working in fast food places across the country demanding their wages be doubled to $15 an hour from the minimum 7.25. president obama is sympathetic to that and the left believing that our economic system is unjust to working americans so let's take a look at it beginning with my employment history ice cream stand played minimum wage free sundaes as a perk. i understood that i was a rookie in the labor force and could get an got my lifeguard and become a water safety instructor. immediately five times more money than i made at carvel. identify a hard time getting a job because beach place surrounded by money. next year i needed more money because college demanded it. so i started a painting business.