Sorry... a $15 minimum wage is too high

[zalinda]

36. First of all, it is not $15 NOW

It is $15 in a few years time. What will the inflation rate be then? Also, back in 1960 things were a little different. Believe it or not there were people who had no phones at all. I know that in my area, we still had party lines. A party line for those who do not know, was when more than one person had access to a phone line, you sometimes had to wait until that person was off the phone before you could use it and in some cases, you had no idea who the other parties were on the phone. And, yes, you could listen in on phone conversations. In rural areas you still had switchboard operators, who would connect you to the person you wanted to call. You would only pick up the phone when your ring signal had rung. Btw, this is why people still wait for a phone to ring 3 or 4 times before they pick up, it was to recognize if it was your ring signal. Now, every person basically HAS to have a phone for work and you have to be available at all times to answer it.

Back in the 1960's, where you worked was close to home. Believe it or not, a lot of people still didn't have cars and certainly not more than one car per family. There were also a lot more jobs. Your local paper would have an entire section of the newspaper devoted to job listings and it would run 6 to 10 pages on a Sunday with small typeset ads. Now, it is almost a requirement to have a car, and even if you don't you have to have a drivers license.

Yes, life has become more expensive and complicated than in the 1960's. We oldies probably could go on for days about what it was like back then.

Z