I am Richasrd Richmond. I was the person speaking at the Occupy Orlando Rally. At no time during my 20 minute speech did I call for a $20.00 an hour minimum wage.

This is a canard to distract you from the simple message I was delivering. That message is that a small, extraordinarily wealthy group of individuals and their Wall St. support mechanisms have coordinated a plan to move jobs to developing counties where wages are less than 1/10th of those needed to sustain a quality life in the USA.

It is impossible to create jobs in America when there are 500 million agricultural Chinese willing to move to cities, live in labor camps and work for less than $2.00 per hour.

I offered the simple solution of taxing imports by the labor differential between developing and developed societies. If there is 3 hours of labor in the cost component of an item (I used bicycles as an example) and there was an $8.00 an hour difference in the labor component of production, then that item would face an import duty. (In my example: 3 Hours x 80% of the labor differential of $8.00 an hour would equal $19.20.

This tax forces nations to compete not by offering its citizens as industrial slaves, but by being inventive and innovative.

In this way the deficit would be reduced, developing societies would still have a competitive advantage in the wage component, but the impact on American jobs(and those of other more developed nations) would be substantially reversed. In essence, slowing the enormously rapid transfer of jobs from the USA and its developed allies to China.

I stated that a working American family requires approximately $20.00 an hour ($800. a week, $40,000 a year) in order to support, feed, educate and provide for their children's education, college costs and retirement savings.

A $20.00 minimum wage is unsustainable at this time. I would never make such a statement nor would I support it legislatively.