Roland Gutierrez: “our majority leader tells us that the minimum wage is a bad idea, and that he should know. After all Mr. Armey was a…”

“our majority leader tells us that the minimum wage is a bad idea, and that he should know. After all Mr. Armey was a college economics professor. Well, maybe he should have taught home economics instead. Every home economics teacher knows about food costs and how far you have to stretch dollars to feed your family. A home economics teacher shows students how to make meals and bake cookies, but also tells that you have to skip some dinners and desserts if you cannot afford them. And, even though it is a concept far too complicated for someone with a Ph.D. in economics, the fact is that you cannot afford those dinners and deserts if your wages never go up, but minimum wage opponents are not looking at you and your family, they are looking at charts and graphs. They are not looking at your kitchen table, they are looking at tables of statistics. Well, hard-working Americans earning minimum wage are not statistics. They are real people trying to earn a decent, livable wage. So, I say to minimum wage opponents, maybe you got a Ph.D. in economics, but you get an ``F'' when it comes to the real economics of real families.”