[BigSkyFreeper]

If they raise minium wage to $20 per hour .. you'll see even more and more companies outsourse jobs to countries like China

Exactly, and all those poor families in Kennedy's remarks will be in bigger dire straits because they have NO JOB.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The MW was not designed to get families out of debt, or lower the poverty level below what it is now. The MW was started as a means to an entry point into the job market. To get off the MW and still retain a wage, you aspire to move yourself up in the world by moving up to a higher paying salary, and not burden the whole country and the job market by moving up the MW.