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Originally posted by Colin
My first job was at McDonald's. My second was as a fry cook at Taco Bell. I made $3.35 and then $3.45 an hour. I was never in favor of the government forcing my employer to pay me more money. At that age, 16, I was reading a lot of success stories - "rags to riches" stories. Stories where everyday people earned their way to success rather than having it given to them. It always seemed to me that the best way for me to better my life was my own efforts.
There are good reasons to vote for Kerry but I don't think minimim wages is one of them.
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Well there's a difference between us, I'm from the Bill Clinton school that says the rich don't need to hold the poor down to get richer. A black mother of 3 is never going to have a fucking rags to riches story, but personally I wouldn't mind seeing her able to pay for heath insurance and food. I love a guy who's parents paid his way though Yale preaching about how he didn't need the minimum wage raised when he worked at McDonalds for spending money at the age of SIXTEEN. People don't care about the minimum wage because of how it relates to a rich kid's drinking money. Try taking a minimum wage job NOW because that's all there is in your neighborhood, and you don't have mommy and daddy to pay your way to an Ivy league school. I seriously doubt you paid your tuition at $3.35/hour.
