You need to be able to read and comprehend to get the point (I guess). Big government social welfare policies and the fiat money they have used to make it all appear "affordable" is the root of this problem. A lack of demand is impossible - demand is infinite. The problem is the limitations to funding demand, and in order to increase that, you must first produce something and sell it to obtain the wherewithall to consume. It's Say's Law:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/says-law.asp
Left wingers ignore this most basic economic law in their zeal to demonize production and glorify labor (consumption). It's back door Marxism (wealth redistribution), and it simply has no merit.
Ah, the Ford fallacy raises its ugly progressive head again. Henry Ford didn't pay his workers more so they could buy his automobiles, he paid them more to keep them from leaving. Even Paul Krugman gets it:
As Paul Krugman points out, the effects are obvious:
But in any case there is a fundamental flaw in the argument: Surely the benefits of low turnover and high morale in your work force come not from paying a high wage, but from paying a high wage “compared with other companies” — and that is precisely what mandating an increase in the minimum wage for all companies cannot accomplish.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/#53e30e4c1c96
Look, if progressive economic policies worked, we'd be in a new golden age of American labor prosperity after seven years of Obamunism. You people simply need to be relegated to the dust bin of economic history - there is simply no "there, there" with respect to your economic ideology. It fails every where and time it is tried. Yet you keep yammering that we need more of it. It's mind numbing how economically obtuse the progressives have become...