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Thread #99746   Message #2019908
Posted By: Dickey
08-Apr-07 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Poverty in the USA
Subject: RE: BS: Poverty in the USA
Anybody that disagrees with Bobert and his "facts" or statistics (which he caims are for losers) is automatically branded a *************shill************** working for Boss Hogg which is another straw man created by Bobert.

A very nice attempt at creating class warfare using straw man, ad hominem and red herring debating falacies.

Take for instance this "fact" that Mr. I come by all my stuff the hard way Bobert cut and pasted from a left wing propaganda site:

"The $17,530 earned by the average Wal-Mart employeee last year was $1,820 below the poverty line for a family of four...."

CHICAGO â€" The Illinois Legislature wasted no time heeding the national voters’ mandate, overwhelmingly passing a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage from $6.50 an hour to $7.50 effective next July. The bill, which Gov. Rod Blagojevich said he looks forward to signing, will make the Illinois minimum wage one of the nation’s highest.

The measure provides for the minimum to increase 25 cents a year until it hits $8.25 an hour in 2010.

According to figures released by Blagojevich’s office, the wage increase will boost the average annual income for nearly 650,000 full-time minimum wage workers and their children from $13,520 to $15,600 next year. By 2010, the yearly pay for a full-time minimum wage earner will be $17,160.


http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/10286/1/351/

Seems to me that Walmart is four years ahead.