Posted on 05/29/2014 3:02:21 PM PDT by zeestephen
An ordinance that gradually increases the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 an hour was approved Thursday by a City Council committee, setting up a full council vote next week. In a boisterous meeting, City Council members approved a delay to the implementation of the ordinance, from Jan. 1, 2015 to April 1, 2015.
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And would no doubt resemble his village in Kenya...I mean Hawaii.
If it’s so great, why not just bump it up to $15 immediately?
/johnny
There has been some renewal in those areas already over the last five to ten years, but what you say might accelerate it.
If the feral amish left those places I’m not sure where they’d go. Maybe to the deep South?
I think people making 30,40,50 dollars an hour realized that minimum of $100 would them on a par with no-skill labor. They don’t want that much equality.
I would counter the 13th A., coupled with the Takings Clause prohibits the same.
I have yet to hear from the ‘esteemed black robed betters’ at just what % of gov’t confiscation does slavery kick in...IMHO, if one works for the benefit of another (welfare) by compulsion, that IS slavery as defined.
Gives them time to move to Bellevue.
Re: This will be entertaining
yes, I am thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, we can’t expect that the libs in Seattle will ever accept or even recognize the aftermath of their decision. As Rush pointed out years ago, “Being a liberal means never having to say you are sorry”.
This puts the minimum employer cost of a no-skill full-time employee at around $35-38,000 a year, BEFORE benefits.
Bring on the Machines...
A Self-Ordering system doesn’t show up late, call off on sunny days, require workman’s comp coverage, or risk a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Yes, and it should be a great lesson on basic economics.
As of 2010 the black population in Seattle was 8.4%.
http://www.seattle.gov/oir/datasheet/demographics.htm
If it drops, which looks like it’ll follow SFO’s lead, I bet they’ll be going to to the deep South because the cost of living is much cheaper there.
In Canada, we call BC the ‘left’ coast but other than Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland (Greater Vancouver), BC is rather more conservative.
I guess that CA, OR and WA form the ‘left’ coast in the US, though I imagine that outside of the big cities like SF, LA, Seattle and Portland, many, if not most people are conservative.
I, for one, am glad to see it happen in Seattle. Can hardly wait for it to happen in NYC, Boston, all of Vermont and Massachusetts, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester New York, Chicago, all of Minnesota-Maryland-Delaware, St Louis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Camden NJ, Newark NJ, all of Connecticut, Rhode Island, the Left Coast, etc, etc, DID I MENTION WASHINGTON DC, BY ALL MEANS WASHINGTON DC!!!!
LET THE EXPERIMENT PROCEED!@!!!
But camping in the street is either legal or never prosecuted.
He’s not the only one who has said that.
To me, the reason that this story is one to watch is Ksharma Sawant, the person who led this effort. I think that she may have mayoral aspirations. I call it DeBlasio on the Pacific.
I have now lost track of the reasons I have for not wanting to move back to Seattle.
I was reading in the Herald this morning about people in a group of in northernmost CA who are forming a secessionist movement. Not surprisingly, they feel alienated as if a lot of what’s going on in Sacramento does not take them into consideration.
Oh, and yes, you are right, people in E. Wash. are quite conservative. You see this play out almost daily with various issues.
When I had cable (now, I choose only the internet), the CBS/ABC/NBC/Fox and PBS affiliates were all from Spokane–Coeur d’Alene and the people and politics seemed much more conservative than Seattle. The news broadcasters weren’t so much, but they seemed toned down from the Seattle news broadcasters. Don’t know what it is about the ‘left’ coast, but it seems to be a bizarre place.
My thoughts exactly...
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