No need to raise the minimum wage artificially when the economy is roaring like it is in North Dakota. Economic forces do the job and raise the "minimum wage" naturally.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/28/pf/n...jobs/index.htm
But Sweet Baby Jesus is obsessed with "green energy" sources that don't really work (yet) to fulfill our energy needs as a country.
So he is doing everything he can to force fossil fuel prices UP so green energy looks more viable.
The result is a crushing and painful blow to people already struggling in his shitty economy.
Open the goddamn Keystone Pipeline and then Federal lands for drilling and watch the entire nation replicate what's going on in North Dakota.
There is no reason for us to be buying oil from those crazy Muslim countries that want to kill us all. With new technology it turns out the the United States is perhaps the most oil rich country in the world. And the same for Natural Gas.
Instead we keep paying top dollar to make people who hate us filthy rich while the answer to our energy problem AND the economy is literally right underneath us.