Re: Raising the Minimum Wage and solving the income inequity problem ... [View all]

[1StrongBlackMan]

While watching the Morning Joe Show this morning, the republican strategist Steve Schmidt called President Obama's call to raise the minimum wage a disingenuous/ineffective means to solve the inequity problem (and I have seen that argument on DU, as well). I would say he is right ... raising the Minimum Wage will do very little, in the short-term (or even mid-term) to "solve" the income inequity problem.

But I don't think that the proposal is intended to do that, in and of itself; however, it is a necessary step in the long-term process ... just as combatting a patient's infection, is a necessary step before performing a surgery, or shoring up a building's foundation is a necessary step before building an addition.