I am white & for some reason I think a lot of those bad mouthing minorities at this time are white also.

I think that running down those that are in the minority now stems from the fact that that the day is coming when The whites in this country becomes the minority.

It is not fun being in the minority.

Rather than me fight the issue I hope that they find a way not to blame me for what others have done to them.

I say there is room in my world for them now & I hope there is room for me in their world later.

Or are many of them going to look to Putin to save the day for the white race?

Do we decide to get along with every body & save what we have or fight it & loose what we have?

We are at the cross road now. Time is not going to be kind to us.

I am white & for some reason I think a lot of those bad mouthing minorities at this time are white also.

I think that running down those that are in the minority now stems from the fact that that the day is coming when The whites in this country becomes the minority.

It is not fun being in the minority.

Rather than me fight the issue I hope that they find a way not to blame me for what others have done to them.

I say there is room in my world for them now & I hope there is room for me in their world later.

Or are many of them going to look to Putin to save the day for the white race?

Do we decide to get along with every body & save what we have or fight it & loose what we have?

We are at the cross road now. Time is not going to be kind to us.

When you have conflicting experts, like economists, on subjects like minimum wage one either should concede that he is incapable of determining who is right and therefore hold no opinion. The other approach might be to apply common sense to commons sense things that you know. Let me try that on minimum wages - and let me know if any of the simple statements I made in applying common sense are wrong in your opinion.

If wages are increased, all else being equal, all those engaged in profit making business will do one of the following, or a combination of the following:
- if the job is "portable" move it to a location where the wage has not been increased and therefore became more competitive, and/or;
- look to somehow automate the work, and the more expensive the work, all else being equal, the more cost justifiable capital investment would be, and/or;
- increase the price of the product/service that the work produces, and as happens when a product or service becomes more expensive, all else being equal, the demand for it will decrease.

Each of those outcomes all lead to a decrease in the jobs.

Further, all else being equal the wages one earns in a market based economy is largely driven by the demand for the work and the supply of the workers seeking it. For those jobs at or near minimum wage, those with low skills and education are the ones most likely to be working on them.

If we increase the supply of low skilled people by importing them in large numbers, legally or not so much legal, we suppress the wage scale for them. Further, if we allow our schools to, for whatever reason, generate many more non-skilled and uneducated people entering the workforce, we further suppress the wage scale. If one doubts that we're doing that in our educations system, one needs but look at our urban schools, both the graduation rates and the achievement rates of those that graduate.

So, by making it more expensive to employ people - and there are many programs in addition to minimum wage that does that - Obamacare but one of the more recent - thereby decreasing the number of low skilled jobs - and by making sure the number of unskilled workers far exceeds the number of positions they can aspire to we make certain that the number of people who are not afforded the opportunity for economic independence.

I think it is clear that those who are most responsible for both ends of that spectrum are those who most expect to gain votes for themselves

In a sense you're right. If either party gave a rat's ass about the poor they would have taken steps to fix the real problem decades ago. The Republicans have had plenty of opportunity, but the goal of both parties is not to fix anything! Fix the problems and who the hell needs a government? See, the real problem isn't the minimum wage, or Obamacare or unemployment. The real problem is the Fed and our fiscal policy. The Fed is their sacred cow. It's the source of their freedom to spend us into oblivion knowing goddam well they're devaluing our take home pay and sending blue collar jobs overseas. The Fed can vomit all the cash they need. It costs them nothing and imposes a hidden tax on every dollar in existence. But they'll keep us distracted with penny ante bullshit while they secretly milk us for all they can get out of us. Raising the minimum wage now is a good ploy, but that little extra in the wallet won't be there for long. You can bet they already know that.