“As it stands now, the federal wage law tells workers that unless they can find a company willing to pay them at least $7.25 an hour, they can’t get a job.”
The system encourages job hunters to walk away from perfectly OK jobs (very likely a foot-in-the-door) if employers don’t offer the current minimum wage.
THAT is idiotic. Everyone has to start SOMEWHERE... and if you get into a place, there have to be opportunities for industrious and responsible employees no matter at what level they started out.
If nothing else, you can get some contin. ed, night school or whatever, and move to other and better paying jobs down the road. There is no limit to what you can achieve if you just BEGIN working and applying yourself.
Sitting around on your duff waiting for the gov’t. to subsidize your indolence and expecting a big time position out of the blue, is just plain ignorant!
It doesn't encourage them to walk away, it mandates that they walk away.