Posted on 07/28/2013 7:52:27 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
A few words about the McBudget.
Perhaps you’ve heard of it. As fast food workers around the country protest for higher wages, we learn that McDonald’s offers advice to help them live on the wages they make which, while not technically bupkes, do amount to a paycheck you can pretty much have the driver cash for you on the bus ride home. In December, for example, Bloomberg profiled a Chicago man who, after 20 years with the burger giant, earns $8.25 an hour — and doesn’t get 40 hours a week. This, as McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson pulled down, according to the Wall Street Journal, a compensation package worth $13.8 million last year.
Anyway, Mickey D’s isn’t blind to the difficulties of french fry makers and drive-through order takers getting by on not quite bupkes. It partnered with Visa on a showing how to live reasonably well on next to nothing.
The impossibility of doing so has been attested to by everyone from writer Barbara Ehrenreich in her book Nickel and Dimed to noted obstetrician Cliff Huxtable, in that episode of The Cosby Show where he uses Monopoly money to teach young Theo the value of a good income. It has also been attested to by the people trying to do it. But all that notwithstanding, the McBudget insists it can be done.
It envisions monthly take-home pay of $2,060 from working two (!) jobs. Out of that, you pay $600 for rent, $150 for a car note, $100 for insurance (home and auto), $100 for cable and phone, $90 for the electric bill, $20 for health insurance, etc. You save $100 a month and have $750 to play with — if, by “play,” you mean...
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In twenty years he should have made it to manager.
The dude likely had no further ambition.
Actually Mr Pitts many of today's poor do need lessons on how NOT to be poor.
Graduate from high school knowing how to read,write and comprehend basic math.
Get a job.
Show up for that job every day on time.
Do your job to the best of your ability.
Do not have children out of wedlock.
Do not commit crimes.
Do not drink to excess (at least not on school nights).
Do not abuse drugs.
Do not spend your hard earned minimum wage or welfare money on frivolous and unecessary things.
Learn to be self sufficient.
Get a better job.
Keep in mind that 9 times out of ten whatever happens in your life is your fault.
Then the man is stupid to stay there.
Neal Boortz simplified this even more....
1. Graduate high school.
2. Don’t have kids before you get married.
3. Don’t do drugs.
Doing these three things won’t guarantee success, but they’ll pretty much ensure that you won’t fail.
Some people have 20 years of experience—and some people have a year of experience twenty times.
Wow!!! McDonald’s must have really super good benefits to have $20 per month health insurance.
Someone can't spell. Yeah, my spell checker doesn't have it listed either, but it's "bupkis". Wonder how many freepers know the origin of this word.
Yep.
All you who have those low electric bills, I hate (Just kidding) :D
Mine was almost 500 last month, but there are a number of health issues with people and pets who live with me that make it necessary to keep the AC at 72 degrees.
You do what you gotta do I guess.
bump
most everyone could avoid long term poverty simply by:
finishing high school
not having a kid before/without marriage
not abusing drugs
not going into student loan oblivion
When Bush was in office, they were called McJobs.
In the Baraqqi "new normal", fast food is a career.
Other suggestions:
Obamacare “guide”,
Hillary 2016 campaign staff (cute female interns preferred)
Harvesting shredded poultry downstream from wind turbines
Solar panel washer
Gas station attendant (after Baraq takes NJ’s law national)
Bank teller (after Baraq outlaws ATMs)
Ethanol plant technician
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