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[bballrox4717]

Raising the minimum wage would only force the chains to fire thousands of workers.

Adorable assumption that has no basis in reality.

It would imply we don't live in a capitalist society.  If a restaurant owner fired X% of his staff yet demand for his product stayed the same, the quality of service and product would decline the productivity of X% and the business revenue would eventually decline as well and the own.

In consumer capitalism, the business owner has no power to decide how many workers he needs.  The consumer decides this.  

This is why tax cuts on the upper class are so generally ineffective.  A restaurant owner could have all of his tax dollars returned to him and the incentive to expand his business instead of take a vacation is 0. He doesn't decide to expand unless consumers demand a bigger restaurant with more tables, more waiters, and more food.

Like all good democracies, in capitalism is following the will of the most which drives economies into prosperity. Minimum wage increases are the greatest economic stimulus a government can perform because it gives the most more power to will.

-Education system has failed them
-They made poor social decisions

Thanks Captain Hindsight, but this does nothing to help them in the short term.

And it doesn't help this country either.  Until Skynet is ready to take over, we need these hard blue collar laborers.  The idea of sending the guys who work at McDonalds, Jiffy Lube, and the sanitation department to school to become something "worthwhile" (a.k.a. another worthless dental hygentist or paralegal) is cute, but destructive to our society.

Every job in this country that is supposedly important needs to be a job the worker can be proud of holding.  If fast food workers are so worthless that raising their wages would result in mass layoffs with 0 ramifications to society, then it's not a job and all of these people are already unemployed.