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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (745336)	10/9/2013 9:43:18 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576883

BART workers resort to strikes because that is their only recourse. Recourse for what? Getting higher than what is already the highest salaries for transit workers in the state? They get higher pay because SF is the most expensive metro in the state. Why is that concept so hard for you to understand? You really don't get it if you think BART workers aren't making a "living wage." That's part of the reason why your question is stupid. How the hell do you know what is a living wage for these workers? How many kids do they have? What family members do they support? Do their wives work? $76K is very close to the income level that allows a family of 4 to live in HUD subsidized housing in SF: Low-Income A family that earns 80 percent or less than the area's median income qualifies for the HUD-designated "low-income" group. In San Francisco, HUD considers a one-person household "low-income," if its annual income is at or below $60,200. This number jumps to $86,000 for a four-person family. In the Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area, these figures are $45,100 and $64,400, respectively. Applicants anywhere in the country may qualify for HUD's public housing program if their household earns 80 percent or less than the area's median. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/hud-guidelines-low-income-1911.html That's the reality and not your anecdotal speculation. I get the fact that since it's expensive to live here, public workers should be paid more than the average. But they already do, and by a generous margin, more so than the margin workers in the private sector gets by working here over some other place like, you know, Seattle. Seattle is not nearly as costly to live as the Bay Area. The fact that you don't see that tells me that you don't get it, and that you will just listen to union rhetoric until the cows come home. Truth is you just don't know what you're talking about. You've got one foot in mythology and the other in science, and in the process, your wires get crossed.