NO WAGE PROBLEM

Either I’m a genius (which is impossible given my I.Q.), or the smarties are fools (which is quite possible due to evidences of their tomfoolery). Articles appeared from ‘experts’ about the urgency of raising the minimum wage from the Catholic News Service on July 30th, 2006 and another in the Wall Street Journal on August 1st. Luckily when I learned to read, I also learned to apply advice also relevant to my table manners and "eat the whole thing." A statistic buried in the center of reporter Mark Pattison’s piece (in CNS) shouted to me, "NO PROBLEM." Apparently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics credits less than 1% of wage earners, almost all of them students living in households with average incomes of $40,00, with earning the minimum wage. If the political poltroons who are creating and exploiting this issue had to admit that over 99% of American workers are doing quite well, and that most of those minimum wage earners will quickly move out of that category as soon as they have their first permanent job, they would immediately look foolish. Rather than do so, they resort to tomfoolery themselves raising the bogus issue of the minimum wage being insufficient to "earn a living or support a family." Minimum wage earners do not intend to "earn a living" with entry level salaries, nor do they "support a family" at that stage in the workforce. The media abets the scare-mongering politicians and do-gooders with their tomfoolery of political correctness. I’m aware that posturing politicians only watch out for November elections and activists groups (usually meaning those who mourn the demise of socialism) will continue to agitate regardless of the truth. Supported by these facts, I think I feel my I.Q. rising. But why do so many social and religious organizations go along with such poppycock? Because it sounds warm and fuzzy blending well with Christian moral values and the so-called American dream.

What is the cost to us citizen taxpayers and persons of conscience (not evil geniuses), driven about like lemmings by special interest groups yearning for failed socialism and bad economic policy? Why are not the media, legislators and social organizations using their time and resources to work on problems affecting the 99% of wage earners? " Don’t they have something better - and really important - to do?" Like raising the common-sense quotient of the American public.