McDonalds, that operates 90% of their workforce at minimum wage, is one of the most profitable companies in the world. Go figure.

You know what's really screwed up about this country is that we'll pay $7.00 for a fancy Starbucks coffee and then bitch about the price of gas!

The minimum wage today has 30% less buying power than it did in 1968.

So the workers shouldn't benefit proportionately?

I was with you until the last sentence. Personally, I think there is enough blame to go around. Repubs...Dems....Corp's.....Banks. Also people that insist that their 3 pack of men's underwear shouldn't cost more than 1/2 the price of a Starbucks coffee.

Not ONE developed country scores lower than the US on Consumer Price Index. Which means we spend less, comparative to income, for necessities than ALL the rest of the other developed countries. How do we do that? On the back of sub-standard wages. That's how.

The word "entitlement" is being misused. Sounds like it's a handout that a benevolent gov't is GIVING to us. It is not. It's a re-payment of supposedly invested funds of contributors money that the fund was in care. It's our money....not the governments.....get that thru your head. The government contributed NO money t...more

Went over my lifetime contributions to MY Social Security. By the time I retire in about 4 years, my average lifetime contribution was about $200 per month over 45 years. If invested over that time period at an average rate of 6% ( I believe I'm being realistic given rate history over the last 45 years) I would have so...more

Went over my lifetime contributions to MY Social Security. By the time I retire in about 4 years, my average lifetime contribution was about $200 per month over 45 years. If invested over that time period at an average rate of 6% ( I believe I'm being realistic given rate history over the last 45 years) I would have so...more