Never, EVER underestimate the stupidity of the United States people. Seriously. Look at our Congress and tell me that nobody is that stupid or ignorant.

well him being a douche and all, there might be a leakage

How about how much this poor girl has been brainwashed by her anti-science kook of a mother? Her cancer has a 85% survival rate is she gets chemo. If she doesn't, she'll die. Simple as that.

If only they gave a shit about the 30,000 pain feeling american humans that are killed by guns every year.

In situations like this though, where this girl was photographed and then it was distributed without her knowledge or consent, I don't have a problem with them facing punishment. That is wrong and exploitative behavior regardless of age.

Nah, feeling more like I engaged with stupid. Since you're dense: the stupid is you.

Cool story.

Actually, you're wrong. Raising the minimum wage does cause revenues to increase because people who make the least are most likely to spend whatever additional money they have. Increasing the minimum wage is actually one of the best ways to improve the overall health of the economy, as it increases consumer purchasing…

You can't be serious. Right?

"this speaks to a larger problem of education and United States citizens not being qualified to do anything else ... the workforce, as a whole, is underqualified"

perhaps you should look at countries that already have a minimum liveable wage (like Australia!) and notice how well their economies are doing compared to yours. It's not all to do with having a minimum wage, but a lot is.

Revenue DOES increase if you raise your minimum wage, though not "magically," and not "instantly". Paying a living wage for work, regardless of the work being done, means workers have more money in their pockets to spend beyond day-to-day necessities. I don't get the connection you're making between raising minimum…

Oh, you want politicians to do something about this? Wouldn't those be scary, business killing regulations? (Also: government employees now make $15/hr thanks to a politician I supported.)

You're trolling, right? There are people with master's degrees who can't get jobs. At fucking McDonald's! People are not underqualified, there aren't jobs because the economy was tanked by the kind of people you probably look up to.

"But if you only have x amount of dollars for payroll and the wage is doubled, you only employ half as many people."

"The fry guy/girl at Wendy's shouldn't be able to raise 2 kids on their hourly rate."

If you can't figure out how to add up average weekly costs for housing, food, clothing, transportation, and utilities and divide by 40, I doubt anyone will be able to help you.

Why is preparing food not worthy of a livable wage? Why should we support industries that lobbied for deregulation and wage cuts so that they could insure a steady stream of both workers and customers (often one and the same)?

Yeah, but here's the problem; there are only so many managers. Only so many executives, only so many office jobs, and only so many jobs that you would define as career jobs. I'm sure that the mother of two working at Wendy's would love to have a better job! But education takes time and money, and isn't even a…

I kind of love these people who think that the dynamics of massively complex macroeconomic systems can be completely described by basic fractions. OMG SOMEONE BETTER TELL THOSE HIGH-FALUTIN' ECONOMISTS WHO COULDN'T EVEN SEE THE RECESSION COMING. Bless their hearts.