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Ben Carson backs raising minimum wage
http://thehill.com ^ | May 8, 2015 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 11/11/2015 10:22:08 AM PST by NKP_Vet

Conservative presidential candidate Ben Carson says the $7.25 federal minimum wage should be raised.

“I think, probably, it should be higher than now,” Carson told CNBC’s John Harwood in an interview Friday.

Carson added that government assistance often provides more than the minimum wage in several states, allowing people to ignore the long-term benefits of a job.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; biggovernment; carson; elections; gope; guncontrol; rino; uniparty; wagecontrols
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To: Jim Robinson; Longbow1969
Wage controls, gun control, amnesty = big government RINO. No thanks.

Yeppers, I have those policy differences against him as well.

Policy differences I can handle, it's attacks like the Politico hack piece that I will defend Carson on.

I also agree with Longbow1969 about Trump.

But if it comes down to Hillary and Carson or Trump, it will be Carson or Trump for president.

21 posted on 11/11/2015 10:43:28 AM PST by celmak (GO TED CRUZ !!!)
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To: Longbow1969

Agreed.


22 posted on 11/11/2015 10:45:22 AM PST by celmak (GO TED CRUZ !!!)
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To: jjsheridan5

He has steadily avoided the pitfalls and has slowly risen in the polls as the libs and Kardashian candidates flitter up and down on the fickle whims of their fickle supporters.

At the end of the race he will be where he needs to be. In firm control of a firm voter support network. People can then either get on board or not.


23 posted on 11/11/2015 10:45:45 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks, Jim! Now he’s in favor of the sovereignty killing TPP.


24 posted on 11/11/2015 10:48:30 AM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: jjsheridan5
while he is a great thinker and debater, he has shown no ability, whatsoever, to gain traction with the vast majority of voters.

It pains me to say it, but I do agree that Cruz has yet to really show he can expand beyond what one would consider he natural base of followers - learned, grounded, ideological conservatives. He is improving slowly within the Republican field - but very slowly, and that does leave one to wonder what kind of cross over appeal he would have in a general election. Cruz is improving as a candidate though and as the most conservative candidate in the race and a skilled debater who really understands the issues, I will continue supporting him.

Cruz' only realistic path to the white house begins with a prominent position in a Trump administration.

Trump is near the bottom of my list. Sorry, but no thanks. If he is the nominee I would vote for him in the general, but I would not be enthusiastic about a self promoting realityTV star who I see as not much more than a con man. Hey, what ever happened to his birther investigation? His said his investigators were finding all kinds of amazing stuff in Hawaii.........and then nothing. Not a peep. What happened to that?

25 posted on 11/11/2015 10:48:57 AM PST by Longbow1969
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To: NKP_Vet
It is the novel approach to illegal immigration to make it too expensive for anyone to ever hire an illegal!
26 posted on 11/11/2015 10:49:54 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: Norm Lenhart

We will see. I hope you are right. But I don’t think Cruz can, for reasons beyond his control, tap into the broad anti-Establishment sentiment that is clearly dominating the political landscape.


27 posted on 11/11/2015 10:51:19 AM PST by jjsheridan5
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To: Tenacious 1

I like Ben Carson for Surgeon General or head of HSS

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We don’t need a surgeon general. Not sure what HSS is but we probably don’t need that either.


28 posted on 11/11/2015 10:51:59 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Of course he is, he’s the GOPe plant to knock Trump out to get Bush in to get Hillary elected....why would he say so many stupid remarks if he wasn’t a RAT....


29 posted on 11/11/2015 10:56:45 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, I hope you do too!!!)
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To: jjsheridan5

There is exactly one reason that Cruz, as far and away the most conservative candidate in the race, can fail. If conservatives make excuses as usual and vote for a less conservative candidate.

We claim to be conservatives. Cruz has a proven record of lifetime conservationism well into the upper 90th percentile. The people slamming him over his couple mistakes gleefully avoided far worse records to try electing Mitt Romney. That takes their excuses completely of the table in any honest evaluation.

WE stand with Cruz, he wins. We don’t, we get whatever ‘hope and change’ bring our way.


30 posted on 11/11/2015 10:57:22 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: NKP_Vet

Right now, all you can say about Ben Carson is ‘outsider’.

And he’s trying hard to blend in with the establishment and pundit crowd.

Anytime I see Carson being described as conservative, I’ll know better.


31 posted on 11/11/2015 10:58:34 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Graybeard58
We don’t need a surgeon general. Not sure what HSS is but we probably don’t need that either.

lol. Agreed. While we are making demands of the Wizard here in Oz, I vote for the abolishion of the following as well:

Dept. of Education

EPA

The FED Reserve

Commerce Department

FDA (most of it anyway) Consumer Safety (whatever it's called)

Health and Human Services

Housing and Urban Development

Department of the Interior (nobody even knows what they do)

Department of Agriculture

Small Business Administration

While we are at it, we should also sell the US Postal Service.

32 posted on 11/11/2015 11:04:48 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: celmak

Carson, though a nice guy by all accounts, is not conservative. Too many issues we disagree on, minimum wage being the latest.


33 posted on 11/11/2015 11:07:24 AM PST by tioga
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To: chris37

“Conservative Backs Raising Minimum Wage” is an oxymoron.


34 posted on 11/11/2015 11:07:53 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: albie

Sort of like I was “offered a full scholarship” didn’t really mean he was offered one. But it’s OK if Saint Ben misleads people, because he’s such a good Christian man.


35 posted on 11/11/2015 11:07:56 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: tioga

Sad fact of the matter is, our electorate is not that conservative this time around.

Raising taxes on the wealthy and Wall Street, raising the minimum wage, increasing Social Security benefits, will all be highly popular in this cycle IMO.


36 posted on 11/11/2015 11:09:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I hope and pray you are wrong. I pray that the only folks motivated to go to the polls are true conservatives who will vote Cruz into office.


37 posted on 11/11/2015 11:11:19 AM PST by tioga
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To: NKP_Vet

Political toast.


38 posted on 11/11/2015 11:17:24 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: NKP_Vet

Political toast.


39 posted on 11/11/2015 11:17:30 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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To: NKP_Vet

Political toast.


40 posted on 11/11/2015 11:17:47 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
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