Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Unemployment & the minimum wage Message-ID: <388@pucc-i> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 11:24:42 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.388 Posted: Wed Aug 8 11:24:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 01:01:54 EDT References: <1665@inmet.UUCP> <451@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 14 > One writer suggested that black teenagers would be better served > if they could bid for jobs at $2.50/hour. Well, why not $2? > why not $1.50? why not 25 cents a day? Jobs that don't pay a > living wage aren't worth having. It is nice of you to offer to decide for other people which jobs are worth having, but don't you think some people might like to make that choice for themselves? How would you feel if the minimum wage were suddenly changed to an amount substantially more than you make, with the result that you found yourself out of a job? -- Dave Seaman My hovercraft is no longer full of ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags eels (thanks to my confused cat).