On 60 Minutes tonight, Weeper of the House John Boehner was asked about raising the federal minimum wage above the current $7.25 per hour, as proposed by the president. Boehner replied with jobs-killer boilerplate, claiming that he worked all sorts of "awful" minimum wage jobs as a kid, and had the minimum wage been higher at that time, he'd never have been hired.
Two points:
1. His assertion is preposterous and illogical bullshit. In any era, minimum wage is whatever it is, and it ain't much. If it goes up, as it has many times before, employers must adjust, and they do, without mass layoffs. (Those few who can't adjust fail, as they should. Sooner or later, labor costs go up. Deal with it.)
2. If the Orange Man really believes what he essentially said -- "At $1.65/hour I was employable, but at, say, $1.95/hour I'd have been a pariah" -- then the young Boehner must have been a truly rotten little SOB.
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