[mburbank]

Yeah, I'm sure I'm a huge communist and that this will show I know nothing at all about economics, but here's what I think:

You work a nine to five job, five days a week, you should get paid enough to keep a roof over your head and eat and you should get a week of paid vacation and medical insurance. We're the richest country on earth and we have a buttload of folks so rich you could empty millions of dollars out of their bank accounts and it wouldn't change their life styles one iota. Anyone who works forty hours a week should be able to cover their basic damn needs, and that should be a damn law. If that mean the filthy rich would only get to be a undred times more wealthy than the poor instead of a thousand, well that makes my heart bleed. How many cars can you drive at once, how many mansions can you live in and how the hell do people sleep at night when they horde money they can't even find the time to spend or a single thing to spend it on when other people are one bad week away from homelessness?

Yeah, the minimum wage has a lot of problems. Raise it and it gets shifted to costs, it gets paid to teenagers who's parents cover all their needs, it needs fixing to do what it ought to do, it's a big mess.

But the wealth inequity in this country is a way bigger mess. Basic economics 101? How about basic guillotine 101 Bubba? The fat and happy ought to take a look at their own self interests and the countries and realize tht a growing underclass is a very dangerous thing.