Originally posted by setz

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I don't see how the parents should be made responsible.

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I would say it is the parents responsibilty to teach children not to kill themselves, to monitor the TV that the children watch, and to let the children know, if they do allow them to watch hangings, what exactly is happening and why they should not do it.

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Originally posted by Rom Manic

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A virus is a group of single cell organisms acting in a malicious manner when in contact with other living organisms. They are quite alive.

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Originally posted by Dr_Death16

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I disagree, especially with such a large rise in the minimum wage. Rises in the minimum wage decrease on-the-job training, weakening the amount of skilled workers in the job market, simple fact. Also, it helps encourage hiring illegal workers at a wage lower than the minimum because an illegal won't be very apt to rat the company out or know the laws. Guess what? A minimum wage is supposed to help the people near poverty level; people like single-parent mothers working their asses off to stay alive. In all actuality, this has been studied and it is more likely that someone like a secondary wage earner in a multi-income earning household would get one of these new minimum wage jobs, like some random wife in a relatively wealthy household who wants a job. Hardly helping the impoverished. I see no point in it, at all, if it isn't significantly benefiting the people who need it most, those inner-city mothers and people in similar poverty-level situations. Also, economics people might remember that minimum wages are price floors in the labor market, which in principle, causes a surplus of labor offered by the people (unemployment, in other words). Eventually, the labor market is paying for less work, may it be less total hours offered or just plain less jobs kept.

Clinton, in a stroke of good thinking, gave states and even individual cities the ability to raise the minimum wage for themselves on a case-by-case basis. I think that was sufficient, this new law is both unnecessary and counterproductive.

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Originally posted by Ziff

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Because that is not how inflation or cost of living work

I'm for a high minimum wage because it makes it easier for the working class to lift itself out of it. It allows more upward social mobility and in cases of downward movements, people can get back up.

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