COUNCIL HEARING ON LIVING WAGE
The arguments against this modest proposal were quite revealing of the capitalist mind set. Nancy McLaughlin, an ardent admirer of Ronald Reagan, expressed the fear that young people may resourcefully make do on $10/hr, by communal living and so forth, and then lose all ambition to do more. In other words, she sees starvation and misery as the proper spur to worthless youth, resulting down the road to a well trained and exploitable workforce.
And then Chud Wendle was quite amusing as he flaunted his millions with numerous references as to what he "gives back." Some of his workers may have been thinking, "doesn't charity began at home?." And of course he threatened to move his business out of the city.
Al French fretted over the wording. I believe he considers himself the Ben Franklin of Spokane. French never seems to have a proposal that will not put money into some business person's pocket.
There were the usual speakers who, though having listened to Doug Orr's excellent presentation, did not absorb a word of it and presented the same old arguments that Orr had demolished just moments before. Are these folks in a hypnotic state, or what?
And then Chud Wendle was quite amusing as he flaunted his millions with numerous references as to what he "gives back." Some of his workers may have been thinking, "doesn't charity began at home?." And of course he threatened to move his business out of the city.
Al French fretted over the wording. I believe he considers himself the Ben Franklin of Spokane. French never seems to have a proposal that will not put money into some business person's pocket.
There were the usual speakers who, though having listened to Doug Orr's excellent presentation, did not absorb a word of it and presented the same old arguments that Orr had demolished just moments before. Are these folks in a hypnotic state, or what?
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