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I worked on 7 Days.

Actually, Seven Days at Minimum Wage is a pretty moving, week-long series of gonzo journalism interviews of hardworking Americans trying to make ends meet on $5.15 an hour. Roseanne lent her name and time to the project (she's been an ACORN supporter for several years, and I fail to see how that's a bad thing).

Denigrating the 7 Days project like you just did is telling Jessica and her kids, Jeffrey and his family, Susan, and Erin, and everyone else we interviewed for the project who are working their asses off just to keep a roof over their head and food on their table that they are worthy of nothing more than a punch line.

News flash: that's not cool. Come view Jessica's story (today, day four) and then tell me her life is a joke.

Mike,
I work my ass off every day on a relatively low wage. This blog represents me.

So you dissing this blog is telling me that I'm nothing more than just a punch line?

Newsflash: You can go suck Castro's balls. YOUR life is a joke because YOU exploit people like Jessica to promote YOUR views.

I won't comment on 7 days because I haven't seen it.

On the other hand, Roseanne is one celebrity I've never understood. I could never understand why she was popular. She used to have a talk show on British TV. I used to catch it when I was in Europe (not through choice, it was only English language channel we had). Watching this talentless, unhinged woman babble like an idiot was truly something to see. You could probably find a woman at random at your local Dunkin' Donuts who was funnier (and more stable) than she is.

So she had a TV show a one time. So did Jeff Foxworthy. So did Andrew Dice Clay for that matter.

10-15 years ago I was working a crappy minimum wage job stocking grocery shelves and bagging groceries.

Then I got an education and Im now making 4 times that much money - over $20/hour.

Too many people like "Mike" think they should be able to just sit back and the government should force companies to pay them X number of dollars. This is the kind of thinking that pervades countries like Cuba and that place is literally crumbling to dust. If you go there be sure to walk in the middle of the street to avoid collapsing buildings.

If you dont like what a company is paying, start looking for another job.

As for Roseanne she is just a wealthy gas bag. Its funny how the rich in Hollywood sit in their multimillion dollar mansions screeching about the virtues of socialism while hording their wealth and spending 95% of it on themselves.

Mike is playing the left's latest trick on us. Bring out a 'victim' or 'spokestool' that is somehow immune from criticism and accuse the right of being 'insensitive', 'mean spirited', 'racist' blah, blah, blah when they do find a flaw in the argument.

(Cindy Sheehan, the Jersey Girls, Michael J. Fox fit this mold exactly)

Mike made me feel Doug had gone too far, then Doug came back with a one-two punch and WHAM-ZOWIE. Now I have to agree more with Doug.

I can relate to families who are struggling on minimum wage, in fact I've spent a good deal of money bailing out friends/family who are always needing something...money for rent, medicines, utilities, a new stove, something for the kids, etc. So it's not a matter of being for or against people on minimum wage, they are just people, just folks like you and me.

The problem comes first when you are unable to live within your means and make ends no matter how hard you try. And second when you are exploited for the purposes of others who have their own goals to further.

Raising the minimum wage would further the cause of some people but in the end the costs of goods and services will always even out. Where do you think the money comes from? Employers will just raise prices. It's not like the big boss is going to lower his own salary to pay for a minimum wage hike. I have talked to some people who honestly feel this is a way to get a raise. People work for low pay for years and years and want a raise and rely on the federal government to give it to them. That's socialism. They honestly believe that it's perfectly okay to raise the wages on every single minimum wage person in the country regardless of skill, just so they get more money. I understand the point of view changes the closer you are to the poverty line, and my late father-in-law working as a construction worker his whole life was always happy when a minimum wage hike gave him a little lift.

But there's no good answers, and as much as I may feel sorry for the people in the 7 days thing, raising the minimum wage will not solve their problems. Tugging on our heartstrings won't change reality or twist the laws of economics into strange and unnatural shapes.

And those who helped in the making of the show probably genuinely feel sorry for them and want to help them, but I really believe they are misguided. Making the whole world feel like working for minimum wage is some kind of horrible thing isn't the answer! Minimum wage exists for a reason. Raising it again and again is just a short term fix.

And no, it is NOT George Bush's fault that you never finished college, or got pregnant and had to drop out of highschool, or that you simply do not have the skillset to be an executive, or that your boss didn't like you and found a way to outsource your job so you had to get a job at the kwickie mart. That's just life.