Err - yes, the cite is dividing those who earn minimum wage into two categories. Evil Captor was denying that one of the categories was of any significant size - the younger teen-ager category. More than half of those who earn minimum wage are actually in that category, not the poor-oppressed-beat-down-by-poverty-and-the-heartless-capitalist-hegemony category that he was alleging.
That having been said, did you have a point?
Regards,
Shodan
You need a refresher in reading comprehension. Evil Captor said this:
That is pretty much the complete opposite of your interpretation – the actual point being that very substantial numbers of people with McJobs are NOT teenagers looking for some extra spending money.
No I don’t.
Nope. Evil Captor certainly said something the opposite of what my cite said. That’s because what he said is wrong. Most people with McJobs are teen-agers looking for extra spending money, and this has nothing to do with being beat down by years of poverty. Check the figures on family incomes from my cite.
I’ll let your insult about reading comprehension pass this time. I’m right, and you’re wrong. Deal with it.
No, it just seemed like an awkward way to word it. I’d have written: 53 percent of minimum wage-earners are between the ages of 16 and 24 and usually in school. Much simpler and more direct. I didn’t know if there was some larger point the author was trying to make in context by writing it the way he did.
Please point out what Evil Captor said that you were refuting. All I could find was the one sentence that you cited, which was entirely factually correct, and which you claimed to refute. But in fact, you made up some point, which you attributed to Evil Captor, and proceeded to refute that.
Let us review. Evil Captor said this:
Your “refutation” claims the majority of minimum wage workers are young. Whether or not this is factually correct, and I have no reason to disbelieve it, Evil Captor didn’t make any claim to the contrary.
I can cede just barely “mostly” given that your cite shows that 47 percent of people in McJobs are 25 years or older. Seems to indicate a lot of older workers in McJobs. If you’d bothered to read the post I was refuting, MacGiver said McJobs were “jobs held by high school kids to make pocket change.” Your cite refutes his point very handily. Thanks!
No, just the opposite - my cite establishes that what he said is true, and refutes your claim.
It’s clear that you and Boyo Jim can’t be forced to understand something on which you choose to be ignorant. So it goes.
Regards,
Shodan
McDucks proudly claims to be a working place for Americans of all age groups.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Novak_suggests_Republican_operative_was_behind_0317.html
Heres a story by a super conservative saying Spitzer was targeted .
Frankly I couldn’t care less about the subject of the thread. I do care a bit about the English language. It’s clear to me that either you don’t understand it, or because you are constitutionally unable to admit an error, you are pretending that you understood what was said and made an appropriate response. Or you understood everything and have been trying to bullshit and blather your way through. Well, you win. There is certainly no more point to this discussion.