Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Oprah Wrong?
Apparently Oprah did a show recently on the "horrors" of living on minimum wage. Well, not surprisingly, it was completely one-sided and riddled with errors. Here is some truth on the minimum wage. The main truth is the segment of society that the minimum wage is supposedly supposed to help is the one it hurts the most.
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"Thirty million Americans who work full time are living in poverty. The federal minimum wage in the United States is $5.15 an hour and has not been raised in almost 10 years.
Someone working full time at minimum wage earns $10,712 a year—that's $8,000 less than what the government defines as poverty.
Why should you care? These are the very people we rely on every day. They are the teachers' aides in your child's classroom. They are caring for your aging parents in the nursing home. They make sure your hotel rooms, your offices and your schools are clean. They are security guards keeping buildings safe. They are paramedics who are there in your most desperate hour."
I copied this from Oprah's website. I don't know if i'm reading it wrong but it looks like she said that 30 million people that work full time are living in poverty, not that they make $5.15 an hour.
He doesn't quote her website, he quotes what was said on the show. I'm sure tons more people watch her show than go to her website.
Does she give a source for her data? The article sites sources and goes into lots of details. Without sources it is just a random number that can be very misleading and that still doesn't address all the other info in the article.
So, nice try...but that's a no go in response to the article.
It scares me how much influence Oprah has. Time Magazine did a magazine recently on the 100 most influential people or something like that. They listed her pretty high as a leader. Yikes!!
I think she is probably genuinely mislead on a lot of issues but the problem is she has a lot of influence. I stopped watching her a long time ago for many reasons. I have friends that still watch her that keep me in the loop.
I agree...she has MAJOR influence and uses it to push the liberal agenda. I was home one afternoon a few months ago and happened to surf by when she was doing a "global warming" segment. It was so incredibly one-sided that I was shouting at the TV (that happens a lot when I watch TV...lol) and even took the time to write an email via her website, which of course never got a response back.
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