Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Regardung 30 Days

After watching 30 days on minimum wage, made mne feel so sad; that there are so many people working so hard for money yet they gain nothing out of it. Instead most of get sick and spend most of their savings on their medicals bills or on their children. Watching this video actually reminded me of my family, when we first came to U.S. my family had nothing. at first we lived at my uncles place at New York for a month, to settle down and to know how the country or the system works. Around here then my dad went out for job hunting and ended working at kohls i think. I was pretty young back then, but i still remember how hard they worked to bering our family out of poverty. from NY we move to chicago and over here we satyed at one of dad's friends house for $300 a month and later my dad had to work two jobs in the morning and over night at a gas station. we didn't had a tv, bed, couches, dining table, and a car heck we didn't even had a chair to sit on. for first two years it was horrilble i hate it my life. But then man my parents worked so much and all was for me and my brother. My brother and i were the only people taht kept them going on. To make our lives better they made theirs miserable. Later on as the years passed on my dad tried many different jobs even as a taxi driver and my mom would work at walmart as cashier. My dad realized that miminum wage wouldn't be enough to survive in this country so he started searching for a business and well yea i guess u could say that getting a business helped my family get out of poverty but even a business required alot work.. i could say alot more, but yea there no way a person can live a good life on minimum it's almost impossible specially with kids.

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