I’m playing John Dickinson, a role I first played over thirty years ago…yikes!
For the search engines, the show runs June 30-August 5, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at 2:30. You can reserve seats by calling 409-762-3556 or toll free 877-762-3556.
from Cato-at-Liberty.org: Minimum Wage: From the Horse’s Mouth:
Via the admitedly pro-business Employment Policies Institute, a funny anecdote regarding this whole minimum wage debate:
The generally accepted leading advocacy group for so-called “living wage” laws around the country is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. In it’s Resource Guide for activists, written by David Reynolds of the Wayne State University Labor Studies Center, ACORN casts aside concerns about minimum wage laws resulting in fewer jobs for low-wage workers, scolding
That’s low road thinking, the kind of philosophy that seeks short-term increases in the bottom-line by directly lowering costs and casts high wages, benefits, and other worker protections as obstacles to competition.
But in 1995, ACORN actually went to court in California in an attemp to exempt ACORN from that state’s minimum wage and overtime laws. Why? Well, according to ACORN’s brief in an appeal of the ruling against them:
…the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker – either because of minimum wage or overtime requirements – the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce couldn”t have said it any better.
In Austin for my friend Katherine’s wedding to a wonderful gent named Ross. I sang “What a Difference a Day Made” to open the proceedings, which were expertly officiated by my friend Kristen, at whose wedding to George I officiated…guess Katherine’ll need to continue the cycle. Currently I’m smoking a nice Montecristo that Ross’s best man Stuart brought. There’re about 20 of us on the upstairs balcony of the Caswell House, enjoying the full moon behind the Capitol, a picture of which I’ll post when I can.