Bill, you mean that there are still family owned farms? I thought big business bought them out decades ago. To buy farm land you have to be filthy rich, Bill. Today you’ve got 5% of the nation with about 90% of the wealth. And that 5% wouldn’t get dirt under their fingernails working on a farm. You know that. They make their money by taking it from other people (ie. Wall Street crooks). I agree that employers should pick up more of the employee salaries and benefits. It’s unfair to pay them slave wages and then expect the taxpayers to subsidize their food, housing, medical care, etc…. But read my previous comment. You’re going to get to the point that employers pay someone with a 9th grade education almost as much as a college grad who spent $50,000 to get his or her degree. Hell man. THAT’S COMMUNISM!!! Do you get my point? So if Jose the fry basket shaker gets a raise to $15/hr., the college grad making $20/hr. should get a raise to $30/hr. Right? Would that happen? Not a snowballs chance in hell, my friend. And therein lies your problem. Do you want fry basket shakers making as much as college grads? Well, do you???

I get it Timberr, many business owners HATE paying their employees, and consider it their birthright to get dirt cheap, slave labor. And if those full-timers are pulling benefits such as SNAP, WIC, Section 8 housing, etc etc who cares? Of course, lurking in the background is the maxim that “if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” Fact is real wages have been stagnant to shrinking for about 25 years. Fact is the national government is deliberately flooding the country with unskilled labor (SO humanitarian..) pushing down wages while raising housing costs. Instead of focusing on the fairness argument, viz-a-viz the non-marketability of most college degrees, smart young people, IMHO should REALLY start looking at the skilled trades and agriculture. Yes, I said agriculture. Most farmers now are over 60. The fundamentals for SMART, well-run farming operations have never looked better. But kids now are so conditioned to think they have to be ‘smart’ google yuppies…..