Back when I was in high school I started out making minimum wage. As I started switching from job to job, I started landing jobs that paid above minimum wage. That is the way it works. You start out low and start moving up.
Well of course the San Diego City Council passed it. What it means is that anyone who works for the city, or contracts with the city will pay thier workers a minimum wage of $10 with benefits or $12 an hour without benefits.
Well, happy bankruptcy San Diego. And farewell Tony Young, you have lost a constituent. These people are so stupid I can't believe they got elected.
Now the city will have to pay more for sevices, more for thier workers, and the City does not have the money. So as you bleeding heart handout folks may have a happy night, and the brainless morons I saw speaking on the news say they can now raise thier families I would like them to look back at this night in a few months.
Minimum wage increases are not free. After they are implemented, the folks having to pay the higher wages must increase thier prices to cover the loss. They are not going to give it out of the kindness of thier hearts as they are in business to make money. So now everyone pays more for the services. This means inflation which means the prices go up. Now the folks that got the raises are right back in the same boat.
There are those that say this will not affect them but I have to beg to differ. Let's take the folks that clean up the offices. If they have a contract with the city they have to raise what they pay thier workers now. These same folks provide services to other businesses. The other businesses such as you local mall now have to pay more for the services so they will charge the businesses in the mall higher prices. The shop owners will get that back by raising thier prices. So everyone is hurt and everyone pays. Within a few months these folks will not even have thier games realized and may in fact have lower spending power for thier higher wages.
As the city goes down the tubes I have to laugh. These folks are still spending like it is going out of style. The way these floks are spending would have me tossed in jail. If I wrote a check for $5,000 and only had $1,000 in my bank I would be in serious trouble, but not the San Diego City Council. Spend, spend, spend. Maybe they will also go ahead and give themselves a pay raise before the city goes broke.
All I can say is I am starting to get happy feet. It is just about time to abandon this sinking ship.
