The wife and I went to the New Golden Corral Buffet last night, and I asked the bus boy how much they started him out at. He said $2.13 an hour! I asked what the cooks were paid. He said he wasn't positive, thought it was $8.00 an hour. Anyone think they get medical benefits?
At $2.13 an hour, that guy can't even buy a cup of coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Burger King.($3.99) Is it really possible to live on $80.00 a week?
Looks like the cons have succeeded in making the U.S. a banana republic.
Our dinner was $26.00
It's not that we delight in seeing the very low end earning such meager wages, we don't of course, we just want to suggest resolutions different than yours.
But what we do find upsetting year after year is the huge pay imbalance between most wage earners and labor unions. Between private wage earners and government employees. Don't forget to factor in all of the huge benefits, medical, pension et al. when comparing compensation.
Finally, you can thank your highly left wing trial lawyer associations and most all lawyers for keeping tort laws as they are, for allowing all these frivolous crap lawsuits to go through and the winning defendant still have to pay for his legal fees, and for an endless line of victims, and for having the congress in their hip pocket.