[mvpel]

My first part-time job paid $.76 an hour which I got because I could crank out collection letters on a manual typewriter mistake free at 85 wpm.

That was three silver quarters an hour, the melt value of which today is about $28.70.

We don't need to fix the minimum wage, we need to fix the money.

[Grams A]

Interesting information. Never would have thought of it from that perspective but you are so correct.

One of the really troubling issues to me though is that our politicians think they need to keep “fixing” too many things and then they have to fix their fix. I detest the minimum wage concept and have never felt that someone should be paid based on their race, creed, color or sex, but on their level of demonstrated ability. Really downsized my business several years ago. Got tired of so many people telling me how it had to be run.

The entire system is broken.