The Minimum Wage is younger than John McCain.
I posted this one a while back but, in honor of the fact that the Federal Minimum Wage is exploding all the way up to $6.55 this week, I thought I’d re-post it with some additions:
There were various bits of legislation setting a minimum wage prior to McCain’s birth but they were all overturned (I guess 25¢ an hour for back-breaking work in a factory was crazy-talk back then)… but it was re-established in 1938 by the Fair Labor Standards Act. And this time it stuck.
Now, some people might say that $262.00 a week for unskilled labor is fair (and I might say that those people are insane) but when you factor in the cost of gas, childcare, and the fact that - to use an everyday example as a point of comparison - ATM fees could soon be higher than the Minimum Wage (Bank of America charges $3.00… in addition to the whatever fees are charged by the account holder’s bank), $6.55 an hour is laughable.
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As it is so often said “If men had babies, access to childcare would have been in the U. S. Constitution.”
And just to pull up my “old man” pants here for a minute “Did you ever notice how the employers who scream that they will absolutely shut their doors if minimum wage is raised ONE PENNY still happen to be open for business when the minimum wage rate goes up?”
And, sadly perhaps, I remember that same “noise” when minimum wage went “up” to $1.65 and hour!
Comment by Dork — July 21, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Didn’t John McCain sign the Declaration of Independence in really big script?
Comment by Dummidumbwit — July 21, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
but but but HEY! mcinsain was gonna give you poor a gas tax holiday so you could go somewhere NICER on the weekend. not for gas or food, but a nicer GETAWAY.
Comment by pansypoo — July 21, 2008 @ 10:45 pm