"Fight for $15 on 4/15" Wouldn t this make businesses to slow down, and trigger a negative effect on the economy?

Oh it's a barrel of laughs here in Seattle, let me tell you. I swear half the city would flunk a junior high economics exam - especially our lovely city council chock full of people who have never had a private sector job.

Prices are already beginning to skyrocket all the while business are hiring college grads to mop floors for $15/hour while the unskilled workers are having an even harder time finding work within city limits.

The first rule of protest is 'Shut it down until we get our way'.

If enough people are inconvenienced enough times by people protesting low wages, those same inconvenienced people will vote wages up so they will not have to be inconvenienced anymore.

If I can get to work faster or get my food faster, or get my oil changed faster simply by paying a few cents more so the person who is doing the work can get paid a dollar more per hour...I am doing it without blinking an eye.

BTW...If I have to pay a few dollars more a month for my groceries or daycare so the workers there can have health insurance so they will not come to work sick and give me their germs and make me and my family sick...I am paying for it...no questions or complaints.

I want things the way I want them, when I want them...and if it means paying someone extra to get what I want, how I want it and when I want it, I will do that.

Of course it would but the ignorance or stupidity of the people striking for a $15 wage is why they're making only $8 or so.

This is kind of silly. A business cannot have a 50% increase in expenditures without a corresponding 50% increase in productivity. Do you think the unskilled laborers intend to work 50% harder?

In relation to the minimum wage issue, here's an interesting report: http://bitly.com/1n4lqIa .