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Originally Posted by TexKan

Minimum wage jobs aren't based on how hard the work is but rather the education level needed. Try waitin some tables for a weekend then tell me they make what they are worth. Try bein a nurses aide in a nursing home and tell me it's worth the 7 or 9 bucks they make, try workin all day in the sun and tell me it's worth the 12 bucks they make. It's not all so easy for those with no higher level of education -

I agree with your idea it shouldn't be legislated but truth is there are too many fat cats not to legislate it cause if they didn't there would probably be even more fat cats that get wealthy off the backs of others. I don't think there has been another choice that I have ever heard of that would actually work. Fat cats are too greedy.

There are people with 4 year degrees waiting tables. Minimum wage jobs aren't based solely on education but skill. If it is an unskilled job IE: stocker and Walmart and there are 400 people in line to take that job then I would say the employer has the advantage and can pay someone 5.15 or 6.00 an hour. Having a skill doesn't always mean education. A person that lays bricks might make pretty good money and never went to college. It's about having a viable skill. Most minimum wage jobs are low skill or no skill jobs that can be filled by most people.

What exactly is a fat cat? Would you call the person that owns say...Dillons a fat cat?