Comments by "William Cattr" (@williamcattr267) on "" video.
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Cheri Merchant Ok, then candidate making $20,000 a year. Will that do it?
Because evidently you have not earned $40k a year. Subtract taxes and other deductions from that $40k and you will find a much smaller take home than $40k a year. That is the sort of money ($40k a year) that a city worker might make or that a mailman would earn. Not good money at all. And I am speaking from experience.
For $40k a year, they aren't driving Lamborghinis, living in 20,000 square foot mansions on ocean front property either, and they are not out on a 200-foot sailing boat for their water cruising pastimes (with its own captain and chef of course). So yes, compared to the rich, a $40k a year worker is a mere peasant by comparison. Donald Trump’s barber gets more than twice that amount.
I'll go to the other end of the spectrum for a comparison; someone making $80k a year would be more sympathetic towards the poor then some orange-glowing idiot (Captain Bone Spurs) bringing in hundreds of millions per year. See my point?
I can absolutely guarantee you that Nancy Polesi, Donald Trump, Hilary Clinton, Mitch McConnel (any other names I am forgetting?) are not making the paltry sum of $40,000 per year, or even $140k a year. No, they measure their wealth in the millions.
By contrast, I can speak from a platform of experience of making a mere $12,800 a year all the way up to a shade under $50,000 per year (though I am no longer employed in the $50k a year job). And for 2017, I made a whopping $0k per year due to unemployment.
Yes, they can afford to go to prestigious learning institutions like Yale or Harvard or Oxford, while the working class can go to a community or state college.
The point is, I was using $40k a year as the low-end of the spectrum of middle class earning. People in this category (or those making far less) have more in common than the filthy rich in politics. Yes, people that can buy Ferrari's in colors to soothe their boredom. $40,000 per year? That is not even $20 bucks per hour.
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Cheri Merchant
@Cheri Merchant Oh spare me!
Nothing that you have said has served to undermine my point.
You make it like anyone who is in the $40k a year category is living life on the ham with Rolex watches on their wrist and tailored Desmond Merrion men's suits, walking on Testoni oxfords.
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So, let me steer you back to my original point: The rich (and I am talking multi-millionaires) run this country and attain the highest offices in the land, PERIOD!
As I alluded to in my previous post; I have been jobless with $0 income for a year all the way up to almost $50,000 a year (and every wage category in between).
$40k a year ain't jack squat compared to Trump money or the kind of money that Pro Athletes and actors and musicians make. Trump spent $70k a year alone on his disco haircut. And you want to cry a river over the "rich" people making $40,000 a year ($19.23 per hour fulltime btw). Rookie law enforcement and firemen put their necks on the line for around that amount, LOL! Yeah, about the only thing $40k a year will benefit a person is that they won't be on food stamps or on the city bus (I can attest to that). And you make it like they have their own jet liner and Bentley to drive around in and take vacations every other weekend. I'd love to have Patrick Mahommes money at $40 million a year! Now that is some money! That is like $5,000 an hour compared to $19.23 an hour!
Yet he would pay the SAME amount of money that I would for a Big Mac and fries! 🤣
Anyways, Sheri... If you are so down and out in "poverty" living in America, then go take a civil service job and get that $40k a year. Yeah, because if you really want "to go there" with your concept of so-called poverty and living on $750 a month on ssi, then consider that YOU are rich compared to someone living in a third world country who has no access to running water or sanitation or even toilet paper to wipe their backsides (they don’t have ssi to fall back on like you). I know for the entire year that I got $0.00 per hour (for a grand total of $0K for the year of 2017) I didn't get the benefit of ssi! No, by no means; the only way I was able to float along during this difficult time period was to cash out my pension (which I earned the old fashion way; I worked for it) to make ends meet and keep a roof over my head and food on the table.
Try getting a job in the $40,000 a year category and then we will see how much money is left over after taxes for extravagant vacations indulging in the finest cuisines and wines, buying sports cars and 200 foot luxury boats on ocean front property that you seem to think people in this earning category make. 🤦♂
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Cheri Merchant That is exactly it! Millionaires who live millionaire lifestyles. Isn't that who I said runs the country??? I only suggested someone more down to earth to take the place of the millionaires who do not understand (or flat out don't care) about the plight of working-class Americans.
