[rogue yam]

The last time I worked for minimum wage was in the late 1970s during the summer in Baton Rouge. Assembling crap in an un-airconditioned warehouse. You're darn right it sucked. At summer's end I went back to college full-time and made quite good grades while earning an engineering degree. I had no problem understanding my motivation there. Of course I was plenty motivated already. For some reason, all during the 60s and 70s when I saw those public service ads on TV that said "To get a good job, you need a good education" they just made plain good sense to me. What I've never understood is anyone who is over 21 and works for minimum wage. How can you have lived that long and not picked up some kind of skill that teenagers don't have?

[Red Jones]

and young people today are trying to do what you did. When they work those summer jobs at minimum wage they get paid a lot less than you did because the minimum wage hasn't kept pace with inflation. And then when they pay for that college tuition they have to pay a lot more than you did because on average college tuitions have gone up much faster than inflation. And so they get student loans which are very easily available tomake the difference. And if they major in engineering like you, then they won't be able to get a job because of H1b. But they'll still have to pay back that student loan. From one generation to another we are slowly putting our people into bondage because we've made a lot of stupid decisions in managing our nation's affairs. And under this scenario the only comment you can make is to say something bad about a person who works a low wage job. very unfortunate.