re: #1 Indy GOP Refugee

Can you show me where the author can close a Page? We can unpublish but not close as far as I know. Sure it costs more to live in Manhattan and Los Angeles. That does not mean the discussion should be one sided.

Load your page, it says “Comments are closed.” I presume you did that.

It’s undeniable that the increases in cost of living within cities like L.A. have vastly outpaced the rest of the country. The fact is that the buying power of the national minimum wage hasn’t even come close to keeping up. Your yourself characterized the Valley Hotel worker min wage increase as being the result of “unrestrained organized labor,” and tried to make it out as if those workers would now be paid far more than an inflation adjusted minimum wage would justify.

The problem with your argument of course is that those workers, by virtue of where they have to live, must deal with actual expenses that far outstrip both inflation and the national cost of living. In reality their new higher wage, which you clearly tried to characterize as controversial and much higher than the situation warrants, still doesn’t match the old 1968 national minimum wage when it is adjusted for both inflation and the current cost of living multiplier of the L.A. area over the national average.