[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate

But--in short--minimum wage jobs are not intended to be lifetime jobs; they are intended to be starter and stepping-stone jobs. Accordingly, the fact that energy/water/gas/rent/mortgage costs increase should have a very limited bearing on what the pay is for a minimum wage job is at any given time.

sounds familiar

Originally Posted by Sarah Palin

We believe—wait, I thought, fast food joints? Eh, don't you guys think that ... they're like of the devil, or something? That's what ... liberals ... you wanna send those evil employees who dare work at a fast food joint that you just don't believe in, thought you wanted to, I don't know, send them to purgatory, or something ... so they all go vegan ... and uh ... wages and picket lines, I don't know, they're not often discussed in purgatory, are they? I don't know, why're you even worried about ... fast food wages, because ... Well, we believe ... an America where minimum wage jobs, they're not lifetime gigs! They're stepping stones!