If you've got no skills to offer other than you're breathing and walking, what makes you think you deserve to make $25/hr to start anywhere you work? Do you think you are "owed" something? Aren't you special.
Do you go to a car dealer and tell them you are "owed" a new Range Rover because you walk and breathe? Do you go to a steak house and tell them you are "owed" a steak dinner?
No; if you want something, you need to earn it. And if you can't afford a Range Rover, don't go out and buy one and then complain you aren't earning enough money to pay for it.
If you think because you can walk and breathe, and now you want to have kids (married or not), that some organization or business now "owes" you that they need to pay you enough to support you and your kids? No.
In the Army (where I just retired after 34 years) unless you have a college degree and come in as an officer (and you'll still start out at the bottom as a 2LT), you come in as a private, and make private's pay to start out. And you're expected to make it work financially. As you are in for a while and earn rank, you earn more money. But if you're a private and decide you want to get married and have a bunch of kids (or buy a new expensive car) they aren't going to suddenly pay you a lot more money for a poor decision you made.
Nobody is forcing anyone to work for, or buy stuff from Wal-Mart. Look what over-inflated wages did to Detroit.
And don't get me started on folks taking out huge student loans and then whining after they graduate because they can't find the high paying job they think they're "owed" in the fancy city they want to live in so now they're wanting to default on their loan (many which were taxpayer supported). If you can't find the job you want in the city you want to live in, then you need to do a wider search. Not everyone can live in NYC or Seattle or Denver (or wherever the popular cities are). And Portland (OR) is having a rental housing shortage.
I like Wal-Mart. I shop at Wal-Mart. I have camping gear from Wal-Mart.
