Please DU this Lou Dobbs poll, does minimum wage help the little guy?

[Nimrod2005]

Or will it cost jobs if raised...?

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

[mcar]

1. Done

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Done n/t

[Nimrod2005]

3. This is an easy quiz, I passed.......

[aquart]

4. Cost jobs?

But aren't minimum wage jobs the nasty, dull, smelly, ugly awful ones that HAVE to be done but only the desperate will do?

BTW, what is the point of a job that doesn't even pay the basic expenses of living?

Not to mention the minimum wage hike won't even be close to keeping up with the rampant inflation the government insists isn't happening...unless you happen to try and buy something.

[Nimrod2005]

5. lol...If people would just stop buying stuff!!! There would be

no inflation...

[TheVirginian]

7. And if people would stop breaking the law, there'd be no crime.

That's not a very helpful suggestion or a realistic solution, however.

[ticapnews]

6. Wow. close vote

It's like a soccer match: 0 to 0

Do you believe raising the U.S. minimum wage will help the lowest-paid workers or do you believe it will eliminate jobs?

Help lowest paid 0%

Eliminate jobs 0%

[Rose Siding]

9. Now 85% "help lowest paid"

[Misskittycat]

8. Done. n/t

[Immad2]

10. Done and current results...

Do you believe raising the U.S. minimum wage will help the lowest-paid workers or do you believe it will eliminate jobs?

Help lowest paid
85%


Eliminate jobs
15%

[Greyhound]

11. Done, looks like nobody's buying the RW lies about the minimum. n/t

[sonias]

12. 81% helps the lowest paid

Sonia

[Warpy]

13. Hardly needed any help

It's amazing the pubbies always trot out that tired old chestnut about costing jobs when every time the minimum wage has increased, so has the number of new jobs.

Small business owners scream bloody murder, then see an increase in business that far outstrips any increase in the wages they pay their staff. People at the bottom spend every dime they make, thus increasing demand for goods and services.

Fattening the rich doesn't create any jobs, unless you're counting those created overseas for labor paid in cheap currencies.

Don't expect the pubbies to PASS this 50% increase, that's why they made it so "ridiculously large." Only a few of them have realized that our wages will be the wedge issue, not enough to pass it.

They did, however, give themselves a $3,000+ pay hike again this year.

[Omaha Steve]

14. Done!

84% on our side on this.