Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "AJ+" channel.

  1. -The woman featured says she's making "4-5-6 dollars over minimum wage". Minimum wage in Alabama is $7.25 so she makes between $11.25 and $13.25/hour. Working 40 hours a week, that will average out around $490/week, or about $2100/month. - A quick search shows lots of apartments in Huntsville, AL for under $800/month. Some as low as $550.- So housing would cost her 1/4 to 1/3 of her monthly salary. Isn't that pretty normal? Her situation is almost identical to mine in terms of salary and cost. But I've never been without a place to live. Mind you, where I am, there are no homeless shelters, so I'd literally be on the street and sleeping on the street is illegal, so that wouldn't work.
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  2. I disagree with the idea that viewers in the US and the west in general simply let themselves be spoonfed certain opinions and take those as gospel. What is my evidence? All the commenters here and people elsewhere who hold differing views. Why were we/they not persuaded by the mainstream news? Are we better or smarter than those who disagree with us? I don't think we necessarily are. There exists an endless amount of news and opinion online of all possible views, and anyone who thinks people are easily manipulated are having a harder and harder time doing that. And finally, everybody seems to think that others are easily manipulated, but they never think that they themselves are easily manipulated.
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  3.  @daisyo.6666  I couldn't afford to have 4 children with my income, so I decided not to.
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