First of all, thanks to Bobby for joining our intrepid band here.  Fresh blood is a good thing.  I admire Bobby’s pluck and the energy he brings.  Now for the other side of the coin …

You are a snob — in a twisted kind of way.  Your hero worship of ‘the common working man’ waxes lame and Leninist.  Being lame is well … lame! So is being a Leninist. I hope you get the picture.

I have worked construction doing both Carpentry and HVAC.  I have dug ditches. I currently work as an engineer in front of a computer doing something you call woman’s work.  In short, kiss my behind.  I studied long and hard to earn the skills I use today precisely because, having actually done manual labor, I found nothing romantic, overtly manly, or ennobling about doing manual labor.  I found it hard, and boring.  I also realized any moron could dig a ditch or wield a mop (did that as well).  For me, carpentry was interesting, as a hobby.

I look back on my efforts to get the engineering degree as one of the three most difficult things I have ever done.  Four years of sustained effort, working into the wee hours.  You ridicule this?  You are a ignorant.  Try getting healthy by going to a plumber when you need a doctor.  Try getting your teeth worked on by a stone mason, or a barber. Try getting a job from a janitor or a cashier.

As for the pay, why should a guy wielding a mop get paid as much as a guy who can design factory machines, cars, aircraft or piping systems?  Please answer that.  Can you?

The rarer the item the more it costs on the open market.  Precious stones cost more than glass because glass is easy to get, and plentiful.  Finding a ruby is hard work because it is rare.  The skill required to wield a mop is common, a Doctor is rare.  A pro-caliber ball player is rarer still.  The salaries reflect this.

Frankly, I have a question for you, “Why do you think a cashier should be paid minimum wage, as defined by some politician in Washington?”  Considering your apparent disdain for Washington, I imagine this answer will be interesting to say the least.

As for your ridiculous assertion that raising minimum wage helps workers or the economy, every time it is raised unemployment goes up, or the rate of hiring decreases, or both.  How is this a good thing?  Please explain how your greatly self-vaunted experience has lead to a conclusion 180 degrees out of phase with the historical track record of raising the minimum wage?

In the future, kindly refrain from calling me and others cowards or trying to threaten us.  First of all, you look like an idiot when you do that.  Second of all, none of us are scared by your threats, you only look like a sociopath.  Furthermore, what would you do if one of us called you out?  Hmmmm?

One last thing.  Waxing scatological, or couching your diatribes in the ‘Anglo-Saxon,’ does little to further your case.  Getting frustrated because we all don’t bow down and hail your ‘wisdom’ does not help you, it only makes you look weak and even more pathetic than you would look otherwise.