It is the worker stripped of our rights who need to litigate in court. When I came to Eugene living on the streets no one would hire me at $4 an hour or better wages, which would be the equivalent of the 2nd highest minimum wage in the nation in 1985. I had no problem hustling up entry level jobs that paid the federal minimum wage. This priceless opportunity afforded me a starting point and the ability to attain skills and experience needed to gain better employment. When liberal democrats raised our minimum wage to the highest in the nation they killed trickle up economics 101 chaining people like me to the streets. We are now forced to become criminals working under the table in order to attain employment as we are denied our right to negotiate our own wages for work we render. Voting for democrats to advocate for the poor is like hiring child molesters to babysit children.