why isn't minimum wage enough? [NOW WITH THE MATH TO BACK IT UP!]

So many people have always tried to say you can't live of minimum wage. But who has ever TRULY done the math? Now i can say that i have. This is done for people on ssi at the max amount allowed. It should be noted that the max allowed a month before you lose ALL your benefits is 1130.00 a month,
Cite for reference here: http://www.nolo.com/
So here goes:

1130.00 (1129.00) a month before losing money.
733.00 max ssi
Able to work Monday through Friday
200 a month to cover food.

5.43 an hour minimum wage (after taxes)
396.00 maximum allowed income
99.00 a week
19.80 a day
3 hours 40 minutes a day (7.25 an hour, minus taxes  [1.81])
18 hours 20 minutes a week (3 hours times five days, 40 minutes times 5 [200 minutes. 200 divided by 60 equals 3.33, or 3 hours 20 minutes])
Mortgage 520.00
Total max allowed 609 (Max safe amount 213.00, Max allowed before deductions 396.00)
152.25 a week
30.45 a day
5 hours 36 minutes a day (7.25 an hour, minus taxes  [1.81])
28 hours a week (5 hours times five days [25], 36 minutes times 5 [180 minutes. 180 divided by 60 equals 3 hours])

396.00 maximum allowed income
99.00 a week
19.80 a day
2 hours 15 minutes a day (7.25 an hour)
11 hours 15 minutes a week (2 hours times five days [10], 15 minutes times 5 [75 minutes, or 1 hour 15 minutes])
Mortgage 520.00
Total max allowed 609 (Max safe amount 213.00, Max allowed before deductions 396.00)
152.25 a week
30.45 a day
4 hours 12 minutes a day (7.25 an hour)
21 hours a week (4 hours times five days [20], 12 minutes times 5 [60 minutes]

After taxes max income allowed (5.43 am hour):
Minimum of 18 hours 20 minutes a week,  (before i start to lose ssi)
Maximum of 28 hours a week. (Before i lose the money for the mortgage)

Before taxes max income allowed (7.25 an hour):
Minimum of 11 hours 15 minutes a week (before i start to lose ssi)
Maximum of 21 hours a week. (Before i lose the money for the mortgage)

Now let's calculate for minimum wage in its entirety:
Before taxes:
1130 a month
282.50 a week
56.50 a day
7 hours 48 minutes a day (56.50/7.25 [an hour]=7.8 hours [8=4/5=12x4=48])
10:00 am to 6 pm
39 hours a week

After taxes:
1130 a month
282.50 a week
56.50 a day
10 hours 24 minutes a day (56.50/5.24 [an hour]=10.40 hours [4=2/5=12×2=24])
52 hours a week

So IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

if the founding fathers were alive today

if our founding fathers were alive today what would the first thing they say about what our nation has become?

1. what are liberals and conservatives? and why do the two groups divide the whole nation we so dearly fought to join together?
2. why is the press covering news about our nations relationship with britain? we worked so hard to break away from them yet now we ally ourselves with them?
3. we went to the moon?!
4. with how much effort we put into righteously flying our countries flag without persecution, how could you allow your own people to use the flag that fought against us in public display?
5. this nation is a republic you idiots!
6. why did you put "in god we trust" on the money if you are just going to take it down?
7. they are muslim and want to be american? all the more better! let them into our nation!
8. your job is to serve your country, we didnt get paid to do it and neither should you. the continental congress is a position of honor and duty meant to make decisions that affect our great nation as a whole. not a cess pool to lie in and complain about how your poor decisions, stupidity, and greed have resulted in so many poor and homeless people.
9. really? dentures?! well damn, im going to the dentist!
10. why is my name all over the nations beer?

questions that keep me up at night:


how do bacteria communicate to one another, and do they have racist bacteria? 

what if humans evolved from dung beetles or rubber trees? 

if you somehow fell through the center of the earth with nothing to stop you, would you simply yoyo up and down for all eternity? 

what would happen if you hooked a cathedor up to a party baloon inflation tank? 

what if we lived in a world where being gay was the most common thing and straight people were treated as we treated gays and lesbians? 

if the sky were the ground and the ground the sky, what would the purpose of outer space be?

if humans evolved from apes, why is the animal with the closest anatomical structure to a human being a pig? 

and if athiests dont believe in gods or an afterlife, why do they get pissed off when people tell them their lives have no meaning?

when someone says "i dont mean to be [insert judgemental subject here]" why is the next thing out of their mouth "[insert judgemental subject once more]"?

if everyones doing it why am i NOT?

if a ballon gets depressed does that mean it needs some blow to get high again?

can animals talk to each other?

why do dogs always bark at the mailman, even newborn puppies?

why do dogs hate the ups guy more than the mailmen?

why is a womans menstration cycle called a "period"? periods are the end of a sentence, or a specific segment in time. why use something that both describes an abrupt end AND a long winded extensive collection of time where god knows what may have happened, to describe a woman defocating the lining of her internal egg sack?

why are the reproductive organs called "gonads"? seriously?! "go"..."nads"...its like something a guy yells watching the game on tv. "go! nads! go! nads!" also REALLY"?! were calling our reproductive organs "gonads". its like some sexist male scientist just sat down one day, looked between his legs, then thought of sex and thought, "hey, lets call them 'gonads' cause when they are being used those 'nads are gonna get going!"

if someone from the 1950's came from the past to see the future.... [or, im only explaining it once!]

questions that would be hard to explain to a time traveler from the 1950's...

