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You know, I realized something while reading this article: Let's suppose that this raising of the minimum wage thing is not a progressive attempt to increase everyone's worth nor to cash in on getting more taxes and regulating businesses more and more.

In a down market, a highly skilled and temperamented worker will have no choice but to work a minimum wage job or two...this will leave the younger less experienced worker at a disadvantage...not just disadvantaged but outright disempowered from learning an important life long lesson: How to produce and create value in the work place, how to behave in that work place and learn work place work ethics. Sometimes these are hard learned lessons but once they are learned that young person will apply these lessons over their working life, whether they work for someone else or for themselves, not to mention learning how to be fiscally responsible among a host of other life lessons. In short, these young folks, having these experience will likely never have to depend upon pappa and momma government.

Now, raising the minimum wage would force this to happen, also forcing small and low wage skill businesses to look for alternatives in order to stay in business and to stay competitive. But...what does this do to the older more experienced worker? Wouldn't this disempower them also...in spite of the higher wage offer, even if it was close to that persons previous wage. We are forgetting the importance of, responsibility and satisfaction,; never mind having to work doing menial tasks, which would have to be boring as hell; wouldn't this play a role in that persons self worth?, his ability to provide for himself and family and even with the most humble person with family understanding, isn't this the biggest downer a man or women might experience. Might they, in an effort and even justifiably so, try to recoup some of that lost income from the very government that created this situation in the first place? Even if they have always been self supporting their whole life up to this point? It happens.

We might be tempted to say these individuals are weak and can't compete...but how many of us that haven't had the benefit of a skill set that can be applied to many occupations could effectively deal with this situation.

Those of us that have these widely marketable skill sets or even hobbies that could turn a buck are the lucky ones...we had those life long lessons at an early age...but what of those that came after us?

What I'm asking here is: Could this be the progressive reason and plan to get us all, young and old to be more dependent on government and perhaps to break our spirit in some respect?