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Any raise to minimum wage helps people.  Apparently Australia has a great minimum wage policy, increasing the amount by age group.

If the minimum wage is increased, well. Where do most of the people who make minimum wage work? Some type of retail. Fast food, walmart, etc. Does congress honestly think these 'evil companies' will take the added loss of increased wages on the chin? Nope. So what will happen? That's right, folks. Prices will go up. And, the people who do make minimum wage may not notice that they don't seem to have any more money after the raise than before. Minimum wage increase=cost of living increase.
And seriously. It is unfortunate that people try to survive making minimum wage. And i speak from experience. I didn't have enough money to get my car out of the pound, which left me with no place reasonably warm to sleep. But rather than complain, i applied determination. And as it is now, My wife of 13 months and I just bought a house, i make a fairly decent living as a foreman, and am planning on changing careers into the IT field. I share this not to boast, but to express my sincere intrest in this topic.

If you make minimum wage and are trying to support a family, you have made many wrong desicions in your life. Minimum wage is for people who work a part time job (to flee from whatever time you are required to spend with family), and for kids with no marketable skills. If you are an adult, making minimum wage, there are several options available to you. Wether it be biting the bullet and serving our fine country, going to school (which takes less money than they would have you belive...the less you have, the less they ask for), or enrolling in a trade school. Almost anything else is complacentcy, and laziness.
Whew. that was draining.
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