If they actually have the financial where-with-all to avoid taking minimum wage jobs, they may be justified in not taking the minimum wage jobs. However, if they are in desperate need of an income of some sort, then they should try for the minimum wage jobs. Unfortunately, too many minimum wage employers are unwilling to hire people who are highly educated or who once had very good paying jobs – the applicants are told that they are “over-qualified”. Also, hiring highly educated people for minimum wage jobs knocks out the less well educated people who also need a job. Over all, the Republicans seem to be totally out of touch with the jobs situation in the United States. They are trying very hard to lay the blame on Obama, but the blame rests on Wall Street & the Republican companies who sent most of the US jobs over-seas.