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<blockquote data-quote="beardking" data-source="post: 4125915" data-attributes="member: 31421"><p>Exactly. People come in here complaining about the raising of the minimum wage while also complaining about their latest trip to the grocery store. The minimum wage was designed to be the minimum a person could make and survive. At $7.25/hr, no one can survive with the current cost of things. Even working 3 full time jobs. Then, if you take a look at a comparison of the cost of living from OKC to LA, that'll put it in a bit more of a perspective on why a $20/hr min wage is needed in CA. Almost 78% higher to live in LA vs OKC. Sure, you can always say "well just move out of that horrible liberal state, then things will all be better." Except, they won't, because the cost of living throughout the country has gone up. And I don't know if any of you have noticed, but it's not showing any signs of going down anytime soon. </p><p></p><p>If you look at the comparisons below, across the board almost everything is significantly more expensive in CA. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414582[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414583[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414584[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Then, if you compare rent rates in OKC from 2013 to 2022 you'll see a definite uptick in the cost just to continue living in OKC.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]414585[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>I swear, some of the people on this board seem to be stuck back in the old days when it was actually feasible to have a single income family with multiple kids, owning a house and actually go on vacations a couple times a year. And if you are lucky enough to have lived back then and smart enough to have made the proper financial investments to be able to coast through the rest of your lives without being affected by what the trying to make a living on minimum wage provide, then I'm happy for you. But just remember, time doesn't stand still and neither does inflation. The only thing that seems to stand still is the minimum wage and it has for 14 years, while the cost of living itself continues it's upward climb.</p><p></p><p>I would think that as many of the people on this board have children and grandchildren, that they would want the future to look brighter for them. H8ll, I don't have children and never will, I and my wife (luckily) make well above minimum wage and yet I believe that something definitely needs to be done to increase the livability in this country for future generations. Everyone wants the youth to "get out there and pull themselves up by their boot straps," but it seems like everyone also wants to keep them from having boot straps to begin with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beardking, post: 4125915, member: 31421"] Exactly. People come in here complaining about the raising of the minimum wage while also complaining about their latest trip to the grocery store. The minimum wage was designed to be the minimum a person could make and survive. At $7.25/hr, no one can survive with the current cost of things. Even working 3 full time jobs. Then, if you take a look at a comparison of the cost of living from OKC to LA, that'll put it in a bit more of a perspective on why a $20/hr min wage is needed in CA. Almost 78% higher to live in LA vs OKC. Sure, you can always say "well just move out of that horrible liberal state, then things will all be better." Except, they won't, because the cost of living throughout the country has gone up. And I don't know if any of you have noticed, but it's not showing any signs of going down anytime soon. If you look at the comparisons below, across the board almost everything is significantly more expensive in CA. [ATTACH type="full"]414582[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]414583[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]414584[/ATTACH] Then, if you compare rent rates in OKC from 2013 to 2022 you'll see a definite uptick in the cost just to continue living in OKC. [ATTACH type="full"]414585[/ATTACH] I swear, some of the people on this board seem to be stuck back in the old days when it was actually feasible to have a single income family with multiple kids, owning a house and actually go on vacations a couple times a year. And if you are lucky enough to have lived back then and smart enough to have made the proper financial investments to be able to coast through the rest of your lives without being affected by what the trying to make a living on minimum wage provide, then I'm happy for you. But just remember, time doesn't stand still and neither does inflation. The only thing that seems to stand still is the minimum wage and it has for 14 years, while the cost of living itself continues it's upward climb. I would think that as many of the people on this board have children and grandchildren, that they would want the future to look brighter for them. H8ll, I don't have children and never will, I and my wife (luckily) make well above minimum wage and yet I believe that something definitely needs to be done to increase the livability in this country for future generations. Everyone wants the youth to "get out there and pull themselves up by their boot straps," but it seems like everyone also wants to keep them from having boot straps to begin with. [/QUOTE]
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