It's ridiculous how a person is expected to survive on 7.50 -9.00 an hour in 2009. I am goin to school and their isn't much i can do, and the jobs i find aren't going to be highly skilled. But 7.50 a fucin' hour. 7.50 won't even buy a happy meal.
Actually, in the US in 1930 there was no minimum wage. That started in 1938, at 25 cents an hour. And what do you consider the minimum wage itself to be if not government involvement?

If you want good pay, get the skills to get higher pay. If you're in school you might be doing that.

And I don't know what McDonald's you are going to, a Happy Meal at the ones near me are a lot less than $7.50, not that that has anything to do with anything.
well in the 1930's they were getting about 25 cents an hour
that's 8 dollars a week
most employers I have worked for pay according to how hard and how good your work is and I've started at the bottom at lots of jobs and gotten raises pretty quick al I do is work hard and try not to make mistakes
as far as the government getting involved not a good idea they screw up everything
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