[Stegall Tx]

I have a long-standing ongoing argument with a friend about the “living wage”. She just refuses to see that when a person’s minimum pay is set at some level, it prices them out of the market. She just believes (BELIEVES!!!) that the only reason that wages are set at the current level is because the corporations won’t raise them.

Of course, she’s a pastor and her wage is set by TPTB in her denomination rather than the amount of money brought into her congregation.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I have a long-standing ongoing argument with a friend about the “living wage”. She just refuses to see that when a person’s minimum pay is set at some level, it prices them out of the market. She just believes (BELIEVES!!!) that the only reason that wages are set at the current level is because the corporations won’t raise them.

Of course, she’s a pastor and her wage is set by TPTB in her denomination rather than the amount of money brought into her congregation.

The wife a a former pastor of ours had that same attitude. Somehow the sympathy for the person who’s trying to make an honest buck by trying to keep a business afloat just is lost in the shuffle. There she was, laying heavy burdens ad grievous to be borne on men’s shoulders, while admitting that she would not move them with one of their fingers.

Matthew 23:4

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

- King James Bible