Midknight Review -- new and revised: Somebody thinks this is news: "Minimum wage job will not pay for two bedroom apartment." Shocker !!! Here's another headline: "Only 3% of the work force earns a minimum wage."

In California, the minimum wage is $8.00 an hour and 13% of its work force earns that amount. [New York's minimum wage work force is 12.5% of the total working population]. Understand that the national workforce is 163 million strong [including California]. Only 5.5 million work for minimum wage or 4% of the total labor force. Minimum wage was never designed to be a "living wage." Jobs that pay minimum wage are "entry level jobs" and are intended to be filled by the young, the first time employee and the [very] unskilled.

Understand that a young married couple, working for minimum wage, takes home close to $1,700 per month, after taxes. School aged children get free breakfast and lunch, in most states, if such is needed. The schooling, itself, is free. In California, where this editor lives, there are free health clinics scattered throughout the state and most hospitals have ER facilities designed to receive the working poor. ObamaCare, contrary to what we are all being told, will not end this situation.

The average annual wage is 39,300 per year or just under $19.00 per hour, before taxes. Two people earning the average wage, make $79,000 per year.

We conclude that the wage scale is not the problem -- getting and keeping a job is the larger issue.

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The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Somebody thinks this is news: "Minimum wage job will not pay for two bedroom apartment." Shocker !!! Here's another headline: "Only 3% of the work force earns a minimum wage."

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