Comments by "judyleasugar97" (@judyleasugar97) on "Thom Hartmann on the News: December 19, 2013" video.

  1. Employment is a result of PUBLIC DEMAND. If a corporate chain has a buying public they will be forced to hire even if minimum goes up. In the long run there is more spending in the market place and everyone benefits, even the wealthy.
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  2. PolakFury Small and large business do better when wages are higher because workers have more money to spend in the marketplace. As Robert Reich put it, it's better for the head of a business to have a smaller stake in a HEALTHY economy, than a larger stake in a stagnant economy (what we've got now).
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  3. In the 1950s and 1960s minimum wage was equal to cost of living. Taxes on the wealthy were higher. Despite that, there were plenty of jobs to be had and industry flourished. 
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  4. ***** Uh, who can possibly live on 25 cents a day? And how could workers have anything to spend out in the marketplace so that the economy can ever recover?
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