Obama and minimum wage

[Jim in CT]

During the state of the union address, Obama lamented that if 2 parents worked 40-hour weeks at minimum wage, and they were supporting 2 children, they would be living below the poverty line. Cue the standing ovation!!

Can this guy ever get an economic issue right, even by accident? Earth to liberals...minimum wage jobs are not supposed to be jobs that can possibly support a family. They are non-skilled jobs, designed for high school kids to get their first taste of 'working'.

No one has any business deciding to raise 2 kids, if they aren't capable of earning above minimum wage.

And if they raise the minumum wage, who gets hurt? Disproportionately, it will be blacks. If the federal minimum wage increases to, say $10, then what happens to folks who are not capable of producing $10 an hour worth of goods and services? Businesses can't afford to hire those folks. And those folks are disproportionately black.

My family owned a Subway and a Little Caesars when I was a kid. I can tell you for sure that every time the minimum wage increased, we were forced to get a LOT more selective in hiring.

It's an idea that sounds great, but that has the exact opposite effect of what is intended.