Wrong, it just needs to provide a decent place to stay. All the things you mention are OPTIONAL.

Working in fast-food doesn't mean you're lazy...just that one doesn't yet have a skill or trade that our social institutions value...now that being said I know someone who makes 80k a year putting quotes on cute cat pictures and blogging...and that's real lazy job compared to someone making 15k a year "flipping burgers"...and there isn't enough jobs that pay a living wage for everyone...it's a class system someone has to be in the bottom...the real problem is that most people think they are mid class but really are dirt poor because of wealth distribution...all you people complaining about "poor lazy people" are just playing right into 1% who want the 99%. Fighting over that bone (1% percent wealth)

I think the market should decide what jobs pay.  If a job is worth X you get paid X, and a bunch of bureaucrats or politicians who've never even run a lemonade stand shouldn't pick some arbitrary number out of a hat.  Switzerland for example has no wages laws whatsoever and they have a 2.3% unemployment rate.

Conversely, I wouldn't mind a $15 an hour minimum wage if we A. didn't have such a lavish entitlement system B. we actually enforced our borders and immigration laws

No one gets hurt if they get $15/hr and an extra break, no one. It's that simple.

1. You claimed you worked for the Navy.
2. The Navy Provides Benefits
3. The Navy is part of the Government

4. Time and time again it doesn't, if anything the RICH corporations need to pay people better, the RICH have been getting RICHER and the poor have been getting POORER that's a fact.

5. What so the person with MINIMUM wage doesn't deserve Medical EXPENSES? I know people who were BANKRUPT because of Medical Expenses and due to them trying to be independent Became nearly Bankrupt and is now in Heavy DEBT due to an Accident.

Tuition Assistance, LOL, looking for more Handouts? Escpecially with people complaining that the Government already spends too much money you want to put a Bigger Burden on the Government?

Switzerland has some of the best public Schools and overall Health-care in general.
They pay Public School teachers a lot of moeny.

Over-all the standard of Living is much better in Switzerland, therefore people can get by much easier and worry less due to how Switzerland handles things. People can get by even with Minimum Wage jobs in Switzerland.

Healthcare is also MUCH MUCH MUCH more affordable in Switzerland. But honestly, seeing as how things are.

Corporations seem to want to same Standards as China to keep costs low, are you saying we should have the same Standards as China if Corporations have the freedom needed to do what they need to do to establish the same standards in China as in the U.S.?

Work a minimum wage job, then you don't get iPhones. You don't get cable TV. You don't get internet. You don't get that car. You don't get a nice place to live, you get that $700/month 1-BR apartment (NY cost, which is higher than a lot of other places). You can't pay that $75/week family med. insurance cost like I have to. They can usually get Medicaid though. Especially Latoya in the OP. She is a single mother with kids who works minimum wage. They are eligible.

I also hate the excuse about them not being able to get an education. My fiance makes $32/hour as an in home pediatric nurse. She works directly for Medicaid, but gets NO benefits. No health insurance. She only needs to pay for all her own supplies in order to do her job. She doesn't have her uniforms, gloves, etc... given to her.

Because she is considered a single mom (We are not married yet) she gets the state to pay for her continued education. This may change next year though since we recently purchased our first home. To think that 5-years ago, when my daughter was first born, I was just starting my current job, working on the stockroom for $11/hour and she was making $10/hour working with the mentally disabled. Both jobs requiring no additional education beyond high school. When she got home after my daughter was born though I had her quit her job while I picked up a lot of extra hours to cover all the costs and had her go full time into an accelerated nursing program, which cost $11,000. We got financial aid for $8,000 of that.

Why can't Latoya in the OP do the same so she can provide a better life for all her kids? $15/hour bump isn't going to do it. She would be eligible for schooling aid. If she looks hard and finds a job at somewhere like a Walmart then she can get them to pay for her schooling, provided of course that she passes the classes AND that schooling is for something that can be applied to a position within the company.

My problem also is that if they win this then expect them to come back later on down the line and demand more.

It's not that simple. 

There are many people born into situations that do not give them the means to get a good education, and hard work is not a guarantee of moving up and earning a livable wage for them and their families. 

Many poverty-stricken areas do not have decent paying jobs, or even many low-wage jobs, and unemployment is high. 

Race also plays a factor. People of color, especially black Americans, are often discriminated against in hiring and wages. Then there are other factors such as discrimination in the justice system that sees them arrested at disproportionate levels and charged with crimes that prevent them from receiving financial aid for school and leave them with records so they're at even more of a disadvantage of getting a job. 

There are many factors are work here besides people "being lazy" and your situation is not indicative of anyone else's opportunities or prospects. 

Poverty is systemic. If it were a matter of an individual working hard or not, poverty rates would be nearly non-existant. 

Hence "did" work in the navy for 14 years. I was referring to my experience in the navy that pays me 15 dollars an hour NOW.  I didn't say I currently do so NO I AM NOT a part of the government. If you had some sense you woud know that the military doesn't pay by the hour.  I worked 14 years in the navy and some guy or chick of the streets deserves to get paid the same with no skills, no education, and no experiece? Hell no. Raising the minimum wage will make prices go up. Economics! Than what? They going to whine about everything being too expensive and want ANOTHER raise? No. Minimim wage has NEVER been good for someone to live on. That is why mostly kids have always did the work. It was always a part time job.

If you want them to have medical benefits than a lot of these jobs will be lost. Plain and simple. Its one reason why Obamacare isn't covered under these jobs.

Tuition assistance doesn't apply that it comes directly from the government and besides that, it is there! It is better for them to use what is available than being paid more and not use any tuition. That would be stupid.

1. Agree'd Though Medicaid is very limited for the most part and barely covers anything.

2. Was she working a Minimum Wage job before she became a Pediatric Nurse? how did she get the Education to become a Nurse? I think SHE deserves Health-care just as much as She deserved it with the Minimum Wage job.

3. I don't have a problem with that, Walmart is also very careful who they choose to work Full Time because of benefits like those. There's nothing wrong with what you are doing, but it sometimes doesn't work that way.

15/Hour Bump isn't going to do it, but at-least it eases some of Burden Quicker and Faster. You're still relying more and more on the Government Which I don't mind but also getting funding from the Government has also been increasingly much harder due to Higher Costs and people arguing about Wasteful Spending.
There's also an off chance Accidents happen like Medical Issues which will INCREASE burdens and also make it that much harder and that much more unfair in the Social Ladder.