Hans Roth: Minimum wage won’t allow for a steak dinner

I’m 81 years old. To supplement my Social Security income, I work part-time at minimum wage of $9 per hour. After all the deductions, I clear around $7 per hour. Gas in Murphys is $3.73 per gallon. We went shopping at Save Mart the other day and I thought it would be nice to have a steak for dinner since we hadn’t had one in a long time. The steak was $15.95 (for one). I would have had to work more than 2 hours to buy that one steak.

Thank you, Mr. Obama; your plan to “level the playing field” isn’t working. Needless to say, no steak dinner, just more chicken until feathers grow out our ears.

This story was originally published May 21, 2015 at 11:44 AM with the headline "Hans Roth: Minimum wage won’t allow for a steak dinner."