All Workers Deserve A Livable Wage (And All Means ALL)

I firmly believe that anyone willing to work hard for a living should be paid a livable wage. No worker should be forced to live in poverty just so a greedy corporation (or business owner) can pad their profits -- and any business that can't afford to pay workers a livable wage, probably shouldn't exist.
Recently, fast-food workers in New York City won a $15 an hour wage. That won't make any of them rich, but it will lift many out of poverty. It should happen all across this country, but we still hear many, especially Republicans, whining that the minimum wage shouldn't be raised (and some want to do away with the minimum wage completely). I find that to be a ridiculous, immoral, and unsupportable position.
Recently a paramedic named Jens Rushing addressed the new fast-food worker wage on his Facebook page, and what he had to say makes a lot of sense. His statement was reposted on the website Addicting Info. I think everyone needs to read what he had to say, so I post it below.

(NOTE -- The image of workers above is by cartoonist Angelo Lopez.)