Our service economy......with low wages [View All]

I was leaving a cafeteria style restaurant this evening and a woman who had been working inside was getting into her car. It was a little after 8pm. My wife struck up a short conversation with her, something to the effect that it was quitting time. She said she was heading to her SECOND FULL TIME job at Walmart. She worked there after her cafeteria job from 9pm until 5am. Since they are probably both minimum wage or close type jobs, she's putting in 16 hours a day, 80 hours/week. she's a single mom with a 14 year old son and a second child of unknown age having to work 80 frigging hours a week. Unbelievable. All I could think about was *'s family values BS, repuke's fighting against higher wages. We are living through the the early 20th century again, the robber barons have risen like vampires from their crypts.