blink-182 life. for life.

when a Taurus gets paid and does impulse online shopping

when a Gemini uses nothing but logic & facts in their arguments to break somebody down

when a Cancer ends up getting their way by being bratty

when a Leo steals the center of attention in groups by changing the topic to themselves

when a Virgo proves somebody wrong

when a Libra uses their charm to avoid conflicts

when a Scorpio finds out all your information without you even being aware

when a Sagittarius gets lucky and doesn’t have to own up to their responsibilities

when a Capricorn uses their friends as a method of social climbing

when an Aquarius pushes people away because they know they’ll still be popular anyway

when a Pisces asks for advice but ignores it and falls back into the situations they complain about

petting my cat

holding my cat

burying my face in my cat

kissing my cat

singing songs about my cat to my cat

petting my sleeping cat so that he makes cute noises

petting my sleeping cat so that he rolls over for belly pets

touching foreheads with my cat because she loves me

building pillow forts for my cat

laying out soft blankets everywhere for my cats to sleep on

picking up a cat and taking him/her to bed with me in hopes he/she will stay

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

1 million seconds is just over a week and a half