You seemed to take issue with my suggestion of someone earning $40k a year to replace the rich that run America. This was just an arbitrary figure on my part. It could easily be someone earning $8.90 an hour on 20 hours a week. In any event, who cares if it is $40k a year, $80k a year, $200k a year, or a person living on a HUD property with money earned at Arby's at minimum wage. Anyone in these categories is NOT in Trump's (or Mike Bloomberg's) category of extravagance and profligacy! Nancy Pelosi is worth a cool $80 million and she didn't earn and save up based on $40,000 a year, you can be sure of that! These Washington fat cats would cry that they are poor if they earned only a measly $200,000 a year! Only the ultra-rich run this country, and I want you to understand that (or at least acknowledge it).
So, I guess you didn't like my idea of having everyday people run this country instead of the rich, correct? So, we will just leave it as it is and let the rich (those that measure their wealth in the tens of millions) continue to run this country. Well, in that case, they will continue to make life "better" for you as Trump has, right? Because the rich have always done so much for you compared to average Americans (sarcasm).
But as I said before, YOU (yes, YOU) are rich in your current economic status than someone in some third world country. Do you think someone in Nigeria or Ethiopia has it as good as you and eats as good as you do?? If they could switch places with you, they would think they died and went to "money paradise." The rats in America eat better than do some humans in this world with what gets discarded in the dumpsters behind any restaurant or grocery store!
Yes, you can fall back on SSI and HUD and HEAP benefits and have access to clean running water. People in these parts of the world fetch their cooking and drinking water from the same creek that they wash in (and animals access this water supply too).
And I got news for you; a person making $40,000 a year in California or New York city is dirt poor. Perhaps in the Midwest like Ohio or Indiana $40,000 a year will carry you along a good distance. But if you think you'll be driving a brand-new Corvette and living in a 4,000 square foot home or apartment in Ohio....DREAM ON! The wage isn’t that good. Look, $40k a year was terrific money back in say 2005.
Go take a civil service test for your State, County, or City and get the $40,000 a year job. It is not that difficult. Consider the following as general prerequisites:
1. Can you perform simple math?
2. Can you read and write?
3. Can you pass a background check?
4. Can you pass a drug/alcohol screen
5. Can you follow simple instructions?
If you answered "yes" to the above, you got a solid shot at a civil service job in the $40k a year (maybe more if you have a college degree and relatable experience).
Even a city transit bus driver after 5 years makes $30 per hour, which comes out to just over $60,000 a year. Forget about $40k a year, these guys (and women) get paid well to drive up and down the same streets all day for 8 hours at a time.
Go back to school and make yourself a more viable candidate! If you are poor, you get up to $50,000 in Pell grants! Or stay as you are and continue to think that $40,000 a year is awesome money, because it sure isn’t! You almost sound like my grandparents who thought that $6.50 an hour was great money...ohhhhhhhhhh back in 1956! That kind of money in 2020 will land you in a tent under a highway bridge somewhere. I tell ya, there will come a time one day when $50 per hour is going to be the functional equivalent of $9.00 an hour today! Hard to imagine, I know, but it will come to pass. Yes, in the year 2250, a new car (nothing fancy) will probably run someone $175,000. And a Corvette for that year (assuming GM is still around), it will probably go for $700,000. And NFL quarterback salaries??? It sure won't be $40 million a year! IT SURE WON'T! It will probably be $200 to $300 million a year. And to think that Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins back in the early 1980's got around a million bucks a year.
And consider that a G.I. back in WW2 made $50 a month as a private! But back then you could get a new car for less than $900.00 (and gas at 21 cents a gallon) and a steak dinner would be less than a buck! You can't get a meal deal like that even at Golden Corral nowadays.
Stop trying to sound like I don't know what poor is????? Were you not listening? For 2017, I made ZERO dollars due to unemployment! Can you beat that??? ZERO DOLLARS ($0,000)! Didn't find a job until March of 2018. And it was not until May of this year that I got 40 hours a week! I know all too well. I have been in your wage category (and less) and I have been in the $50,000 a year category as well.
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