# federal minimum wage increase ... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 10, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/federal-minimum-wage-increase/22862 "2007-01-10T10:26:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/federal-minimum-wage-increase/22862/36 "2007-01-10T16:17:39Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > Know what this thread needs? More opinions from economists, and less opinions from people that have no clue. :word: > [@95Z28](#): > > The thing that pisses me off is back when I was like 14…standing over a fucking dishwasher at a restaurant kitchen sweating my nutsack off, working till 3 in the morning on a friday night for like 4.75 an hour…Now some kid can go out, do the same job (or something better) and make 2.50 more an hour. Just like you are pissing off the guy that had to walk to school back when he was 14 with cardboard taped to his feet UPHILL, while you were wearing Nikes riding the bus 😛 _It’s called progress people…_ --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/federal-minimum-wage-increase/22862)._