Comrade Anklebiter in the news:
No thanks. Jobs are hard enough to find in this economy.
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Raise wages, people are happy for a few years until the cost of living creeps up at a slightly higher rate to make up for how much money the people are making, people suddenly need minimum wage to rise to help feed their families.
Here is a concept people should look into: How about STOP TRYING TO RAISE A FAMILY BY WORKING DRIVE-THRU AT MCDONALDS! GET A REAL FRIGGIN' JOB, LEAVE THE MINIMUM WAGE CRAP FOR THE PEOPLE THEY ARE MEANT FOR- PEOPLE FINDING A FIRST JOB OR WORKING THROUGH SCHOOL! DON'T GET YOUR GIRLFRIEND PREGNANT OR YOURSELF PREGNANT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A FUTURE PLAN THAT IS SLIGHTLY MORE ROBUST THAN ROLLING UP BURRITOS AT TACO BELL! I DON'T WANT TO PAY EXTRA FOR MY FOOD SO JOHN AND SUSIE MOUTHBREATHER CAN AFFORD TO FLOOD THE WORLD WITH THEIR LIL' MOUTHBREATHER KIDS! LET'S EMPOWER AND PROTECT THE STUPID SO WE CAN FILL THE WORLD WITH STUPID PEOPLE!
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Well, the cost of living went right on up without the minimum wage, so your first theory is total bunk. Your second theory, is disqualified just on grounds of being in all caps, not to mention quite how dumb it is to blame people for having kids when every single instinct in the human brain is designed just to have a chance at reproduction. And then there's the large swaths of the country which do everything possible to avoid all the things that prevent people getting pregnant (lack of comprehensive sex education, restricting access to birth control, restricting access to abortions). That's not even counting the people who had good jobs, and then lost them in the recession, like the 4,425,000 or so that lost their jobs just in 2008. Frankly i find your hypothesis flawed.
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How about STOP TRYING TO RAISE A FAMILY BY WORKING DRIVE-THRU AT MCDONALDS! GET A REAL FRIGGIN' JOB,
What a great idea. Why don't you help me pick a job off the job tree where you seem to think it grows? And not just a "job," but a "REAL FRIGGIN' JOB"?
The unemployment rate has not been below 6% since mid 2008. The U-6 underemployment rate is closer to 15%. And more than 50% of the jobs created since the start of the economic recovery have been at or near minimum wage.... so even if you have a full-time job and hence are not counted as part of U-6, there's a good sporting chance you're still working at minimum wage because that's the only job you've been able to find.
Oh, and the economists have done the statistics to death. The reality-influenced economists, the ones who actually look at historical data and do science, as opposed to the ideologues who have been predicting runaway inflation since the start of the 2008 stimulus package (and are therefore obviously wrong) find no relationship between increasing the minimum wage and inflation. So the idea that raising the minimum wage will cause "the cost of living [to creep] up at a slightly higher rate to make up for how much money the people are making" is also likely to be very wrong.
LET'S EMPOWER AND PROTECT THE STUPID SO WE CAN FILL THE WORLD WITH STUPID PEOPLE!
... and then apparently they can post stupid, ill-informed economic rants on gaming web sites. IN ALL CAPS.
I found this research interesting. (Note, it's a pdf)
Admittedly, it's about whether or not increasing the minimum wage increases unemployment, but that's still relevant to the issue.
Personally, I support an increase. The cost of living rises regardless of the minimum wage, and the idea that only teens are, or should be, working minimum wage jobs is a fallacy. In today's labour market, you take what you can get, because it might be (resume killing) months before you have a chance at something else.