"I learned a long time ago you don't solve a problem by throwing money at it."
And yet you want laws requiring other people to throw money at it.
I want people paid enough money to live on without the maid, cellphones, home theater, luxury car. They are not asking for those things.
Our capitalistic system used to provide a job for a male wage earner who could support his entire family on his wages. Even some highly educated people who worked hard to get through school are losing their jobs and can't find equivalent jobs. Some of them probably have to take jobs at places like Wal Mart as a stop-gap measure. If they can't get out of that pit within a few months to a year, they may never climb back up to anything close to what they once had, what most of you seem to have but don't want other people to be earn enough money to buy those things.