AlfredoTurkey on 03 February 2016
| JetSetter said: Also people have to realize that the minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage in the first place. |
This is what FDR said (the man who created minimum wage).
"In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."
