Living Wage and Minimum Wage

[JayhawkSD]

9. We have different opinions

How does that make my opinion "right wing nonsense?" I did not insult you, and I will not.

I disagree with you that because "many of the formerly "good" working and middle class jobs have been outsourced o automated" that people should be "manufacturing food as a result." We should be demanding that the working and middle class jobs be returned to this country, and we should be inventing new jobs. We should be seeking creative news ways to occupy ourselves.

Instead we spend our time demanding that flipping burgers be a living wage job while we allow our bridges to collapse, our water lines to explode, our sewers to burst and spill sewage into our potable water, our highways to become all but impassable, and the debt incurred by our balance of trade defecit to build higher and higher.

Those who actually are manufacturing food, in the farms and factories of this nation, food that is sold in grocery stores and major outlets, should make a living wage. They are productive workers, providing a necessary contribution to their community. "Fast food" is not food and people flipping burgers are manufacturing nothing. They are preparing snacks, which provide nothing in the way of nutrition or sustenance to society.

That does not mean that I think your ideas are "left wing nonsense" because I do not argue by insult. It just means that I disagree with you. It means I agree with a wise man I one knew who said that "we can't all make a living selling each other hamburgers."