Living Wage and Minimum Wage

[Armstead]

6. No that's right wing nonsense

I spent year working full time at an Abry's back in the day.

While it's true that I eventually went back to college, at the time I was a self-supporting adult living 500 miles away from Mommy and Daddy. I worked my tail off six days a week from 8 a.m to 5 p.m.

And many of the people I worked wit were older and that was their long-term livelihood. They were working people -- period. Their jobs were just as demanding as assembly-line work, even if the assembly line was cranking out sandwiches instead of car parts. They an I deserved a living wage.

And, as has been noted, many of the formerly "good" working and middle class jobs have been outsourced o automated If more people are going to be manufacturing food as a result, they deserve to be treated as working people.