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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
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.
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I remember president bushes quote about moore, "If I want to see a work of fiction, I'll watch Shrek 2".
My point was that the message is the important thing, not the messenger or delivery of the message.
If I immediately discounted every attempt to get a point across because I distrust someone or someones motives, well.. I would ignore everything that comes out of the mouths of most people in high office.
But thats not very smart if I want to actually learn something, and see something from someone elses point of view.
And setting all of that aside, if "30 days" is poitically motivated but accurately portrays a certain set of circumstances and illustrates a need to change.. what difference does it make exactly? None that I can tell. Minimum wage is too low for republicans and democrats.