What would you think of someone that made enough money to live off of, $22 per hr,but they sued the state for?
594346
ANY sort of welfare fraud burns me up.  Makes me crazy.  Gets my goat like few other things do.\n\nThis one makes me scratch my head a little as well.  If he already has medical coverage, it will always always always be used as primary.  The only way he will be able to take advantage of it is to go to providers that take Medicaid, and are willing to bill secondary insurances.\n\nIf you want to talk about loopholes, Medicaid participating providers are required to bill Medicaid and not the patient until Medicaid has processed the claim.  However, Medicaid will not pay as primary in a situation like this, and often providers are not required to submit to secondary insurances.\n\nI haven't been in the field for ten years.  Things might have changed, but I haven't heard anything to that affect from people I know who still do this sort of work---And they know it interests me.  :-)
1064300
Put the fuzz on her ass, really! I once had a landlord that was a complete ass to me, fuzzing a week before the pay day saying,"You better start having the money by next week, or I'll force eviction your ass out!" So I just left on my own, put the cops on him, and sold out all of his apartments to an alternate landlord.
599346
A Bedtime Story...\nOnce upon a time there was this guy who was good at math and computers.  He went to school and got some degrees and worked in software and data analysis for a number of years.  He worked at one company in particular for five years.  This company was owned by friends, who treated him like family (this isn't necessarily a good thing) and he worked very hard for them, and earned a good salary doing so.  He was also miserable and irritable most of the time.  Finally, the constant stress caught up with him and he left the company.  For fourteen months, he did odd jobs and barely scraped by, driving him into fairly serious financial issues.  He lost his car, and used public transportation and his bike and his feet to get places.\n\nHe was never happier.\n\nAfter fourteen months, his friends came to him and said that things would be different.  They weren't really, and he didn't expect that, but he thought maybe he was different enough that he could manage.  Again he made good money, again he busted his rear to earn this money.  He was there about 16 months before he left again (fired this time instead of quitting.)  He simply wasn't happy spending his life serving others for nothing more than a paycheck.  \n\nThis guy hadn't learned the lesson that money does NOT equal time.  Money is useful, but the simple fact is, in one hundred years, this guy and pretty much everyone else reading this will be dead, and that money isn't going to make a damn bit of difference in that.  Were he here, this guy would applaud you for discovering that which he can't seem:  being happy for who and for where you are.  That is a gift.
381212
Generally it's 66% of your current wages paid bi-weekly. Of course with an attorney, they may be able to get a settlement for you.
1140128
Perhaps if you were to go to work and pay market rates, you would have less problems!! Why should taxpayers subsidize you? And now you want free legal advice because your subsidized housing situation is not good enough?\n\n\nSorry, I do not see where you have a complaint
247324
Unlike "nvlawyer"- "showbiz" folks are the same as most anything-supply and demand dictates how much they can demand for a paycheck, not the performers themselves. In the case of elected officials, I have often shared the belief and opinion that so many candidates are millionaires, and multimillionaires, that when they choose to go into "public office" for the "good of the their constituents" they should do it pro bono, i.e., for no pay, such as our Governor in California, "AHroldt" has.
140058
Its hard to say.. When you went to court you should have made sure that the 6000 was going to be taken care of by the other party. If the person you went to court with has no money.. and probably never will.. don't expect a dime.. after lawyer fee's and all that other crap.. it won't be worth it.. if the other party does have money.. its probably time for a lawsuit if you have not received the money you should have been entitled to...
65467
It depends on how you mean to solve that problem.  Do you mean that (more) money should be taken away from the working people, and given to those that do not work (welfare)?  Or do you mean employers should have to pay a livable wage?  \n\nI feel that employers should have to pay a livable wage.  I know that executives sitting in their suits will say "anybody can do the work that I pay my lowest-level employees to do).  Well, I would like to see Mr./Mrs. Suit actually DOING some of that manual labor - they would be crying like babies by the end of the day.  I would like to see all "low level" employees walk off their jobs for one week - and see the "high level" suits scrambling to try to keep their businesses running without them.
838264
That's a lot of money to just let go.  If it were $1,700.00 then I might just whoop his a** and let it go but for $170,000...are you kidding?  Some attorney might take the case and it's free to check it out.
807128
I defended myself on a misdomener case. Sort of a public indecency thing. I pled no contest and I got 6 months unsupervised probation and 100 hours of community service. I Also had to pay court costs of about 75 dollars.\nI wanted to hire a lawyer but he was joing to chrge me 1500 dollars. I think i did pretty good.
