Re: RC: Re: Diesel info

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/17/00 10:16:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
superpat@gateway.net writes:

<< Maybe a few cents higher but I really don't mind all that much when it is
 freezing cold and wet outside. But more than that, it does provide jobs for
 many and in this age of automation, I am all for preserving or creating jobs
 even if they are on the low end of the wage scale. >>

The problem with "creating" jobs in such a fashion is that those who actually 
produce something continue to pay a bigger and bigger piece of the pie.  
We've already priced ourselves out of what many low-end jobs are worth and 
have destroyed them with minimum wage laws--one reason our kids don't learn 
to work before they get that gas station job is because they haven't been 
allowed to work at menial jobs where they are paid what they are worth, which 
isn't very much.  If the pimple-faced kid who seems troubled by your 
intrusion at the gas pumps had grown up picking berries by the box in the 
summer, or some similar task, he'd likely have a hop-to-it work ethic 
already, and would have your windshield washed as soon as he gets your pump 
going, trying to give you some extra service so that you remain loyal to the 
station, thereby further justifying what he is paid.

Heidi