Absolutely stupid idea that somehow raising the minimum wage will help those people making low wages! What happens to the people on fixed income who do not get the proportionate increase? How about the wealthy who then want to raise their rents because their hamburgers and french fries cost more? What happens to the people who try to enter the workforce or got severed from it? Just how much more DIFFICULT would it be for them to pay their rent when housing prices would go up as a result? What happens to the people who are at the new minimum wage right this moment? They would be angry for the ordinarily less qualified or easier positions getting the same wage. You create more strife in the workplace as a result. Then you get those at that margin wanting to get a pay increase! What happens when the wages increase so much that JOB OUTSOURCING to other countries becomes even more attractive? LOSS OF JOBS OF COURSE! We already have much of our jobs going to Asia, India, Mexico and South America! Now with the opening up of Cuba, expect to see several more MILLION jobs outsourced to this country alone! MY OH MY! Why do I have to be the one to help show the way? Why are our leaders so ignorant? They should not be so ignorant as the common people but evidently they are! YOU FIX THE PROBLEM BY ADDRESSING THE UNDERLYING ISSUES! Why do low wage earners face such big problems today? BECAUSE THE COST OF LIVING IS SO HIGH! THEN JUST ADDRESS WHY THE COST OF LIVING IS SO HIGH! Come on folks, start applying yourselves! It's stupidity from the top-down. It feeds into the inflation problem! Go to the site: PROPOSED SOLUTIONS for the answers to our problems actually addressing the underlying issues! Keep the wages the same but make the cost of living LESS! Do you people even understand? Feeding into the inflation game does not correct the problem, it feeds into it! If rents were in half would you then be complaining for a higher wage? Of course not! You'd have more than you need to prosper yet you silly people go into the symptom not the disease! Make a reasonable limit on the number of homes any one person may own then the wealthy and otherwise other haters of humanity who seek to make their big gains in life off the less advantaged would have to let go of a good deal of their properties thereby increasing the supply per demand of homes for sale which would lower the prices and rents would go down in concert. Now do you really want to fix the problem or make it worse? Now just why our taxes so high? Government employees keep getting pay raise after pay raise and they work so slow thereby causing more to be hired. We could save $1 TRILLION per year if the populace would stand behind me in getting rid of some of these under-worked, overpaid, bad attitude government loafers and paying the remainder at 15% below that of the private sector. NOW JUST HOW MUCH BETTER THOSE AT LOW WAGES WOULD BE WHEN WE HAVE TO PAY LESS TAXES TO SUPPORT THE HIGH SALARIES OF OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS? There was a time when government employees were our truly public servants when they took their jobs seriously and were not trying to RUIN AMERICA with their outlandish compensation packages! When the "servant" makes more than their masters and furthermore snub the public any chance they get, something is terribly wrong! Now how about when nurses were going on strike as they compared their workload and salaries with that of doctors? It happened numerous times around 1980. Just as in the book, "Thoughtful Living", had nurses not played into the INFLATION game like people are doing now with wanting a large increase in the minimum wage and instead bargained to LOWER THE SALARIES OF DOCTORS (the essential problem would be solved), then your COST OF HEALTH CARE WOULD BE LOWER ! But the usual method employed by common people is to say "someone makes this much, look at me, I want to make more" as opposed to "someone makes this much and makes little sense in relation to what I am making, so let's do what we can to REDUCE the inordinately high income of the one in contention to a reasonable amount". LET US STOP PLAYING INTO THE INFLATION GAME!