Minimum-wage employees produce wealth--but mainly for the class with the means to evade taxation. The Democratic party is far from as monolithic as you portray it Silverhorn. It's a fairly centrist party--a fact bore out by the fact that it will be the party that has won the last 3 presidential elections--the Republican party being beyond the pale for the tastes of most mainstream Americans. The Democratic party mainly represents the interests of the rich since in the American system corporations are "people" and money is "speech." The Democratic party is simply more successful at negotiating the American political center than the white trash racists and religious freaks in control of the Republican party.