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To: Road Walker who wrote (403477)	8/1/2008 12:29:14 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572508

No. If you've got a God awful job you ought to get paid decently. Why? The particular job in question requires very few qualifications ("unskilled" you said), and as such has a very large potential pool of people to fill the limited supply of jobs. Supply and demand John, but you know that. To hell with this "living wage" nonsense. Or can we take your logic further and say since Gates doesn't have a "God awful job", we need to cut his check to less than your unskilled Florida roofer with the "God awful job"?

To: Road Walker who wrote (403477)	8/1/2008 1:00:17 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572508

No. If you've got a God awful job you ought to get paid decently. People who don't have skills get god-awful jobs with low pay. Those who have done what's necessary to make a future for themselves get good jobs. Why should people who have not applied themselves to developing skills be paid as well as people who haven't? Why should a ditchdigger be paid a physician's wage? Why should a roofer be paid what an attorney makes? That's just about as dumb a position as I've seen you take. Probably not quite, but on up there.