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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
Increasing the minimum wage will really help internet retail sales and cost bricks 'n mortar stores like Walmart and Target a bundle. Increasing the minimum wage will also further trade globalization over the internet like what is going on at eBay with direct imported goods sold directly into the hands of US and Western consumers from lower wage countries.
So, what we we do with the surplus of unskilled workers this will create -- judging by the past we would draft them and go to war ... ouch! A private in the army does not get $15/ hr paychecks 
Ronald McDonald in an "Uncle Sam Hat" on recruiting posters ... may be coming. |
There hasn't been a draft since Vietnam, and even during the recent and current wars the military is still rejecting enlistees.
The wars of attrition are a thing of the past, the military needs skilled people that they can teach to fly drones, and use other smart weapons. There are only so many places to put those whose skill set has not progressed beyond burger flipping.