$18,720

Nine bucks an hour is $18,720 a year, if you get 40 hours a week all 52 weeks of the year.  Does that sound like a revolutionary proposal for the United States in 2013?  Seriously, not even 19 grand a year, at the most.  That is fucking nonsense.  If Obama really wanted to make those reactionary teabagging Republicans squirm, he should have gone just a tiny bit bigger and raised his proposal by 50% for a $13.50/hour minimum wage--or better yet, a living wage, indexed to inflation.  $13.50 is still only 28 grand a year, so nobody with any brains thinks that's enough to live on.  Raising the minimum wage is a great way to begin to reverse the outrageous transfer of wealth away from the working classes up to the oligarchs.  The more people get paid, the more money they spend, and the better the economy is for everyone, even the asshole Koch brothers and their Koch-sucking teabaggers.  Sure, the richest of the rich like the Walton family might have to do with just a little less in the next few years, but it would be so much better for the economy as a whole.