Auntie Charo's Soapbox

I'm sure it's a way to get the Democrats to garner the majority votes in the next election.....'see, looka what the republicans did, notta onna dem wanna raise da minamum wage level, dey wanna kep ya poor. we wanna increase you but dey wanna kep you poor.' This is the scenario that I predict because to increase the minimum wages at this time will destroy the economy as we know it, whatever it is, it'll get much, much worse, I promise! Gas prices have increased prices already, water prices have gone up, power's gone up and will probably go up now that John Benavente is no longer there to keep the rates down (he's gone to better feeding grounds-read today's pdn) the cost of doing business is at its highest, to increase minimum wages would kill businesses such as mom'n'pop stores and fast food stores such as KFC, Taco Bell, and the like.....this means that anyone that's 16 that's applying for a job as dishwasher will automatically earn $5.65(or whatever it is that BJ Cruz is dreaming about increasing it to), something that is presently $5.15 per hour.....when the rates increase, I promise that our cousins from the neighboring islands will migrate by the thousands as well, especially if we increase the rates before the Feds do......we'll be swamped with people wanting to better their lives with living wages they'd never dreamed they'd get in their lifetime.
In a perfect world everyone would get an increase in salary more frequently than in eight years(minimum wages)...but it's not a perfect world...we're living in austere times. How many high school graduates were able to get summer jobs at minimum wages this summer....perhaps the good senator should address that question first. There's no such thing as a money tree....there is however, such a thing as a payless payday. Perhaps we should focus on keeping that from happening by being more frugal with what we have.