So now the President Elect tells us we have to do something for our country (sounds familiar) in order for our country to do something for us. And yet, the "volunteers" for his campaign were not volunteers at all - they were paid workers!! They did not do this for the love of Obama. They did not do this because they wanted to be a part of history. They did it for the oldest of American reasons - COLD ... HARD... CASH!
Don't misunderstand me. For now at least, this is the home of capitalism. Good luck to them. There is one thing that bothers me - they were getting paid in gift cards! How about Social Security and Medicaid? Anyway.......
Now they're pretty mad they had to wait for the pay check - and many felt short changed.
The following comments taken from the story on WTHR - the NBC afflliate in Indianapolis.
"It should have been $480. It's $230," said Imani Sankofa.
"They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90," said Charles Martin.<br>
"I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned," said Randall Waldon.
Some people weren't satisfied with filling out a claim form for money they felt was still due to them.
"They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don't know. We'll see what happens," said Antron Grose.
"Talking about they'll mail it to us. I ain't worried about that, man. They're not going to mail nothin'," said Martin.
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