America, has the audacity to claim that is the greatest nation that the world has ever known, and that its capitalistic economic system is the best such that so exists. Yet, even the most cursory of looks, indicates that this isn’t true for the whole of the population, never has been true, and never will be true. In America, those few privileged people that are the top of the food chain, absolutely have the best of it – but there is an incredible amount of Americans that don’t have any semblance of the American dream, or of opportunity, or of a decent education, or of a safe and healthy community, or even a reasonable chance of ever to experience a decent life. For those people, America is an abysmal failure, and the fact that this governance has apparently been subsumed by the elite persons and mega-corporations of America, is a crying shame and a gross injustice.
There was a time when America was more forward thinking, recognizing, that the people of this land deserved a fairer and a more just nation, and therefore a “new deal” – of which that new deal would be initiated by that national government, to thus assure the people that no special or private interests would preclude such legislature from being the law of the land. This thus meant that as part of that new deal, a minimum wage would be structured for the benefit of the people, so that they would not suffer unduly from the exploitation of those with capital as well as the control of the jobs so being offered to them.
Today, while the national minimum wage is still in effect, for all practical purposes, the minimum wage doesn’t represent anything much more than a substandard wage, which is, in its application, typically unfair to those so being paid such, and unbecoming of a nation that claims such greatness. In our modern era, in which those so being employed are individually identified by their Social Security number, and of which, this government has proven through its stimulus payments, that it actually has a competent grasp of the identity of its citizens, as well as their bank accounts, and their addresses, we thus have an opportunity for this government to implement a living wage, so done through the process of that government stepping in to do what businesses have failed so often to do. At the present time, the national minimum wage is a paltry $7.25/hour of which legislation should thus be passed to raise that minimum wage $1.00 per year until that wage reaches $15/hour and then subsequently to have that minimum wage be indexed to inflation, and thus be considered to be, at that point, a living wage. This thus provides to influential corporate interests, plenty of time, for them, to adjust to an ever higher minimum wage.
Lastly, the final piece of the living wage puzzle, is that, in consideration that the people have been suffering from such a long and extended period of time of being cheated out of receiving a living wage, is then, for that government, of, for, and by the people to step in, so that all those that are currently making less than $15/hour would receive a stimulus payment, monthly, issued by the federal government for their exclusive benefit, that would cover the shortfall of their current wage so as to reach thus the compensation wage of $15/hour. The effect of this money getting into the hands of those that so richly deserve such, would be a boost to the economic growth of this country, because those that are struggling day-to-day are the type of people that will spend their newfound wages upon goods and services of all sorts.