> Yeah, well. Even monkeys need to eat, and as things stand, the view, of
> some of the wackos running, seems to be that it costs too much to buy
> them bananas, so its, somehow, their own damn fault that they have to
> eat their own feces. Case in point - My work doesn't pay its lowest
> level employees more than minimum wages. They, if lucky, get 20-30 hours
> a week, average, and then only if unionized, and the company just tacked
> on a $5 a week health care charge, then gave them a 10 cent raise. So..
> They plan to let everyone work 50 hours to make up the difference? Of
> course not... And the current contract "explicitly" states that those
> employees will *never* get a raise, since no one **ever** receives a
> performance raise either, unless the state raises the minimum.

I guess they find it incredibly hard to find anyone to work for them then?

> So, yeah, I would love to see the damn congress idiots, and senate, at
> the minimum, have to try to live on that kind of wage, especially since
> they don't seem to think they have to actually bloody spend time
> working, either.

There's nothing to stop the above people working for your company on the 
minimum wage deciding to go into politics.

I don't know how it is in the US, but in the UK politicians salaries are 
pretty mediocre compared to equivalent jobs in industry. For example our 
prime minister has a salary of £142k, in industry someone in charge of 
what 50-200 people (depending on the industry) could probably be on that 
salary and have a fraction of the responsibility the PM has.

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