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I drive across the California central valley all the time, I see immigrant workers out in the fields making who know what, 6-8 bucks an hour? maybe more?  Then we have our own citizens collecting unemployment making more than those people out there working their butts off!  Are we such a rich nation that we can afford to pay people not to work?  I say no!  It is time people get cut off the goodies and get a job.  Maybe then they will appreciate the country we live in.

When minimum wage act was placed into law during the Roosevelt Administration, it helped to create the "Middle Class".  There  has always been opposition to minimum wage and even the eight hour day, all declared doom for the economy if enacted. These rights were put into law and the world did not come to an end; in fact that higher wages gave people the opportunity to have the money to buy their own homes and move to the white suburbs ( free of non-white people).  A lot of readers claim that minimum wage hurts the Middle Class, and that these wages were meant for young kids just wanting to have a little pocket change.  If the right has its way they would want to do away with minimum wage altogether, and if they do so there will not be a Middle Class.  In the 1970's the Auto Industry had 1.5 million workers, but now it has only 300,000 ( at lower wages ). The companies will pay you what ever they fell like paying you, and you will just have to love it or leave it.  If you destroy minimum wage; you won't like what you get. 

The last time the minimum wage went up with all fast-food chains spending millions to block, well what happened? Most of them lowered there prices, came up with new products (mac rib sandwich). All of them did the same thing. They are all open and doing business at higher profits. No complaints now, franchise's cost more and bringing in the money and they still get all the tax breaks. Banks are making record profits on higher and more new fees. So don't tell me the higher minimum wage will hurt anyone, small businesses will get by with government help. That's why big business doesn't care, banks won't loan small businesses and can't get loans, why? Big banks, all banks have found out they can keep our money and charge us for it. That's where the real money is, take our money. Lend it out to other big banks, charge us fees to hold it and they all get rich. But not the middle class. They don't have the money to play the rich mans game. They just get poorer and poorer. Every US Senator is a millionaire or will be by the time they leave office. We need more true middle class people in office, ones that really know how it is to scrape by. Cut congresses staff, tie their insurance to the same as ours, state by state. Give Wal-Mart a chance to get into Banks and insurance. Completely take away oil company subsidies. Let the middle class get elected by not allowing any donations above a certain amount. No campaigning on work time. Do it on week ends. Stop electing dentists and doctors to national office because it pays better than being a Doctor and Dentist. Don't forget the founding fathers weren't God. They aren't still sitting up there making laws and changing the Constitution as it should be as time goes by and our lives change. Never block a voter from voting, lets vote online or thru absentee ballots. No need to all show up on certain days. Just let them vote, isn't that the main intent of our constitution. No representation with out the right to vote.

As a farmer's wife, we do not give any drugs to cattle.  What happens to them after we sell at market ,we are not responsible for.  We have struggled with drought, army worms, etc. just trying to keep our cattle with hay through the winter.  Give the farmers a break.

If this bothers you, please buy your beef or any other proteins from a producer.  I raise cattle in South Dakota and they do not get any growth hormones or antibiotics.  You will almost ALWAYS get a better product from a small business than a m****duction corporation.  That goes for all products, not just food.