Minimum wage and the decline of America...

It seems that many mistake the minimum wage as a "proper" wage an adult should begin a job. The minimum wage was never designed to support an adult.

Rather, the minimum wage is for those entering the workforce for the very first time. I live here in California. Here, the wage necessary for an adult to provide his/her support from would be very close to ten dollars an hour. This would NOT be a wage where one would be "getting ahead" on. Rather, it would only be providing for their most minimal support--roof over their head, ability to replace clothes as fast as they wore them out, cheap meals, little entertainment, minimal medical care and prescriptions, etc....

However, the starving and oppressed people, mainly from Mexico and So. America are too willing to work at less than wages which will support an individual in a maintainable manner, while keeping ones health.

What can we do about it? Write our congressmen? Protest? Complain?

I think we first need to realize this is exactly what our representatives, the president and the wealthy have in mind for America. A country of haves vs. have-nots. A country where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. A country where some people feel they are just plain entitled to more than others. A country much like the old Rome.

I think this is a place where one is not free and in danger...

JS