Can someone answer my question about the minimum-wage hike?

[eniwetok]

79. full of it

There's no polite way for me to say this, but in my not-so-humble opinion and based on your postings here, I believe you are one of the grifters, defending low wages because there is something in it for you.

Gee, so I'm advocating for the HIGHEST the MW has ever been... 20c below the HIGHEST OECD nation in USD parity purchasing power... and in your cheery Orwellian way manage to translate that into my advocating for "low wages"?

I've certainly debated enough irrational right wingers on this topic over the years but it is shocking to find so many here who are out to lunch on the the other side who are advocating for magic wand, free lunch economics. What I see are people starting with a conclusion and finding any way to justify it... which is obvious when their position is to take a high URBAN MW and try to apply it NATIONALLY to the most UNSKILLED person even in the most economically depressed region of the nation. That's just nutty. And given that the Right and corporate Dems have so f*cked up this economy with free trade and the destruction of unions... and have let the MW depreciate so far... I even worry about what my $11 will do to the economy is certain regions. Yet we have to do something.

As for myself, I have no bone in this fight except to get the MW, the wage that serves as the back up to what I see as a fair level as evidenced in my postings from the Thom Hartmann forum. It's criminal that workers have something like $7600 a year stolen from them. Got together with some friends last night and we were discussing this. One of them, same age as me... mid 60s' has 25 years experience in Quality Control and when his old employer left the state, and his UI was running out, the best job he could find last year doing QC was $10.65 an hour... that's BELOW the 1968 MW. It's fucking criminal.