Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum Call for Higher Minimum Wage
What say you, Jeb? Do you agree? Is it "an act of love?"
Jeb? Just knock once for "Yes" and twice for "No"
Posted on 05/11/2014 12:03:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the past few days, three candidates who ran for the last Republican presidential nomination, including nominee Mitt Romney, have endorsed a higher minimum wage.
Yahoo!Finance asks Mitt Romney Calls for Higher Minimum Wage. Does it Matter?
Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential nominee in 2012, called on Republicans Friday to raise the minimum wage, going against the congressional leadership of his own party.
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"I think we ought to raise it, because frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay, and I think communicating that is important to us," Mr. Romney said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
In recent days, two other Republican presidential hopefuls from 2012 – former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania – have also called for a minimum wage hike. The trend may signal that in presidential politics, some Republicans see the issue as a way to soften the party’s image across a broad electorate.
On MSNBC, Romney linked his support for a higher minimum wage to the GOP’s effort to reach out to working Americans, including Hispanics. Romney lost the Hispanic vote to President Obama, 71 percent to 27 percent.
“I also believe that key for our party is to be able to convince the people who are in the working population, particularly the Hispanic community, that our party will help them get better jobs and better wages,” Romney said.
Matter in What Sense?
The senate has blocked debate on the issue. It needs 60 votes to advance but only has 52. The fact that Mitt Romney flip-flopped twice (from for, to against, to for) does not change Senate math.
Nonetheless, Romney's flip-flopping does raise this question once again: From Obamacare to war-mongering to minimum wage, what real differences were there between Obama and Romney?
About all I can come up with is war-mongering and abortion. On the war-mongering front I remain convinced that if Romney had won the US would have attacked Iran and we would be engaged in a hopeless trade war with China.
Non-Differences
There are probably a few other differences, but arguably not on anything the President can directly control. Here are some distinct non-differences.
The 2012 election offered a classic choice of Tweedle-Dum vs. Tweedle-Dee. I said so at the time and numerous Republicans attacked me for that view.
Perhaps Republicans can see the truth now, but I doubt it. Self-assessment by bureaucrats and political parties is about zero.
Hopefully the 2016 election provides a real choice. Don't count on it. However, you can count on bluster, huffing and puffing, finger-pointing, and name calling even if there are few real differences.
Eliminate the minimum wage.
Why would you think that raising the minimum wage is compatible with more jobs? The only way both could happen at the same time is if inflation is excessive, and that hurts everybody.
Tarrifs.
Study their words carefully. Remember..."Know Thy Enemy"
("Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories"....Sun Tzu, Chinese General, 760 AD....from his writing "The Art of War")
Leni
You’re right. It’s not just business issue, it’s also a national security issue. Those who support exporting manufacturing are traitors.
Where’s McCain when you need him.
I agree.
I especially agree, now that China has become as large as America.
America cannot continue to send manufacturing abroad. We need to bring it back to America.
America is now in a competition, with China. Unless we bring back manufacturing to America, that competition will not go well at all.
Bring back American manufacturing, to America.
...and just like that Rick Santorum has dropped out of contention for 2016.
Jeb? Just knock once for "Yes" and twice for "No"
Well libfree it’s nice to see that you’re a liberal non-free market Romney type voter, maybe this is the wrong site for you.
the term “Fair Tax” is an oxymoron, there is no way a tax is fair.
I'm not against that...
How is that going to help the American low wage earner???
You don't really believe that if businesses have more money in their pockets they are going to hand it over to their hourly employees, do you???
Santorum? Pawlenty? Romney?
Anyone out there believe in MARKET FORCES????
Wow. God bless you for being a Republican, but ... Where to start. Just ... jaw-dropping, wow.
Raising the minimum wage necessarily loses jobs, the same way that raising standards for admission necessarily loses applicants.
I'm self-employed and set my own wage. When minimum wage goes up, I must raise my wage accordingly to avoid an effective wage decrease. If I don't, I must do more jobs for the same amount of money, which on the balance sheet pencils out as jobs lost.
Raising the minimum wage is anti-capitalist and anti-free markets. It is also the root cause of many afflictions. It is a major component of illegal immigration, because our "minimum wage" is a heck of a lot of money to someone fully capable of doing the work who lives in a cardboard village. Plenty of 'em in Mexico. It is a major component of bad work ethic and flawed values in teens: without minimum wage, the machine shop or garage on the corner, or the homebuilder up the street, could employ and mentor countless bright but non-academic kids into exceptionally challenging and productive life paths, but minimum wage goes a long way to making it a losing proposition. Kids remain unemployed and retain an entitlement ethic with regard to wage.
Democrats, loan sharks, gangsters do not care where you get the money to pay for what they perceive that you owe them; their increased spending, increased taxes, increased regulation, increased wages. They assume that you have or can get the extra money out of your excessive and obscene profits.
It is time for the lawmakers to stop mindlessly increasing spending, do you not agree? Or do you like the idea of micro managing businesses to make sure that they do not make "too much money?"
None of the three fit to be in the GOP.
Are you kidding? The GOP is exactly where they belong.
What these idiots just can’t get through their head is they’ll never get that 47%. I thought Romney had that figured out but apparently not. The republicans can raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour and grant amnesty to 20,000,000 Mexicans and they’ll still get no more that 30% of the Hispanic vote.
Either that, or WE are not fit to be in the GOP. If Romney fits the definition of "Republican," then ... what's the point of supporting "Republican"?
What are we going to do when one of them gets the GOP presidential nomination in 2016?
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