that's expensive there. Because of the artificially high cost of energy and taxes (for saving the children and the environment), everything you buy there costs more money. When I bought a 42" HDTV there we got tagged with a $50 state of CA fee for future recycling fees....or some hogwash like that. The insanity is mind boggling.