Not so strong in the logic department
Every day on my way to work, and back, I’m passing near the World Trade Center construction site. It is fascinating to see how the project progress and how the hole that left after 9/11 a new tower is rising. As far as I can tell the people working in this site are hard-working people, very hard-working . So are many other people: CEO’s, investment bankers, lawyers and factory workers.
But today I learned that the only important measure to how hard-working is a person is how little that person is earning:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said the increase was overdue.
“After 10 years of indifference,” Ms. Pelosi said, “we are raising wages for the hardest-working Americans.”
What make the least earning workers the hardest-working Americans? It seems that same logic that was applied here:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) did just that when she requested $25 million for a project to improve the waterfront in her home district of San Francisco. Her request did not note that her family owns interests in four buildings near the proposed Pier 35 project.
Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi, said that any suggestion of a conflict of interest is "ridiculous." He said that Pelosi was passing along a spending request from the Port of San Francisco and that she would not benefit from it.
I can understand, and still disagree, when one argue that as a society we should support those who are falling behind. But to argue that one is the increase of minimum wage is justified because it is for the hardest-working Americans is flat-out stupid.
Tags: Minimum Wages Nancy Pelosi The Free Market
No tag for this post.
Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: Called with an empty time parameter. in /var/www/vhosts/rogelsview.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/disqus/disqus.php on line 130
blog comments powered by Disqus
Add New Comment
Thanks. Your comment is awaiting approval by a moderator.
Do you already have an account? Log in and claim this comment.
Add New Comment
Trackbacks