America cannot “minimum wage” itself to prosperity, but it can export jobs and drive itself down to nothing.
Wake up people.
Bring back US jobs. Now.
That means you Republicans. Hire Americans.
They aren't going to hire Americans when they can hire Chinamen for $0.17/hour ($2/day 12hr/day). And Americans aren't going to buy American made when China made is 50% cheaper.
We need import tariffs and pretty heavy ones to suck the profit out of offshoring and to get Americans to buy American again. That will put Americans back to work. We can lower tariffs once unemployment has dropped.
But until you do something about trade policy, minimum wage increases will just accelerate offshoring.