mcjoan takes issue with George Will's "$0" minimum wage...

george will...

Today, raising the federal minimum wage is a bad idea whose time has come, for two reasons, the first of which is that some Democrats have an evidently incurable disease -- New Deal Nostalgia. Witness Nancy Pelosi's "100 hours" agenda, a genuflection to FDR's 100 Days. Perhaps this nostalgia resonates with the 5 percent of Americans who remember the 1930s....

[T]he minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices. Washington, which has its hands full delivering the mail and defending the shores, should let the market do well what Washington does poorly. But that is a good idea whose time will never come again.

mcjoan...

Will's argument is made up of the usual bromides: the market should be allowed to set wage rates, a minimum wage increase will decrease employment, a minimum wage increase will slow down the economy, and my favorite: anyone making the minimum wage isn't truly poor.

she continues, effectively debunking will's arguments... but THAT'S not what put the burr under MY saddle...

NOW HEAR THIS, GEORGE WILL...! LABOR IS NOT A COMMODITY...! THOSE WHO WORK ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND DESERVE TO BE RESPECTED ACCORDINGLY...!

ASSHOLE...!

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