When was the last time a "value" meal from McDonald, let alone any other fast food chain, did not cost five dollars or more? When was the last time premium gas was under a dollar a gallon? It's hard to remember, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great if everything cost a nickel, like back in the good ol' days? According to the laws of economics, it's not logical for things to have gotten more expensive …showed first 75 words of 699 total…

…showed last 75 words of 699 total…thing about the current minimum wage is that it is substantial enough to make teens respect their money, but also low enough to force them to save. It's been said that if we do not know our history, we will be doomed to repeat it. The argument over the minimum wage makes it abhorrently obvious that this statement is true. The time for action is now, before we are forced to start this cycle again.