Maybe not so much.  Meanwhile, what do people read and hear about?  That those who were instrumental in bringing about economic collapse weren't punished.  That the new order if you're a bank or a Wall Street firm is just to budget for the fines.  

They look at who things are being taken from, and don't understand why food and nutrition and heating assistance programs are being cut, but under Obama, the wealthy are paying less in taxes.  Less.

They don't understand why, in the absence of anything resembling job creation for the millions who want to work, who need to work, Congress ended the extension to unemployment benefits - and isn't renewing it.  Because...the lazy unemployed need incentive to work, and maybe this will force them to get out there and put on that blue vest and happily greet people at the door of Wal-Mart.  As if you could pay the rent, or put food on the table and gas in the car - if you still have one - with the minimum wage and part-time hours you're competing with all the other jobless people for.

They hear about Jamie Dimon getting a 74% pay raise - from $11 million to $20 million, no less - while their own wages have stagnated.  They're working harder, pedaling faster, and if they're not falling behind, they're getting so, so tired of not really moving ahead.  They want more - they have kids they want more for, and fear it won't be possible for them to even get to where their parents are now.

They want to retire, but worry they can't afford to.  What will become of Social Security?  Will Medicare still exist?  

So...we're screwed in that market, fo-evah, unless we hit the lottery or something.

And for those less fortunate than us, that great mass of normal struggling Americans, that 40% of the population who have no assets at all, and no chance of acquiring any, giant, faceless financial funds are buying up homes by the thousands, securitizing future rent like sh*t mortgages were securitized in the last crash, and, on top of that exploitation, for a huge swath of the population, an increasing swath with each month, these faceless corps will become the new feudal landlords of the next generation.

do they not have 401k's or any money invested in the stock market, do they not own homes, WTF ?

It is a well thought out policy disagreement.

Personal attacks and snarky jokes just make you uninteresting to debate against.

I've posted lots of links to back up my argument.   You've chosen to tell a funny joke.

For example (this took into account a raise in the federal minimum wage for ALL worker, not just federal contractors):

Nationally, over a quarter (27.9 percent) of those who would be affected by increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 are parents, while over a third (35.8 percent) are married (according to an analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata). Moreover, of the 75 million children in the United States, more than one-fifth (20.9 percent) have a parent who would benefit from the proposed federal minimum-wage increase.

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The immediate benefits of a minimum-wage increase are in the boosted earnings of the lowest-paid workers, but its positive effects would far exceed this extra income. Recent research reveals that, despite skeptics' claims, raising the minimum wage does not cause job loss.6 In fact, throughout the nation, a minimum-wage increase under current labor market conditions would create jobs. Like unemployment insurance benefits or tax breaks for low- and middle-income workers, raising the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of working families when they need it most, thereby augmenting their spending power. Economists generally recognize that low-wage workers are more likely than any other income group to spend any extra earnings immediately on previously unaffordable basic needs or services.

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Using these same standard fiscal multipliers to analyze the jobs impact of an increase in compensation of low-wage workers and decrease in corporate profits that result from a minimum-wage increase, we find that increasing the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour by July 1, 2015, would result in a net increase in economic activity of approximately $32.6 billion over the phase-in period, and over that period would generate approximately 140,000 new jobs (see Appendix for methodological details).10 In fact, the hike in the federal minimum wage would create jobs in every state, as seen in Appendix Table 1. (Detailed state-level breakdowns of the demographics of workers who would be affected by the increase--and the degree to which the wages of various types of workers would rise--are available here.) Though the resulting employment impact is modest in the context of the millions of workers currently unemployed nationwide, creating tens of thousands of jobs would be a step in the right direction and would boost the economy.

And then this:

Even conservative economists suggest higher wages might help speed the recovery. American Enterprise Institute scholar Desmond Lachman, a former managing director at Salomon Smith Barney, told The New York Times, "Corporations are taking huge advantage of the slack in the labor market--they are in a very strong position and workers are in a very weak position. They are using that bargaining power to cut benefits and wages, and to shorten hours." According to Lachman, that strategy "very much jeopardizes our chances of experiencing a real recovery" (Powell 2011).

Don't you think a teenager who wants to go to college could save more for it if he or she was making more than the current minimum wage?  

Apparently not.

I guess, if you had your way, there would be no minimum wage, but hey - think of all those workhouses that would need to be built, the company stores where people could "spend" their meager checks and be in debt to their employer.  Yeah, that sounds just great.  And with no regulations standing in the way, just think about how quickly we could reduce the population!  The injuries, the deaths, the terminal illnesses from exposure to toxins and what not - what a plan!  Get rid of Obamacare and you can just shuttle all the sick to some sort of Final Destination colony.