Why you don't set the minimum wage to $70K

[RolloTheGreat]

A person can get a good lifestyle going in America still, especially if they team up with another working professional.

"Still...", you say, like as if no longer someday soon?  Ha j/k.

True, dat. 

What I propose (very very rough draft - my ideas might evolve or change):

1)  Give the National Forests back to the Native Americans (under conditions that the forests are maintained and well-cared for). 

2)  Offer free college education nationwide in every public university/college, for long-standing citizens (of more than 18 years).  Those who have not been a citizen for more than 18 years (immigrants) have to pay for their own college tuition.

3)  Raise the minimum wage for long-standing citizens to $20/hour.  Minimum wage does not rise for immigrants - it would be left up to companies' discretion. 

4)  Recent immigrants, even with a green card, or those who have recently become citizens, will have to find other means of borrowing money for college tuition, rather than directly from the government.  

That way, Obama's relaxed immigration laws that encourage more immigrants to over-populate the states can do all the dirty work for us, like flipping burgers, etc. if they still want to escape their own countries.  And the long-standing citizens will have less of an excuse for not getting well-educated and working a more skilled job. 

The government would no longer be burdened with hundreds of billions of dollars of unpaid college loans, and the long-standing citizens won't be burdened with paying outrageous loan debts.  We owe it to the African Americans who built the nation from the ground up with their bare hands and the sweat on their brows - the tax dollars should encourage them to live the American dream for once.  They didn't wish to be brought over here, and we aren't creating an Isreal for our own African-Americans like we did for the European Jews.  Let it be that low-income (less than $60K income) African-Americans (who can prove their American heritage to pre-MLK Jr. days) don't even have to pay for taxes at all, as our public apology for centuries of slavery........  the same goes for Native Americans.

It is in my opinion that America is already heavily populated enough, with a still-healthy ratio of births to deaths.  Sure, the immigrants can keep on pouring in, but we shouldn't encourage it as much as Obama is now.  Especially not if we can't even make it right for the Native Americans.  The immigrants should be building upon their own countries rather than escaping to America and further burdening the government.  They will have to pay the taxes as well, after just making it harder for the long-standing citizens by directly competing against them in public universities and colleges, and at workplaces.  It seems fair to me (give-and-take condition).

I don't think the Native Americans want the forests, they have casinos and other treaty perks. I don't really think we owe them anything either, the history of the world is one of conquest and this happened hundreds of years ago. What's next? Everyone researches their family tree and looks for reparations from the anyone who may have an ancestor who kicked their family off some rock? My ancestors came here in the late 1800s, never owned a slave, never fought a Native America. I owe someone? My dad's grandfather was a tenant famer, and his dad was a tenant farmer. I think someone owes ME.

As far as free college goes I disagree, although I do agree with state and federal subsidy to make it more reasonable, say $50K instead of $100K. College SHOULD cost a lot, because frankly it shouldn't be taken lightly. Joe Bob shouldn't be saying "Can't decide if I want to be a fry cook or a veterinarian, guess I'll go to college a while and see.". Not enough professional jobs for everyone as it is, and it's better if the people in class aren't fucking around. They know they've paid good bucks, and are serious about it. Making it free might make it like high school.

My plot to fix the economy is this: Route all safety net benefits through industry to subsidize wages for low skill factory jobs and provide health care for the people. Create federal day care centers where other assistant folks work to watch kids while their assistance buddies go do things like make socks or plastic bowls. How does this help you might say?

The huge pool of assistance labor creates for profit products, and more skilled people get jobs in the office or as supervisors of the assistance folks. Now you have a huge group of people who were once a drain on the economy, now part of it and helping others have jobs as well. (instead of sponging off them) The profits of their labor help fund the on assistance staff, themselves and the daycare centers. They get some dignity being working people, and people wouldn't hate them anymore because they would not be moochers, they would be an import part of the economy.

America's main problem is manufacturing left, it's not that not enough people go to college. I want manufacturing back, and for those people to have more dignity and self esteem.