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Why do liberals attempt to distinguish "economic" from "cultural" issues?
Isn't it plain for all to see that illegitimacy and divorce cause poverty? An intact family actually can live quite comfortably, indeed more comfortably than the vast majority of the world's population, on the minimum wage.
Remember, if Dad works 60 hours a week at McDonalds, he gets paid for 70 because of overtime. He won't have to buy much food for himself, only his family. Minimum wage in MD is $6.15 per hour. Being a low-wage family man, he will pay no taxes, so he should bring home $1700 a month. That is enough for food, bus fare, and rent is it not? You may have to use hand-me-downs and shop at the thrift store, but you will not suffer any real privation. Heck, you could probably even afford a basic major medical health insurance plan.
Really, I don't understand liberals and their failure to recognize the central role of marriage and the family in ensuring economic welfare for all. Help me understand.
You all seem to be proceeding from the assumption that I think it is possible for a single person to raise a family on minimum wage. I know that is not the case. I am talking about an intact family. In Baltimore, you can easily rent a 2 bedroom apartment for $1000 a month. That leaves 700 for food and clothes. Remember, you don't need to pay for a babysitter when the wife stays home.
In the alternative, the Father can work nights and the mother can work days. That way, the couple gets paid for 80 hours a week. That comes to nearly $2000 a month, and yes there would still be time leftover for trade school for both parents.
Please, I'm not trying to be mean, I just don't understand how we can solve poverty, which disproportionately affects women and children, without addressing marital breakdown.
Whoever said private health insurance is $300 a month for an individual needs to do some research. Remember, I'm not talking about the best possible coverage. I'm talking about basic major medical coverage.
Also, you're all quoting me what you pay for rent which is fine, but the fact is that if you were poorer you would have to live in a less expensive neighborhood. It may not be the nicest neighborhood in town, but then if liberals would allow people to keep guns in their houses to protect their families and put cops on the streets it wouldn't be an issue now would it? Law and order would go a long way toward making less desireable neighborhoods more desireable. Once again, liberals are wrong.
As to the issue of whether a minimum-wage family man pays taxes, I am almost certain his tax liability would be zero.
But if it isn't, it should be. I don't hear any liberals clamouring for tax breaks, though.
Dear Twilight, I can't show you a Mickey D's employee who works 60 hours a week. I am an attorney, because I busted my @ss for 7 years, studying more than 80 a week sometimes, plus doing internships over the summer, exactly so I wouldn't have these problems.
Dear Jerry,
I agree with you that moral decay infects all classes of society. I'm not saying that only the poor are immoral or even that they are more immoral than others. Its just that they are more vulnerable to the consequences of immorality.
Dear Michael S.
That's rubbish. My husband and I stayed together during three years of extreme poverty AND law school AND the bar exam. You just have to be committed.
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Health insurance very confused?
What is the difference between limited benefit health insurance, and basic health insurance and major medical health insurance? And which is best. I have all kinds of people offering me limited benefit insurance that sounds too good to be true. A hundred dollar deductible is a dream, yet this is what they are promising. I'm trying to do my research before i get screwed. Thanks for the help.
So basically a deductible is nothing more than an amount you pay if seriously injured and admitted into the hospital right? So you don't have to pay the deductible if you never get hurt or admitted into the hospital, or if you're just going to see the doctor for a routine check up? What if i get a stomach ache or flu, do i have to pay the deductible then? I'm sorry but i'm a dummy when it comes to insurance.
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