Name:   Buteye - Subject:   The all too predictable result of a "living wage" Date:   6/23/2017 7:01:51 PM

I'm not a business man but it doesn't take a financial genius to understand that there are certain types of businesses that have a limit on what hourly wage their particular service can support and remain profitable. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are greatful to have a job even though they are not receiving $15.00 an hour. Leave it to the left wingers to scream and hollow for a $15.00 mimnimum wage and then see certain kinds of jobs disappear when companies are forced to find cheaper ways to operate just as MD's is doing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              As an interesting sideline I was on vacation last week at Gulf Shores with my kids and grandkids and there were restaurants advertising for "diswashers" at $12.00 an hour with a sign on "bonus". I guess I am too old to have a lot of sympathy for people who think they are above working in some jobs. Yes, I realize that things change over time, but I look back as a teenager when I mowed grass, and one of the lawns I cut was about an "acre" which I cut with a non-powered push mower for $3.00, and the temperature would be in the 90's and the humidity out of sight. During the fall schools would let out for six weeks so kids could pick cotton. I picked cotton in a 9 ft. pick sack which farmers paid $3.00 per hundred pounds, and you were a good picker if you could pick 200 lbs. a day(six whole dollars). I'm not bragging but sometimes it's hard for me to put things into prospective.