Fixing The Economy, From The Ground Up

THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE hasn't been raised since something like two thousand and nine. That seems like a rather long time to stagnate the bottom end of the economic ladder. Above all else, this proves who owns and controls the United States of America. Quick hint; it isn't the working class. Hell, it isn't even the middle class, what there is left of it. If the working class were in charge, minimum wage would be twice what it is, which is where it should be, and why isn't it? Isn't Donald Trump the great champion of the working class, the one who knows how to save the coal industry and all those coal mining jobs, the one who can bring jobs back from overseas, and create new jobs here? Am I dreaming, or was Donald Trump elected by workers, former democrats, in a so called populist movement? Doesn't "populism" mean policies that are popular with the common working folk? What, exactly, does Trump have in common with common workers? Your first clue that Donald J. Trump is not a champion of the working class is that he has never said anything about raising the federal minimum wage, because he doesn't want to raise it. The standard republican and conservative line is that raising minimum wage will kill jobs. If so, fine. Let it. Empower the workers, the people at the very bottom , expand the consumer base, expand demand, and before you know it, all the jobs will come back. The workers cannot count on any help from our republicans in power. So why did you vote for them? By now, Hillary Clinton and a democratic congress would already have a minimum wage bill passed and signed into law. Capitalism, in theory, is supposed to produce equal outcomes, and when it doesn't, government must compensate for economic failures. This economy, with its ultra wealthy one percent and high inequality and poverty levels, will not fix itself.