This reminds me of when my liberal ex-girlfriend was so proud of herself for reading a book.
“Nickel and Dimed”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed
It took me all of two minutes to debunk its premise.
I did get her to read “The New Thought Police” by Tammy Bruce, only after I told her Tammy was a Lesbian.
Oddly enough, when we split up I caught her trying to steal my copy of that book.
Some time ago, I watched a TV show that was done by some professional artist / victim where he and his girlfriend tried to get by on two minimum wage salaries for a month.
Set aside the fact that their "minimum wage" budget was exactly equal to my monthly budget at the time, and we were hardly starving or doing without. But I digress....
The problem was that the "artist" couldn't do it. He and his girlfriend couldn't find minimum wage jobs - plenty of jobs making MORE than that, but no minimum wage work. And....When they finally found min wage work, they were fairly clean cut, showed up ontime, etc etc etc, so their bosses kept giving them raises. Hard to claim that The Man is keeping you down when they keep shoveling money and promotions at you.
Finally, they had to resort to a bunch of contrivances to deprive themselves ..... "Let get an apartment in a really lousy section of town" "Ow! My back hurts! I need medical help and don't have any insurance! And I can't work! And I need workers' comp!" And so on.... A whole lot of problems to stuff into only a month.
The show's premise was "Isn't America a miserable place to live". However, my takeaway was: "If you show up on time, look presentable, and work hard, it's difficult NOT to succeed."