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arasina, you don’t know the half of it.. These parasites actually eat the golden geese.. Liberals are constantly calling for raising the minimum wage, which has had the most devastating effect on the most vulnerable among us..

History should teach us something, but few remember what the facts are, when we have it at our fingertips with computers..

Carter, raised the minimum wage during the 70’s oil shortages that his policies were directly responsible for..

Raising that wage all but removed the young from entering the labor force, and changed many common services that never returned.. We now pump our own gas, because kids used to pump gas at almost every service station, and they also checked our oil, aired our tires, and cleaned our windows..

GONE are those jobs, and that important entry level jobs for kids.. Also we are now eating junk, serving our own food in fast food restaurants, because busboys and girls were considered unneeded costs, and waiters and waitresses are now required to clean their own tables all too often..

The minimum wage almost did away with janitors and maintenance companies, able to clean more places in the same evenings, sprung up as a result of the increase..

These are only the jobs that I had to adjust to in my food and beverage business.. There are hundreds of changes that happen when you tinker with capital commerce..

Good points. I should mention that supermarkets are soon going to be eliminating cashiers and customers are going to have to bag their own groceries because supermarkets cannot afford to keep paying the artificial minimum wages imposed upon them. Their margins are already razor thin and increases in the minimum wage will give them no other choice but to have customers scan and bag their own groceries. That might sound ridiculous to some but if you went back to 1975 and told people they'd be soon pumping their own gas, they'd look at you kind of funny.

When I was a youngster, I had all kind of great part-time jobs that are more or less unavailable to teenagers today. I never made a lot of money in those jobs but they provided me with pocket money and prepared me for the higher-paying jobs that would later come my way.

The “parasites” are the owners whining this refrain:

“Oh, our business is different. We can’t make money if we have to (pay overtime, pay a minimum wage, allow a forty-hour work week, pay the interns)!”

You hear it from the restaurant industry. Construction. The entertainment industry (my business).

And the answer back should always be: “No, your business is not different. If you can’t make money following labor laws, then you should go out of business.”

Wage and workweek laws only created the most prosperous, largest middle class with the best quality of life the world has ever seen. That’s all.