work hard every kids,ake care of the elders, running the cash registers, ordering a meal or a workercoffee, but these bees out there are really valuable. economy valuable to our and, quite frankly, they are the ones who make our country run, you know? someone running the cash register doing these minimum- wage jobs, they don't show up in things grind down a little bit. we always agreed their valuable. if we agreed you worked hard and paid by the rules you could have a good economic stake. you could put money away for a rainy day, have a secure retirement. it's alarming to see how these are being degraded in our public policy. the new attitude is -- tough luck. you are on your own. even if you struggle and face insurmountable challenges, it's probably your own fault. used to just hear this on talk radio and now it has become part of the discourse in the u.s. congress almost every day. we hear minimum-wage workers don't deserve an honest wage because they are not worth $10.10 per hour. or, get this, raising the minimum wage will not help people get out of poverty. come again. if you give peo