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Bill[_47_]

(Scott Lurndal) wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet writes:
On 4/17/2015 9:18 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/17/2015 10:02 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/16/2015 10:15 PM, krw wrote:

Minimum wage was *never* expected to be a comfortable wage, yet
people thing it should be. It's an entry wage (which should be
zero).
We should be talking "fair wage", not a minimum. The job should pay
according to the skills and knowledge required. It has to be higher
in NYC than in Podunk, Ohio too.
I don't know about you but I do not want the government deciding what
is a
fair wage.

If you show up for work, the wage is fair. No government needed.
Exactly

Have you ever read _The Jungle_?

"radical action must be taken to do away with the efforts
of arrogant and selfish greed on the part of the capitalist"

- President Theodore Roosevelt

It sounds very timely. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.