Number 1 drives me nuts. Higher minimum wages severely hurt people who have worked their whole lives to get up to $20 an hour. That is the case because a burger flipping teen making $20 an hour causes the prices of everything to become inflated (especially at places like McDonald's where the high wages have caused their prices to skyrocket). Why should a person with no experience have the same buying power as somebody who has worked their arse off their entire life.
Are these people really this dumb. Now we have to worry about ground water becoming too hot to drink in less than 100 years? Seriously? Even if it did become too hot to drink did they ever think of letting it cool off for a few minutes. This is so stupid it makes my head hurt!
Groundwater Will Be Too Hot to Drink for 75 Million People by 2100 | Watch (msn.com)
Compassion according to the left
1. We must make the minimum wage as high as possible because ... compassion
Yes, it's very compassionate when businesses go bankrupt because they are unable to pay their employees
2. We must have open borders and let as many immigrants in as possible because ... compassion
Yes, it's very compassionate when citizens have increased waiting times because of all the "oppressed" immigrants getting free and prioritized healthcare for their tax money
3. We must never punish our children for anything because that hurts and ... compassion
Yes, it's very compassionate to let your children grow up as spoiled brats with no moral constraints
As the say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Historically, at least after the Europeans arrived, it sounds like smoke season was very much a thing. This is from an 1898 Seattle PI article:
There is general satisfaction felt among the railroad and lumber men at the scarcity of fires this year. Annually, the immense forests of Washington have fallen prey to the carelessness of hunters and campers. Each year millions of feet of valuable timber have been destroyed and many homes and ranches have been devastated. The air was murky, and tourists who came to the coast complained of the smoke and the inability to see the splendid sights that nature furnished.
You know it must have been common place if they were noting on the years that weren't overly smokey.
And this is from Olympia in 1872 appreciating the loveliness of our summer weather save the couple smoke filled days each year.
“[D]uring the summer months and till late in the fall, barring some smoky days occasioned by forest fires, we have the most genial and lovely weather anywhere prevailing on the continent.”