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Facebook.com/WatsonPonteVedra 4 COMMUNITY NEWS Ponte Vedra Recorder · August 29, 2019 OPINION Cheers to Labor Day a time to celebrate booming economy As Labor Day approaches, mil- the American success story. That honor goes to the lions of Americans will jump in free-market principles of capitalism championed by the their cars and hit the road for one Republican Party. 50 Years! last getaway before Summer 2019 The track record on raising the minimum wage is clear. John Wayne, Glen Campbell comes to an end. And one of the When government forces private business owners to bumper stickers you may see on raise wages to an arbitrary level not supported by supply and the Ponte Vedra Recorder the highway that always makes and demand, business owners are invariably forced to me laugh is the one that says, “The either reduce workers’ hours or lay off people entirely By Christine Rodenbaugh Labor Movement: the folks who — resulting in greater unemployment, not less. Even So- The movie “True Grit” debuted in July 1969 starring Brandon Patty brought you the weekend.” cialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proved this John Wayne as whiskey-drinking, eye-patch wearing Guest Columnist Not quite. lesson. When Sanders’ campaign workers pointed out “Rooster” Cogburn recruited by a feisty teenager to find While it’s true that 19th century that his $15-an-hour rhetoric didn’t match what he was her father’s killer. Glen Campbell labor unions campaigned for shorter working hours paying them, he announced he would indeed raise their co-stars as Le Beouf as the three — specifically, an eight-hour workday when 12- and wages to the inexplicably magical $15 an hour.