73357
A lot.  Then again it wouldn't really matter if you made that much.  It's like 7 times what a normal person makes.
862220
Another one of the posters had it right when they sprinkled their answers with dollar signs. It is absolutely about how much money you have and how high priced of an attorney you can afford to hire. For example, there was that real estate tycoon (can't remember his name) who killed either 1-2 people. He hired that famous Wyoming lawyer and got off. Do you think a guy from the hood, only being able to afford a public defender, is going to get the same justice?\n\nHaving seen the criminal justice system in action  this is what I see: The person commits the offense, the DA piles the charges, knowing that all those charges won't stick, but they want to get it down to the offense in which the person did commit will stick. The plea bargain goes into play in which the defendant, facing months or years more in jail than they deserve, pleas to the offense and gets the appropriate punishment.\n\nEveryone is so against plea bargaining, but if it were banned and all defendants went through a jury trial, the criminal justice system would absolutely ground to a halt! There is no way the system could handle that many cases. The system wants plea bargains, because it makes the job easier. It's also enormously expensive to run jury trials for every single case presented before the court. \n\nObviously, there have been innocent people convicted. The Innocence Project has freed nearly 150 people jailed by eyewitness identification or police interrogation, only to prove usually years later through DNA that the person isn't guilty. There are undoubtedly many more people in prison for crimes they didn't commit..\n\nThere are also undoubtedly people in prison for crimes they pled guilty to, but are actually not guilty of the crime in which they pled guilty. (I know of one such person, although they are out of prison now.) Here is how this is played out - the defendant must rely on a public defender, the DA piles charges, they negotiate down, take a guilty plea with the promise of much reduced sentences, but life if found guilty at trial by jury. The person tries to cut their losses by pleading guilty so they're not stuck in prison for life.
249304
First, he was a nominee to the Federal Court of Appeals.  Second, he could be going through a lot of personal problems and he is making the wrong choices.  His prior position as an adviser paid him more than $150,000.  Maybe he is unemployed.
1120198
The minimum wage was not necessarily established with the expectation that one would have to make do living on that wage.  There are people who are actually supported by others who are happy to receive 5.25 an hour--namely but not limited to teen agers.  Others might include retired people wanting to add a little income and perhaps others with a full time job wanting to make a little extra.
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Hey icemike.  Sad but ramrod may be right.  I had to take a former co-worker/friend to small claims court.  First you have to go to the closest district court (probably to where the modeling agency is in this case or maybe to your house) and fill out some forms (need to explain the issue, need to know the address/phone number etc of the modeling agency,etc) and pay a filing fee (it may be around $70 and the defendant is forced to pay this back to you if you win the case).  My case was a couple of months after I filed and the defendant never showed up so I automatically won the case.  Tried having their wages garnished but they quickly quit their job.  Next I tried to have any bank savings seized but you needed to know where they banked (luckily I did but they didn't have any cash).  Then I went back to the court to seize any property (car/real estate/etc) that the person owned but the court could find nothing (car was leased, house was in exes name,etc.).  Each step I took was @$75 more and a year later I still haven't collected anything of the $3,000 verdict (the max in Michigan small claims-defendant actually owed $5,000 but I didn't want to bother with lawyers and a longer court process) plus the increased costs of each attempt to collect(technically the defendant will have to pay all these fees too). Basically, the defendant skipped town and it has become my responsibility to track defendant down (believe me the court has been absolutely no help); I have 20 years or more to collect (plus interest is supposedly accumulating on the amount owed) but right now I don't see that happening.  You may want to go file a complaint with a government agency like the Better Business Bureau instead.  Another thing is to look at the contract, it may not say any jobs are guaranteed and, in that case, your friend is probably screwed; I know recently a "modeling agency" notified me to come work for them as a "scout" where basically people paid you to register them as models but no work was ever guaranteed for these people; it sure sounded like the "agency" was scamming both the "models" and "scouts" because the agency took a good cut of the money and probably left the scout with all the legal liabilty.  The only other option I can suggest is to go to the modeling agency, if they actually have an office nearby, and tell them you are going to protest/picket(I'd check with the police or someone first to see how to do it legally) and or possibly put an ad in the paper(s) explaining your dealings with them to the public(I'd see a lawyer or someone before doing it though to make sure you can't be sued for slander).  Perhaps the possible negative press/scaring away of further "customers" will be enough for them to give you your money back. Good luck!
554443
I think that is unprofessional, they earned those wages. They should follow through on their threats.
177565
I live in Missouri and I wouldn't be able to live in $9 an hour here so I know in California (where cost of living is much higher) you wouldn't be able to do so.