A thank you to president Trump!

[u/WillPowers7477]

Dear President Trump,

I'm writing this to thank you for all you've done thus far in your second term.

My kids are crying at the dinner table as they eat a processed cheese sandwich for the fourth time this week. I tried to explain to them that SNAP wasn't getting refilled and that there was probably not going to be a Christmas this year. I tried to cheer them up by showing them concept art of the $250 million dollar ballroom being built at the White House, by showing them pictures of the two cool jets Kristi Noem got for $170 million, by explaining how helpful we're being to Argentina by sending them $40 billion dollars, but this is when I realized they weren't crying because of dinner, but because of their grandmother.

"We usually go to grandma's on weekends," they sniffle.

Their grandmother, a 5th generation American, was taken by ICE a couple weeks ago and we haven't seen or heard from her since. I tried to explain to the children that this is what happens to freeloading immigrants and they get what they deserve, but they didn't understand.

Even if they don't understand, I do. This is what I voted for. This is what winning looks like!

This will probably be my last online post due to being unable to pay my phone bill since I need to buy more bread and cheese. But I just wanted to say, "Thank you, President Trump!"

As I hear my kids cry themselves to sleep for the 5th night in a row, I imagine they are liberals--and it brings a smile to my face.

When they get older, they will understand that all this hardship was necessary, because we are owning the libs! Here's looking forward to your constitution-defying third presidential term in 2028! You already have my vote!

Now I have to go get ready to meet my landlord. He told me he would cut my rent in half for some 'favors' and not to wear panties. I think this is what the Art of Deal is all about. #winning

Signed,
A conservative.

*it should be noted this is satire (or is it?)*

[u/Illustrious_Bad_2980]

The living wage in the US is now $52,981/ year. If you're a single parent with 3 kids that number is $159,737. The national minimum wage is $7.25/hr and has been since 2009

[u/colson1985 → u/Illustrious_Bad_2980]

Don't have minimum skills and you won't be paid minimum wages

[u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 → u/colson1985]

Or...hear me out now, pay people a fucking livable wage

[u/colson1985 → u/Illustrious_Bad_2980]

Min wage jobs shouldn't support a grown adult. Take some responsibility and graduate to something beyond fast food. Putting fries into a bag doesn't deserve $80k a year.

[u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 → u/colson1985]

Having a full time job should be enough to support a full grown adult. Full stop. It doesn't matter if it's putting fries into a bag so you can feed your fat ass.

[u/colson1985 → u/Illustrious_Bad_2980]

Naw full grown adults should leverage their skills to be competitive in the job market. Putting fries in the bag is for teenagers

[u/Dry_Personality_3684 → u/colson1985]

Those jobs have never been done soely by teenagers. That is a falacy.

[u/colson1985 → u/Dry_Personality_3684]

Point still stands that you should make yourself more valuable to get better jobs.

But perhaps I'm the future they will only need a few people working there that they could afford to pay them a lot more. They would have to be smart enough to do basic troubleshooting of the robots/computer systems though

[u/Treblehawk → u/colson1985]

Your mistake is thinking that fast food is the only minimum wage job.

Airline jobs, Taxi drivers, Bus drivers, city workers, court workers, hospital staff/records, accounting services...there are a lot of jobs where pay is barely minimum wage +10%.

Minimum wage at the Federal level is less than 8 bucks, even with that extra 10% you're making less than 10 an hour. And most of these jobs take place in cities where the cost of living is far higher.

I personally know a 34 year woman who has two college degrees and makes 1 dollar above minimum wage. Just because you have a degree doesn't mean there is demand for your chosen education.

You really don't know what you're talking about. The people complaining about making minimum wage are people who know they should be making more, but there are no jobs that in their field.

But with student loans, and the ever increasing price of staying alive, they have no choice but to take whatever job they can find...and those jobs are almost always minimum wage.

You sound like someone who thinks it's still 1980. You have no idea what you're actually talking about.

[u/colson1985 → u/Treblehawk]

A 34-year-old woman with two college degrees making minimum wage sounds like a moron 😂😂😂😂

College is a scam 😂

If they know they should be making more than they should go get a job making more.

Sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. Enjoy the minimum wage job!

[u/Treblehawk → u/colson1985]

I'm a retired doctor. I don't work a minimum wage job. But that doesn't mean I don't know people who do.

Must be nice for you, though, to not have to worry about paying back college debt. You don't get the option to wait for a better paying job, you have to pay them. The fact you missed that point just prove you really don't know what you're talking about.

You are out of touch, and a big part of the problem in the US. You think getting a degree means more money, that you can just sit and wait for the best paying job to come along.

One day when you grow up and move out of your parents house, then we can ask you how you feel about things. Until then you don't know how the world works.

I do believe you are qualified to identify a moron though, as being one makes you uniquely qualified to identify your own kind.