have you seen 30 days with morgan spurlock...about living on mim wage

[greenbriar]

in it he and his girl try to live 30 days on min wage jobs...they realize it is shit

then they talk about Kennedy introducing a bill every year to raise min wage and always gets defeated.


IF the congress had to live truly on min wage, they would change their minds...

[ernstbass]

1. That is a great series

and that episode was very enlightening.

[RubyDuby in GA]

2. It was the first of the series and I think the best one

It's disturbing and it shows that if you're poor, 9 times out of 10 you will not get a break in this country.

That is a great series. I'm looking forward to new ones.

[greenbriar]

4. he also mentioned Kennedy trying to get increases

and talks about the strain and breakups in mostly poor americans because of money

[SeattleGirl]

3. That was a great episode

I think the best part, in terms of illustrating how difficult it is to live on minimum wage, is when they both had to have medical care, and did not have insurance. It showed so clearly how even a realatively minor medical problem can cause major financial problems for people who live on minimum wage and have no insurance.

[AlCzervik]

5. yes, that was the first episode i think of his show, it was very good

and very real.

[TNOE]

6. Great show

it should be shown in every high school classroom in America. And all Freepers should be forced to watch in their re-education programs as soon as the Dems take over.

Is this show still on?

[greenbriar]

7. not sure, but I saved the min wage one

and plan to have my high school kids watch it as soon as I can get the right media player

[progressivebydesign]

8. Um.. most of us have done that for 30 years. BFD. n/t

[greenbriar]

9. yea,but this was in your face reality and it was painfully true

and it seemed appropriate that it be mentioned again.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. If I recall correctly, Pinhead** vetoed six bills to raise the min. wage

in Texas while he was Gov. If Congress had to foot their own health care premiums, they would change their minds about a National Health Care system. Hypocrites!

[greenbriar]

11. that is so true

so true

[thinkingwoman]

12. I watched it...but I also lived it

in Indiana in 1995 and 1996 with two children. My then new husband and I managed to feed and house 2 kids (from my 1st marriage) with no child support and often no car. We worked minimum wage jobs and ate a lot of PB&Js and rice.

Watching the spurlock's brought back memories but it also had the 4 of us calling them whiners. Seriously. They only did 30 days and they knew that at the end of that time they could go back to their regular lives and financies.

We did years.