Did the Wage Hike Kill Jobs?

A few months ago the minimum wage was raised 70 cents and since then teenagers and minimum wage workers have felt the effects.

Since the minimum wage hike took effect teen unemployment rates have jumped. It is a simple concept, but its simplicity doesn't affect its validity: You can not help the wage-earner by hurting the wage-payer. The federal government has not cared about helping the unemployed since January. The stimulus package, that was not supposed to create jobs isn't going to do anything to help our economy now.

The Obama administrations' stimulus package isn't even spent in significant numbers until the second quarter of 2010. The stimulus package was never about helping in January, February or helping now. It has always been about helping the democrats' poll numbers in 2010. The "stimulus" exists to buy votes, and that's it.

This administration wants to keep their friends happy and to do that they'll pass as many stimulus packages as possible. I think it's obvious by the facts that the stimulus was never about helping people, it's about politics. If it was meant to create jobs we would actually be watching every bridge and every road in America getting fixed like President Obama promised-and even then the middle class wouldn't be helped much. It's time that we demand an explanation for this, if one can be provided, that is.