http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/22/1359571/-GOP-lawmaker-Minimum-wage-is-for-teenagers-and-minorities?detail=email
Here's California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock explaining why he wants to keep the minimum wage at a poverty level out of compassion and concern for workers:
Only [raise the minimum wage] if you want to rip the first rung in the ladder of opportunity for teenagers, for minorities, for people who are trying to get into the job market for their first job.
The minimum wage doesn't support a family. We all know that. It’s not supposed to support a family. The minimum wage is that first job when you have no skills, no experience, no working history. That’s how you get into the job market, that’s how you develop that experience, develop that work record, get your first raise, then your next raise, then your promotion. That's the first rung of opportunity.
If your labor as an unskilled person just entering the workforce is worth say $7 an hour at a job and the minimum wage is $10, you have just been made permanently unemployable. That first rung of the economic ladder has been ripped out and you can’t get on it. That is a tragedy.
nothing has or will change in their agenda and i hope it's becoming more clear that those in their base that vote for them no matter what how many of them are getting min. wage and food stamps and are they still clapping and cheering the republicans on now that they know that stinging sensation is coming from their rear from those they stand up and up front for. it takes a real fool to believe and say that 7.25 is okay and raising it to 10.10 would make no difference, i starting to get a hook on who or what thias party of stupid thing really is.
