Don't want a USA vs Canada (or any other country debate) but its way easier here to make ends meet then in most parts of the world.

I am very lucky to make roughly 35$ a hour (before taxes) and trust me, I aint that skilled!!

Just lucky to have had the opportunity HERE.

My same job in the US pays anywhere between 9-15$ Hour MAX

It's illustrative that this occurred within a week of the announcement that the American economy actually contracted during the last quarter, and on the heels of the the proposed, job-annihilating EPA rules.

So, we have measures at the macro level that are designed (or might as well be designed) to kill real, family-sustaining jobs, both winthin the industry at which they are aimed,as well as those who will be impacted by the rise in energy prices, while, at the micro level we see fools of the same political stripe trying to invent jobs that don't (and can't) actually exist - in this case, the $15/hour Arby's counter job.  If it weren't so tragic, and if the impacts on people's lives so real, it would be funny. 

This, by the way, is a legitimate issue.  It doesn't get cured by jacking up the miniumum wage, however, as those costs will be felt much closer to the ground than the executive suite.

A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study’s opening question, "Who governs? Who really rules?" in this country, is: 

"Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But, ..." and then they go on to say, it's not true, and that, "America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened" by the findings in this, the first-ever comprehensive scientific study of the subject, which shows that there is instead "the nearly total failure of 'median voter' and other Majoritarian Electoral Democracy theories [of America]. When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

To put it short: The United States is no democracy, but actually an oligarchy.

People should not fear their government. The government should fear the people.