[grania]

There wouldn't be a cry for absurd minimum wages if wages for competent long-duration workers with skills had kept pace with the cost of living. That would happen if supply and demand still existed. With invaders undermining the US citizen for jobs in the US and jobs being sent overseas for the cheap labor benefits, US workers have suffered.

It doesn't make sense that those competent, loyal long-term trained workers (two years or more) aren't making at least $12 an hour with the chance for at least 35 hours a week of work. That would be a living wage without government subsidies.

It shouldn't have to be a minimum age. In a functioning economy, it's what workers would be paid. Without that, people are fed up and are going to demand the gov do something.

[RipSawyer]

I have never believed in the minimum wage concept. For those who do believe it makes sense why ask for a measly fifteen dollars? If it really is that simple why not fifteen HUNDRED an hour? That way a person could work one eight hour shift a week and live like royalty the other six days. The comical part is that anyone but a raving lunatic finds my suggestion absurd but many of them think THEY know what minimum is reasonable.