I a fully aware of the minimum wage, my point being that having a minimum
wage is simply wrong.....If a worker is willing to work for $4.00 an hour,
why is it the guvmint position to say, no he can't.

Because the difference in the actual cost of subsisting in society and four
bucks an hour is going to be picked up by the taxpayers through subsidized
housing, food stamps, free medical care, etc. The lower the wages paid, the
greater the amount of money the government will need to provide to prevent the
kids from literally starving and to prevent poor people from dying when they
get ill. Enabling an employer to pay almost nothing in wages by providing
social services is a form of *corporate* welfare, moreso than individual
welfare.

Because the starving are not in a position to bargain fairly and equitably with
a prospective employer. Hell, most of the guys you want to hire for $4 an hour
would probably work for $1.50- at least until lunch when they could take their
$6 half day paycheck to McDonalds and get a sack full of something resembling
food.