Once upon a time, dear children, pennies were actually made out of copper.....hence the term 'copper cent'...but maybe you never heard of that....

A recent FB discussion veered into the ‘minimum wage’ idiocy…’n yeah, I fully realize that calling it an idiocy comes under the heading of ‘name-calling’…. It ain’t rocket science, people, or even higher mathematics…basically, it comes down to grade school arithmetic, which, sadly in this modern day ’n age seems to be sumthin’ of a foreign language to the children of t’day…’n by children, I’m talking about that age group, 35 to 45, whose maturity level seems to have stalled somewhere around middle school… Even that reknown sage, Bill O’Reilly, supports a minimum wage of 10 to 15 dollars….I suspect that his rise to affluence has affected his brain cells and he really has become the ‘simple’ man that he brags about…. Not too long ago, one of the tone-deaf friends opined that ‘it must’a been nice living back in the ‘50s with the muscle cars when the price of gas wuz so low that gas mileage didn’t matter’….And that brings us to the crux of the matter, friends, gas mileage mattered just as much back then as it does t’day, maybe even more c’uz we didn’t have anything like the minimum wage in those halycon days of yore….when your job (if y’cud find one) paid .20 to .30 cents an hour, it took an hour or more to buy a gallon of gas….T’day, with the minimum wage around $7.00 an hour, that same hours work’ll buy you two gallons of gas….and that, according to the liberal hearts, is how minimum wage is supposed to work…. Only problem is, first ’n foremost, y’got to find yourself a job! I ain’t talking welfare benefits here but I don’t doubt that some airhead Democrat politician would love to buy gas for the disenfranchised if he can only find a way to hide it in the budget… ‘Cause what happens to a small business, a fast food or similar business, is when you raise the wages of the employees, you automatically raise the price of doing business ’n in order to keep their profit margin (if it ain’t satisfactory, you close up ’n go on welfare same as your employees) WHY, they’re forced to raise their prices which pretty effectively cancels out the raise in pay they were forced to give their employees… And that’s how the welfare government works…the one percenters work ’n make money, lots of money, so we’ll just take it from them ’n the rest of us won’t have to do anything except sit home ’n watch our big screen teevee’s…oh, ’n drink our oversized sodas that go so well with the starchy fast foods that we live on because it’s too demanding to learn how to cook for ourselves…. I could go on ’n on, I suppose, but it’s getting a little wordy ’n I’m just repeating m’self ad infinitum ad nauseum to an audience that won’t read it anyway ’n if they did manage to get through some of it, it would only raise their blood pressure ’n they’d call me an angry old white man who is just pissed off because they rule the country now….