But the White House issued a statement saying “they are wrong”. So I guess everything is OK.
Vicious Circle ... Once started, is difficult to stop. Inflation or Deflation ... two sides of one coin. No matter on which side the coin lands ... Huge Losses.
These are just "job-locked" workers, yearning to breathe free, free from the shackles that bind them to their meager paychecks. With Obamacare, they need not worry about the day-to-day drudgeries inflicted upon them in their minimum-wage job.
Stupid.
Raising the minimum wage is very popular, it will be interesting to see if this sways any opinions.
The CBO’s range of the number of lost jobs went up to 1 million...
Maybe it would help some of the PACs to run Union stories. For example, “Most of the news your read and TV you watch is produced by members of a UNION. The unions are the biggest contributors to politicians (show chart). Why do you think the folks that suggest to you that business pay more or that wages should be hirer or that there should be more UNION jobs in government - why do this stories get such favorable treatment...UNIONS!!” Then show some fat union bosses at a conference - Tag LINE - Unions they get all the good press.
Something’s gotta give. You either lose jobs, cut hours, eliminate benefits, stagnate the wages of proven employees, raise prices or all of the above.
“The Public Employee Fair Wage Act”
The concept is simple, nobody is forced to live on minimum wage. Everyone will be paid the same. After all, doesn't fairness require that everyone have a living wage?
Let's use public schools as an example. We take the entire employee wage budget and divide it equally for every employee. Principal to janitor and lunch lady, everyone gets the same ‘fair’ wage.
The janitor and lunch lady will get a nice bump in wages to a very livable $17.28 hr. That would warm the hearts of all the liberals...right?
Too be fair pensions and benefits will have to divided equally too, so everyone will get an Owebamacare ‘Bronze’ basic plan and a pension of $16,437.00 yr after 40 years of service.
With their Social Security check of $14,000 a year they can retire in relative comfort with a tad over 30k a year.
There should be some savings for the schools in money spent bargaining all those union contracts, the whole thing can now be figured out on the back of a napkin over lunch!
That should put everyone safely over the food stamp level so we won't have to read anymore newspaper articles about first year teachers on food stamps. Those were real tearjerkers around contract time every year.
Now we just follow the same plan through every government dept and the liberals will have fair wages for everyone.
Wow....Talk about manipulating numbers.
Raising the minimum wage increases the risk of “job-lock.”
Best leave it where it is now or, better yet, reduce it.
Can’t be too careful, y’know.
George Will had it right. Liberals raise the price of tobacco to cut down smoking, raise the price of gas to discourage driving but can’t see the effect of raising the price of labor.