Bad things tend to happen when governments decide thier money supply is endless

Printing more money always adds to inflation, things are tough there is no denying that but I disagree with the notion of making things temporarily better when in the end it will cause a larger problem. I know that if we did massively cut back on printing dollar bills things would look much worse for the next several years, America and the world have been in tough times before, we have always bounced back, sometimes it took longer because of certain actions taken, but the world has always bounced back.

Things perhaps need to get considerably worse for a time before they get better. Americans tend to hold the belief that things will always be sunny and bright, of course I think all of us here agree that that is clearly not the case, there will be financially bad times in the world. I feel that if we could muster resolve to pilot through stormy seas ahead we would pull out better in the long run.

Coupled with this issue is the problem of minimum wage, on the surface a raise in minimum wage sounds great... until prices go up as businesses try to re-attain the profits they saw prior to a min wage increase. What good is making more money when the prices of everything go up as well, we have been in the same boat for a long time with minimum wage, inflation has skyrocketed, have you seen the prices of food? It has gotten to the point that some have to mooch off of uncle Sam and even then they can't even afford basic nutrition.

I think the solution to both problems is to freeze minimum wage where it is and stop printing money so fast. Things will be hard if we go through with this cure, but things will be harder if we continue going through with treatment meant to merely forestall the inevitable decline of prosperity.