Jeez.
Many, if not most minimum wage jobs in the US cannot be exported. The manufacturing jobs have already left. But there is no way that the burgerflipper at the local Burgerboy can be exported.
Anyway, if $5.00 was fair in 1990, then how is $6.00 after inflation not fair now? It is LESS MONEY.
Up there in Congress, there are many people working very, very hard to see that YOUR job is not busted doiwn a pay grade, and that the parts you repair are not exported to Zamboanga to be fixed for $2.00 a day. I doubt if many of these are actually the Republicans you so deeply worship, either.
To you, the Goverment is the problem. But you fail to recognize that to those of us who have not been paid by Uncle Sugar, YOU are the government, wasting vast ampounts of moola repairing obsolete aircraft that will never defend any of us from anything whatever, Preparing the Blue Angels for massive recreational wastes of Jato to wow the rubes and hicks. Sure, it's not your call to decide that some of the aircraft are useless, but we have to pay, don't we?
The mere fact that all the excess supply of weapons exist pretty much assure that there will be wars, wars, and more wars. If some dickhead had not stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, there woud hae been no 9-11. Hell, they allowed them to pass out Arabic Jesus books on the streets of Dahrein.