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GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:16 PM Oct 2015

1%Hillary thinks working 10 hours per week will pay all bills other than tuition

Lets see... 15 years ago the dorm cost $800/month. 10 hours per week x 15$ per hour x 4 weeks = $600/month. Great math Hillary. You are 25% short using 2000 costs and 2015 incomes, and not taking into account food (yes students eat)

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1%Hillary thinks working 10 hours per week will pay all bills other than tuition (Original Post) GummyBearz Oct 2015 OP
But but but, she cares damit onecaliberal Oct 2015 #1
But she worked hard! The empressof all Oct 2015 #2
my paper delivery gal has this life, MRS. CLINTON: roguevalley Oct 2015 #9
I know a college that does that. 10 hours a week demigoddess Oct 2015 #3
Agree ismnotwasm Oct 2015 #4
lol GummyBearz Oct 2015 #5
What college? neverforget Oct 2015 #7
To be entirely fair she could work about five minutes a month and do that Fumesucker Oct 2015 #6
Yea GummyBearz Oct 2015 #8
Working in the cafeteria at minimum wage wouldn't Downwinder Oct 2015 #10
I actually did this in the early 2000's in college Fearless Oct 2015 #11
Thanks for sharing this data point GummyBearz Oct 2015 #12
Hell, right now I work 50-55 hours a week Fearless Oct 2015 #13
But lil' Chelsea got a job at a hedge fund and bought a $10M apartment... Yurovsky Oct 2015 #14
It's such fail jfern Oct 2015 #15
Yea, but she "works hard" for it GummyBearz Oct 2015 #16

The empressof all

(29,098 posts)
2. But she worked hard!
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:22 PM
Oct 2015

Sorry but many of us worked hard Hillary. We just didn't have your connections. Working hard is no guaranteedof financial security in this country. Ask the women working four part time jobs how easy it is to put food on the table. I find all these 1 % talking about alll their hard work so patronizing.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
9. my paper delivery gal has this life, MRS. CLINTON:
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:01 PM
Oct 2015

she delivers papers in the dark, works as a maid, then waitresses. Total hours of employment a day: 20. Count them. T.w.e.n.t.y.

I asked her how she slept, HOW DO YOU MANAGE!?!

I pull over delivering papers and close my eyes for about twenty minutes. Taking care of three kids alone and this life. FUCK THE 1%.

I actually showed a homeless woman how she can sleep in her u-haul unit without getting caught. Go in just before 7 pm when they lock up, avoid the one camera here, don't touch the doors or they alarm, sleep and you will be okay when the doors unlock at 7 am the next day.

Welcome to the America Hillary doesn't even know exists.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
3. I know a college that does that. 10 hours a week
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:33 PM
Oct 2015

and you graduate debt free. get a clue before you yell foul.

ismnotwasm

(41,976 posts)
4. Agree
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:36 PM
Oct 2015

And I understood what she was saying. It was a good answer--the question was a goading one--trying to get them to attack each other. Neither one fell for it

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
5. lol
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:36 PM
Oct 2015

Bobs big degree farm doesn't count.

I know tuition at uc berkeley, ucla, ucsd. Get a clue before you fail.

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
8. Yea
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:58 PM
Oct 2015

Because she "works hard" ... and anyone who earns less than $300K/hour just doesn't "work hard"

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
11. I actually did this in the early 2000's in college
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:21 PM
Oct 2015

I worked between 20 and 40 hours a week (varying based on semester often closer to 40)...

I graduated a state school with 67K in debt.

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
12. Thanks for sharing this data point
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:33 PM
Oct 2015

Realistically speaking, non-tuition costs are housing, food, and transport.... if it were possible to pay for all those costs while working 10 hours/week, no one would be going hungry, or homeless, in this country. What a joke. The poor work 50+ hours per week and cant save a freakin dime. Get out of the clouds Hillary, there is a whole other world down below you.

Fearless

(18,421 posts)
13. Hell, right now I work 50-55 hours a week
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:36 PM
Oct 2015

At a "decent job" with decent benefits and frankly still live pay check to pay check.

Yurovsky

(2,064 posts)
14. But lil' Chelsea got a job at a hedge fund and bought a $10M apartment...
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:38 PM
Oct 2015

why does everyone think the American Dream is dead?

I bet if everyone just worked as hard as Chelsea, they wouldn't complain so much!

Bunch of slackers!!!

jfern

(5,204 posts)
15. It's such fail
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:38 PM
Oct 2015

For a 16 week semester, room and board is about $7000 today. That's $450 a week, or $45 an hour before taxes. She has no idea about real world prices. All she knows is that she gets paid $400,000 per speech, so that money is easy.

 

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)
16. Yea, but she "works hard" for it
Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:52 AM
Oct 2015

She also knows her daughter got a Hedge fund job after graduating and could afford a million dollar apartment... obviously anyone else should be able to do the same, unless they don't "work hard".

Kind of makes you think that hole "we were dead broke" (after leaving the white house) comment was her literal interpretation of what being dead broke means.

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