MM has the dirt on this slimeball. What a fucking elitist creep. You know what kept me from working for the minimum wage all through college while I was a single parent supporting an infant son? A union. Boortz: FOAD.
PS Boortz is wrong that most people earning minimum wage are teenagers. Anybody know what percentage are women?
4 comments:
"Anybody know what percentage are women?"
Wouldn't know what the sitch is in the US, but in the UK I distinctly remember (thanks to the dogged efforts of one particular Guardian columnist) that women filled the lion's share of minimum or low-wage jobs.
Boortz: FOAD
Oh, don't say that...after all, he's *SO* much more reasonable than that Limbaiugh fellow.
(I have a wingnut friend who, when I threw Rush in his face, told me he didn't listen to him--just Boortz and Glenn Beck.)
Not to mention the huge number of women who work in plain sight for substandard wages--servers and bussers in restaurants. Older Child Soprano interviewed for a job this summer at the vastly overpriced Cheesecake Factory and was offered $2.13 per hour (to bus tables) plus whatever share of the tips the server wanted to share. Since the servers also make way below minimum wage, this would probably not have been much--and she would have felt guilty taking it away from them! So, OCS worked all summer selling funnel cakes on the basement level in the local minor-league baseball park. A hot, greasy, exhausting job--but it paid $8.00 an hour.
Anybody know what percentage are women?
Off the top of my head, no, but I distinctly recall that fact appearing in Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, which I of course don't have with me at the moment.
Post a Comment