The Laborer is worthy of his hire.

Some more thoughts on Labor Day.

I live in Orlando where our primary industry is tourism and most jobs offer only the minimum wage or something close to it. We talk about a "living wage" which ends up being a couple of bucks more than minimum.

The reality is that with employees there are certain unavoidable costs. Let's enumerate them: a place to live (shelter), food, clothing, utilities, transportation, health care. If you live in an area like ours, where the public transportation is minimal, you must have an automobile. All of these things add up and they must be paid for, if not in wages, then in taxes and donations.

When people have no insurance or resources they must turn to tax supported clinics and the emergency rooms. These things have to be paid for one way or the other.This means we can't run around saying no more taxes, when taxes are needed to pay for services provided for those whose wages are too low to pay for them.

This is a real problem and we have to get real and stop ranting the political slogans of the right and left. We need leadership that will focus on solving the problem.