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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
Ok, so your opinion is that it's fake because you just dont believe it. Thats cool, everyone has an opinion 
I found the minimum wage show to be absolutely believable and accurate. It doesnt take a scientist to know that $5.25 an hour, for 40 hours, does not give you a large savings to have 2 emergency room visits within 30 days and not have a severe impact on your finances. Point was made easily. One emergency room visit was $500 for the uninsured. And thats just walking in the door money.
And he used his niece and nephew to illustrate that a typical family with kids has it even tougher. As you might remember, he only spent like $10 on them at one store, and his wife gave him hell for it because their finances were so tight. That happens all the time in real life dont you think?
What were they supposed to film? Should he have gone to a local tv station with his resume and gotten a high paying consultant job for 30 days? What would that have shown about the countries typical minimum wage earner? *that* would have been staged IMHO |
you seem to be missing the point... i am not saying that it was not "accurate" in terms of medical costs, living expenses etc. ANY CLOWN can understand that if two adults HAD to live on minimum wage (which they dont for any real period of time), that life would be difficult and barely survive. it wasn't a must that he had to go to the doctor for his supposed "wrist injury". nor was it for his wife her "cold". it definately wasn't something to prevent him from working and convienently cause lost wages. it wasn't a must that they take care of their neices/nephews while filming a show about trying to live in absolute poverty. it was a perfect coincidence that one was having a birthday which warranted celebrating with lunch and a movie and put them back in the red fnancially... the list goes on. it was staged every step of the way and done in a way to make a Michael Moore type political point. pure and simple.