Minimum Wage Should Be Abolished in the United States

First off, you do not have to assume that the Employers have all the control to support a minimum wage, in fact you should assume quiet the contray. In a Country that does not have a Minimum wage, employees are forced to work at employer rates, in countries with some minimum wage they aren't. Example: USA. We currently have a minimum wage and you can still bargain collectivly. (Read the sign that any place of business is required by law to post for their employees.) The minium wage is merely a protective barrier to prevent people from getting paid 2 cents an hours. Furthermore, let me establish that Con does not have to defend the minimum wage at any set value. Rather let it be set at value X. This is because the within the USA each state has different values for minium wage, and those values are even constently changing. This debate centers on the use of the theory of Minimum wage over the actual value of the minimum wage because the practicle value changes from location to location. The United States of America prides itself in being able to not be a third rate country. The economic stature is good, and most people would want it to stay that way. The reason the USA is above the world economically is because they require a standard of living and work at a certain level. The truth is, now in todays world of globalization, for the current american culture to exsist the minimum wage is required. Though, American cities now present 'slums' and 'ghettos'. These people are merely lazy, OD'ed on Drugs, or have minimum wage jobs can't afford anything better. The American populous has seen an 'outsourcing' of lower undeserable jobs to the rest of the world (Namly India and China) in order to raise the American Standard of living. Why? Because these countries have workers willing to work....yes, willing to work, for PENNIES an hours. What does this do to Americans? It allows products to be made, shipped, and sold to you at priced that are as low as can be. Thus Walmart and McDonalds drive out all of their compotion by undercutting everybody by offering cheaper products. A minimum wage acts as a barrier, if their was no US minimum wages companies would insource these people from China and India to work for nothing, in slums they create, and have thousand strong communities of basically 'slaves' working for them right here in our back yard. And as the popular slongan goes: NIMB (Not In My Backyard). Americans don't care if it exsists, as long as they don't see it. Even if lower skilled workers would have job oppurtunities, they would be in slums for PENNIES an hour. He11, they would probally make more money begging on a street corner. By now, you probally don't believe people would work for nothing. But its true, if Americans won't then they will find other people. 1.5 billion live on less than one dollar a day (http://findarticles.com...). I'm sure they'd be happy with 10 cents an hour on a 14 hour shift. Basically the debate boils down to this: Have a Minimum wage to protect the American populous from ruthless big companies, or let the trust days of the early 1900's rearise. My opponent explains how minimum wages hurt the american populous by increasing inflation, however through outsourcing American Companies have already been able to reduce costs to lower prices, thes price have bottomed out and can't get any lower. When you competators work for $.43 an hour, we as Americans would have to do the same (actually less to reduce costs) and in so doing, our salaries and thus purchasing power would demintion so much that even if a toy cost ten cents less, the 90% loss of american purchasing power for someone in a low skilled/minimum wage job would no longer allow them to buy the product (6.55 national minimum wage average) All in all the loss of a minimum wage would reduce the standard of living in the united states, and [contary to Pro assumtion] allows the Employer (not the Employee) all the power in at the bargaining table because they will just insource labor that will work for cheaper (Mostly like the Mexicans that want in anyway). Vote Con, if you want a bright happy American that you have now. Not one overrun with poverty and big trust dominating the countryside.