Shake that thing!

[cyrano]

I now have all six episodes of 'Thirty Days'. I was just struck by the factoid that families that make under $25K a year are twice as likely to divorce. So... sanctity of marriage people, how about a raise in the minimum wage law to preserve marriage? Or a more healthy and robust public welfare system? Think of the children!

Watched 'Last Boy Scout' and 'Presumed Innocent' this weekend. Netflix Noir Film Festival. (: I really enjoyed both of them--very different but at the same time very similar. Each gets four wags.

I got to see my friend Anne (who is now a teacher in Bakersfield) and help her with her lesson plan yesterday, even if I was sad and lame lying on my back guy.

Sitting on the couch very quietly, currently on the 'heat' of the 'heat and cold' programme. The heat is a sticky pad so it's going to hurt to remove it. Plus I'll have to get off the couch to get the freezy thing. I'm not in a big rush. (:

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Looks like, according to wikipedia (not neccessarily a trusted source), You can expect to make $10,300 a year on federal minimum. So both parents working full time would be making over $20 before taxes (and before childcare unless they have kids who are old enough to not go to school and stay home to take care of the kids).

But yeah. It'd be nice to be able to tell who needed the help and who's just slacking.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... sorry I live In California... I forget our Minimum wage is much Higher than the federal Minimum... lemmie see... in 2001 the federal minimum wage was increased to $6.25 from 4.75 that it was brought to in 1997. That means in 1997 the pre-taxed pay for one person working full time was at LEAST $9880. In 2001 it was raised to $13,000.

Yeah, Momma and daddy need to be gettin' better than minimum wage jobs... then again, people who, in their adult lives, married and with children who one parent doesn't work and the other parent is working a minimum wage job... have a LOT more problems than just the money they are bringing in.

Most people who just need help are too prideful to take advantage of government assistance... *sighs*

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And, in the end, my dry and satiric point was not that we need a more generous welfare state but that--again--I think that if the people who say they're concerned with The Family and Sanctity Of Marriage have more effective things that they could be focusing on than gay marriage. In my opinion.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Bah. With proper english usage:

And, in the end, my dry and satiric point was not that we need a more generous welfare state but that--again--I think that if the people who say they're concerned with The Family and Sanctity Of Marriage are concerned with those things, they have more effective things that they could be focusing on than gay marriage. In my opinion.