Kerry's minimum wage

Jeffrey M. Herbener, chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College, takes a very dim view of Mr. Kerry and his promise to raise the minimum wage.

Even if Kerry is an Economics 101 dropout, one would think that witnessing labor unions lobby for higher minimum wages during his many years in the Senate would have aroused his suspicions about who benefits from such legislation. Since union members are already being paid well above the minimum wage, union officials must recognize what Kerry seems not to see: that raising the minimum wage makes the lowest-wage workers unemployable and, thus reduces their competitiveness with union workers.

Creating an underclass of low-skilled, unemployable persons is, perhaps, the most socially malignant way imaginable to raise union wages.

Pandering. It's what Kerry does. Minimum wage, universal health care. These are the made to order issues for Kerry - consistent with his voting record. He knows they don't work and he knows they won't do what he promises they will. Votes are for show anyway. "I voted for it before I voted against it."