• "its not bribery! its a corporate bail out!"
• "yes, you heard me right we lost his brain. we dont know how it happened but we lost his brain".
• "no! no! stupid! its pronounced 'i can has cheezeburger.' say it right!"

"no. russia is not a smoldering crater. actually nobody won."

"we landed on the moon. what is so hard to believe about that?"

"yes he's white now.."
"dont complain to me that theres over 2000 channels and nothing to watch..."

"obama care my old friend.."
"yes i know she cant act... wait what?! you like this movie?! team edward?! why you little!..."
"no its not a disease. you cant treat it and they have equal rights now. yes...THEM too."
"do you happen to know how they wiped out smallpox? no? what about polio? the black plague?"
"you want someone to blame? blame HIM...no you idot, his SON."
"well its called 'common core'..."
"no they dont fly, yes i know we went to the moon; look we are far from that...yes we still have strip clubs and cigarettes..."
"studio 54 died awhiile ago."
"no, its a metaphorical ceiling"
"yes they outlawed it. around 2013."
"its a show about a talking bear and i think the stage crew from the cheech and chong shows."
"because its fox's oldest running animated show. no, he doesnt get more stupid each year, that would imply he was smart to begin with."
"i dont know either, the last two fix made were just as bad."
"no, actually he brought the priests to trial and supports gay marraige."
"its a show about the fruit god tossed out of eden, i think." 
"stop doing cocaine!"
"its called an apple ma- hey! stop trying to eat my computer!"
"i know its named after dessert foods! that doesnt make it edible!"

pokemon z game rumors

So the rumours are out. Apparently there are some new pokemon to be released that have yet to be shown. As of now there are several pokemon not made public to the gaming community. Volcanion (awater and fire user..yeah flaming water, what the hell?) And hoopa (a genie in bottle with bad temper) and one unnamed pokemon only revealed lately. Also two moves not yet released in the games, yet still in serebii.net movedex. Rumors hint to pokemon games with  zyguard the (aura reversal Dragon) as the starring legendary. Seeing as the pokemon games release theme with two new games ,each with their own individual plot is typically followed by the release of about one game per year. after for about two years or so. Those games having nothing to do with the two games.Then typically they follow with equal games that either combines or continues the previous two titles.Thus it's possible that pokemon game featuring zyguard with new moves is entirely possible.

stop blaming god and taje action!

When we pray to our gods for help for ourselves or others it shouldn't be the first choice we make. Yes miracles happen and yes there is more to life than living in the moment. For when the moment is over what have we done but waste our vaueable time on frivolity and pointless endeavors? But when we face hardship and hard times what gods in their right minds would assist us if the power to solve our problems were within or own grasp? The point of our existence in this universe is to grow, to learn, to evolvenand become better till we are one with the cosmos as a whole. If we try to pray away something that we can easily solve ourselves and the gods answer us it wold do nothing but make us weaker. So next time you are sick go see a doctor or buy some over the counter meds. Next time you feel sad for the starving, poor, or homeless; offer them food, give them something you don't need, or offer them a place to sleep till the cold night is over. Stop using your collective gods as a cure all and then use them as a scapegoat when you get screwed cause they didn't answer you or help you with something you could entirely do yourself.
So stop asking why the gods wold allow suffering if they existed, or why they let bad people Go unpunished and good people end up punished, or blame god for why you are fat and single. I know a lot of good looking people who are single and they also blame their various gods. course some people really do have a right to blame their gods, really SOmE people just have rotten luck. I have personally seen karma take good luck from one person and give it to anther person while the first person suffers terrible unexplainable bad luck. Like a car suddenly taking a hard left turn off the interstate into a violent wreck in the divider while the other car remains completely unharmed.
Of course sometimes we can take karma into our own hands. Why watch the ambush spider wrap up the house centipede knowing what will happen to it? Why let the worms fry in the rising sun under the rainbow following the storm that just destroyed your home? Give the centipede and honorable death and save whatever worms you can. Take action when you can and stop blaming the gods as a whole. And when you can't find logic to answer a problem THEN talk to god.

quote of the day

when ones inner self is filled with despair, they can never accept the darkness that fills them, and thus can never trust another person. for fear they learn this darkness and become lost within a world without light.