Minimum Wage

An email attributed to Jennifer Harris that arrived today in my inbox.

Okay, rant – For those fast food employees striking for $15 an hour, let’s do some math.  At $15 an hour Johnny Fry-Boy would make $31,200 annually. An E1 (Private) in the military makes $18,378. An E5 (Sergeant) with 8 years of service only makes $35,067 annually. So you’re telling me Sally McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as those kids getting shot at, deployed for months in hostile environments, and putting their collective asses on the line every day protecting your unskilled butt? Here’s the deal Baconator, you are working in a job designed for a kid in high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas, and hanging out with their equally goody high school pals.  If you have chosen this as your life long profession, you have failed.

If you don’t want minimum wage don’t have minimum skills.

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to ‘citizens of United States’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life’. That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

What is Globalization?

A definition of globalization that even I can understand and to which I now can relate:

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English Princess

With an Egyptian boyfriend

Crashes in a French tunnel,

Riding in a German Car

With a Dutch engine,

Driven by a Belgian

Who was drunk

On Scottish whisky,

(check the bottle before you change the spelling),

Followed closely by

Italian Paparazzi,

On Japanese motorcycles,

Treated by an American doctor,

Using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by

A Canadian,

Using American

Bill Gates' technology,

And

You’re probably reading

This on your computer,

That uses Taiwanese chips,

And

A Korean monitor,

Assembled by Bangladeshi Workers

In a Singapore plant,

Transported by Indian truck drivers,

Hijacked by Indonesians,

Unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

And

Trucked to you by Mexicans who

Are in the US illegally

Because

The current president,

Born in Kenya

And

Educated as a Muslim in Indonesia

Refuses to enforce US law.

That, my friends, is Globalization!

State of the Union

To Laugh

Doing Your Job