Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Anecdotal answers to unasked questions

There’s all kinds of talk about fair pay and such these days, some of it coming up because of the Nuns on a Bus.

Here’s what I have to say about what people should be paid.  It uses an outdated example of a working class guy (guy because this is an old example), but I think you’ll get the point.

Our country used to be a place where a milkman didn’t need to work extra jobs to make ends meet and afford a house, a car, to support his wife and 2 or 3 kids and a dog and afford to go on vacation every year.

They also had good schools, clean and well maintained streets and could afford to pay for the doctor and for hospitalization insurance.

Come to think of it, a woman who was a manicurist or hair dresser could do pretty much the same thing.

Our country should still be the place where the average working person can do all these things.  It was once and many people think it still should be.

Why is that controversial?

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