10 year challenge bad information from Occupy Democrats by dumb-news

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10 year challenge bad information from Occupy Democrats
When we talk about dumb-news, there are very few outlets with millions of followers that can keep up with the "dumb-ness" of Occupy Democrats.  Virtually everything that they expose or report on is at least manipulated data, and a lot of it is downright untrue.  They aren't really a news outlet, but that doesn't matter these days as people are just as likely to believe a meme as they are actual information.  

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Just look at that!  Doesn't it make you super angry!  We need to vote for some politician that is going to change this.... right?  Just a few problems though and of course OD is not going to point these out.

The $7.25 figure is indeed the **Federal minimum wage** but each of the states set up their own minimum wage rules based on the economies of scale according to what the cost of living in their state is.  It doesn't take a genius to figure out that living in New York City or Los Angeles is going to cost significantly more than in Climax, North Carolina (and yes, that is a real city name in NC.)  A friend of mine owns an apartment block where the units are $450 / month.  

Many expensive states have a minimum wage around $10 -$12 / hour and the more expensive ones have introduced $15 minimum wage scales that have actually been pretty detrimental to the workforce as companies had no choice but to cut back hours and eliminate positions altogether.
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However, the most damning information lies in the numbers that Occupy Democrats is definitely not going to reveal and that is that virtually all economic data points to people being **better off** than they were 10 years ago.

only 0.2% of the **entire work force** works full-time at the Federal Minimum Wage and only 4.8% of the workforce does so on a part-time basis.  Many of these workers are in high-school or college and they are brand new staff members such as someone who is a 16 year old trainee washing dishes at a seafood restaurant (one of my first part-time jobs.)  Basically, these people are generally not paying the rent that is depicted in the meme:  Many of these people are no-skill workers who probably live with their parents and don't pay any rent at all.  

The outcry to increase the minimum wage is a dumb one since it is geared towards a mere 0.2% of the workforce (not the overall population - don't get the wrong idea!) If I owned a business that employed high-school students who had to be constantly monitored (and replaced when they quit - which is common with HS students) and was suddenly told that I had to dramatically increase their hourly pay - i would have no choice but to either get rid of most of them, or to lose the business.  

The most disingenuous part of this "news" is the fact that they take the Federal Minimum Wage (which isn't even the minimum wage in most states) and then compare it to the nation average rent (which includes crazy rent places like NYC where tiny apartments are $3,000 a month) and then completely ignore that almost NO ONE is working full-time for minimum wage.  

While i do feel bad for that 0.2%, this "news" is intentionally misleading... but that is kind of what Occupy Democrats does.   
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@gooddream ·
Occupy Democrats and the Other 98% are two of the most frustrating high-membership groups on social media.  There are friends of mine who seem to get their "ideas" from very few other sources.  Of course there are conservative ones as well and some of my friends and relatives probably do the same thing but in reverse.

I remember reading somewhere that OD has a 0% rating on some fact-checking website.  Unfortunately, I can't recall what it was.  
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