You're Not Supposed to be Able to Live on Minimum Wage!

If you are counting on a minimum wage job as a means to have a life-you probably didn't pay attention as you were growing up.  I just finished reading an article online that there is a movement to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.  Other than obamacare, I cannot think of anything that will kill hiring any faster.
If you are being paid minimum wage, no offense to your job skills, but you are not all that valuable to the work market.  You can be replaced with another person who walks in off of the street, pretty quickly.  Minimum wage jobs are supposed to give you job skills that you will build on and increase your worth to the competitive market place.  They are not supposed to be a life style.
The very first job that I had paid $3.50 an hour. I answered phones and waited tables in a pizza place.  I lasted a little over a year in that job, and the biggest thing that I learned was that I wanted to finish my education so that I could make more money.  I had ambition- I knew that a McJob was never going to fill my needs in the long term.  I was motivated to improve myself and get a better job. I learned a lot about what it would take to get and keep a better job, especially in a stress filled situation.  It has served me well.  If I were still working in a minimum wage job, I believe I would be tempted to shoot myself.
Do you realize what the cost of things will become if the workers were required to be paid $10.10 an hour?  Goodbye one dollar burgers, everything would double or triple in price.
Of course, the real motivation behind raising the minimum wage to such an unsustainable amount has nothing to do with giving people with zero job skills a better life, because it wouldn't do that.  They would be in the same boat- the cost of everything would increase. Food, shelter, fuel, clothing, it would all go up.  That is, it would go up even higher than it already has thanks to B.O.'s tidy little depression.
But the dirtiest secret behind this sudden "desire" to make the minimum wage a living wage has nothing to do with concern for people with few job skills.
The real reason behind this sudden desire to tank the economy even more, raise the minimum wage is one great big giant reach around for the unions.  You see, they base their wage demands on an extrapolation of the minimum wage.  That is to say, if minimum wage is three dollars, than their workers get three times the minimum wage, or nine dollars an hour.  See the payola?  This is just one more attempt by B.O. and his cronies to keep thanking the unions that he screwed over with obamacare.  Don't fall for it.  Even if you are stuck in a minimum wage starter job- don't fall for it.  Do you want to pay seven dollars for a gallon of milk?  You would be better off getting an education- and not majoring in romance languages- but a REAL education.  Then you can support yourself and your family, maybe even pay it forward.  Think about it, you'll thank me later.