Progressive Solution for 25% Real Black Unemployment? Price Them Out-of-the-Market w/ $10 Min. Wage!

Reaganite Republican ^ | April 10, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

"The minimum wage is the 

'Black Teenage Unemployment Act'... 

The guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities 

and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is 

if you price their original services too high..."  -Art Laffer

As Rep Duncan Hunter (R-Ca) attempts to floor a bill that would force the US Labor Department to publish real unemployment numbers -ones that actually reflect the all-time-record number of Americans who have given up/left the labor force- some Democrats are now planning to unveil ill-advised legislation that would hike the federal minimum wage to as much as ten bucks an hour... a monstrous and unprecedented 35% leap from the current $7.25/hr (!)

Small wonder the Obama Administration feels the need to lie about the appalling number of jobless Americans today... 

all he's planning to do is make it worse.

Such a gargantuan increase in the minimum wage will only help those who already have jobs, and anybody (and their dog) can tell you that this sort of thing -along with massive tax hikes- is about the worst possible idea the Dems could propose here in the midst of the Great Recession.

Alas- since the habitually dishonest Obama regime is so skilled at purporting that they're helping the economy by crippling it, winning wars by quitting, and bringing us together by igniting race wars, nobody should be too surprised to see them tell unemployed young blacks they're 'helping' them while pricing their labor completely out of the market.

Politics is obviously at the core of this transparent election-year stunt (along with pressure from Bolshevik boneheads of the #occupy movement, desperate to produce some 'gain' from the last few wasted months), yet 'income-equality' is just another manufactured 'debate' (i.e. 'access-to-birth control' charades) the White House is keen to introduce to the conversation this year (and shift the topic from myriad reasons to not vote for them):

Many Democrats and their labor allies say the time is right to push for another increase, and not just because it is hard to live on the $15,080 a year earned by a person working full time at minimum wage. 

They say a public debate now over the merits of increasing wages is bound to put many Republicans on the defensive during an election year and would encourage low-income Americans — an important part of the Democratic base — to go to the polls this November. 

 “It’s always good to surface an issue that captures voters’ enthusiasm and distinguishes the bad guys and the good guys,” said Jen Kern, minimum wage campaign coordinator at the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for low-wage workers.

This one's just like Barack likes 'em, too... he can pretend to be aiding unemployed blacks and others while actually ensuring hordes of entitlement-dependent serfs remain surgically-attached to the 'progressive' Left for the foreseeable future- perfect.

Simply put, Barack Obama is black America's worst enemy: Van Jones may think that Obama owns you, but imho it might be time for more African-Americans to take a real hard look at what this guy has actually done for you... which is in-reality squat by any measure (unless you happen by odd chance to be running a scam 'green energy' outfit).

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[Senator_Blutarski]

If you get bad grades, don't finish school, have tattoos and piercings, have a criminal record and can't get out of bed in the morning it makes finding a job difficult. There is a large segment of the US population that is unemployable.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[Senator_Blutarski]

I would also add that there are a lot of people who complain about being unemployed but don’t really want to find a job.

[caver]

The moron also wants to lower gas prices by increasing taxes on oil companies.

[cincinnati65]

The only way that this so-called "logic" works, is for liberals to admit that the reason the unemployment rate is so high is because the current minimum wage makes it unattractive to work. The habitually unemployed's excuse of "if they want me to work, they're going to have to pay me. I'm not working for minimum wage."

IF that's the case, then they've proven the case we've been trying to make, that the current unemployment structure makes it too attractive NOT to work and should be curtailed.

[Mister Da]

“... to as much as ten bucks an hour... a monstrous and unprecedented 35% leap from the current $7.25/hr (!)”

I imagine this is just to keep up with inflation!

[MulberryDraw]

If you feed the dolphins, they quit teaching their young how to hunt and within a generation or so, they can no longer provide for themselves:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/04/problem-of-dolphins-on-welfare-and-what.html

This is LBJ’s Great Society.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I would also add that there are a lot of people who complain about being unemployed but don’t really want to find a job.

My ex used to say, "The only thing worse than looking for a job is finding one."

[muawiyah]

Still, there's an absence of jobs.

Promotions are far harder to come by these days due to lack of turnover at the top as those who have jobs hang onto them to support more dependents.

At the moment the minimum wage is a theory ~ unemployment is a reality.

[Reaganite Republican]

“If you get bad grades, don’t finish school, have tattoos and piercings, have a criminal record and can’t get out of bed in the morning it makes finding a job difficult. There is a large segment of the US population that is unemployable.”

EXCELLENT point, Senator

Tattoos on your face is a non-starter at the interview lol

[Reaganite Republican]

Personal *PING*

[ken5050]

Why stop at $10/hr for the minimum wage..If $10/hour is a good thing, then it stands to reason that $20/hr is TWICE as good...

I call that CBC ( congressional black caucus) economics..)

[Reaganite Republican]

“I call that CBC ( congressional black caucus) economics..)”

Exactly- them and other Dems just trying to get re-elected with our money again, and for NO macro result economically