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Obama Talks Minimum Wage Over $13.99 Reuben Sandwich
http://leomcneil.net/2014/04/03/obama-talks-minimum-wage-over-13-99-reuben-sandwich/ ^ | Leo McNeil

Posted on 04/03/2014 5:35:20 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil

Our post-partisan President reached a new low yesterday. Speaking at Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan he declared Paul Ryan’s budget a “stinkburger” or “meanwich.” Obama is apparently promoting an increase in the minimum wage. He went to Zingerman’s because they allegedly offer a “fair” wage. The left doesn’t seem to understand that a “fair” wage is whatever an employee agrees to work for. In other words, it isn’t determined by government bureaucrats or academics. That’s beside the point of course, we know Obama believes everything in our lives must be decided in Washington. The problem of course is that Zingerman’s isn’t the place to make this argument and the Paul Ryan budget is really not relevant to anything.

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TOPICS: Food; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: annarbor; blogpimp; michigan; minimumwage; numberdunce; obama; paulryan; postthewholearticle; socialism; wisconsin; zingerman
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To: cripplecreek
And are the Zingermans employees on Obamacare or 29 hours a week ....inquiring minds seek to know....
21 posted on 04/03/2014 6:44:07 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: LeoMcNeil

Zingermans would go bankrupt trying to sell $14 Rubans anywhere but the liberal $hithole of Ann Arbor.


22 posted on 04/03/2014 6:45:20 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: humblegunner

Because he wants us to click the link back to his blog and pump up his hit count?


23 posted on 04/03/2014 6:45:58 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: spokeshave

Wow. Your right. He clearly needs a “Man Servant” like they have on Downton Abbey. They never would have such a flux pas like that.


24 posted on 04/03/2014 6:47:50 AM PDT by napscoordinator ( Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: LeoMcNeil
he declared Paul Ryan’s budget a “stinkburger” or “meanwich.”

How presidential.

25 posted on 04/03/2014 6:50:10 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Beagle8U

Having grown up in that area of Michigan, I would travel to Zingerman’s for history’s sake. I wouold not order the Reuben (i don’t like saurkraut) but Zingerman’s is among a small number of “take-out” restaurants in that area that created the original coney dog.

When I go home, I “try like hell” to go to one of the “original’s” between Chicago and Detroit.


26 posted on 04/03/2014 6:53:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: Abathar

Anyone that advocates raising the min wage to $10.10 and is not only willing but more than happy to pay $14 for a damn sandwich is an idiot that doesn’t need to be anywhere near the Oval Office.

“$14 is a reasonable price for a sandwich because I care.”

I don’t spend $14 to shove actual food in my face for a week and this idiot spends it on one damn sandwich and thinks it’s great and everyone should be happy to pay it.


27 posted on 04/03/2014 6:54:34 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: LeoMcNeil

When the Article V convention is assembled, hopefully they will consider an “American citizen liberty act”, in which, without any penalty whatsoever, “American citizens only” can refuse any direct interface with the national government.

(This is a rough draft of the concept)

This means that they may choose for their citizenship, first and foremost, to be with their individual state, that it acts as a buffer between them and the federal government, minimizing contact or influence by the national government.

In practice it means that they do not pay taxes of any sort directly to the federal government. They do not benefit from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, or other largess, *in exchange for which* they cannot be taxed or otherwise punished, including the denial of licenses, for this rejection, either from the national or state government.

Likewise they cannot be prohibited from using interstate means of public transport, from crossing national borders, from accessing federal courts, or denied any other right, natural or afforded all citizens.

Part of the act will be to list what exactly the federal government can do as a form of interface. It may request states to provide an “actual enumeration only” of those individuals, records of any state felony conviction, and outstanding felony warrants.

States will maintain the Selective Service System records for such persons, and any federal military draft may only demand proportional numbers of potential inductees, to come from equivalent measures of both federal citizens and state citizens.

(as you can tell, this is both a draft and under-defined as to its particulars, but this “divorce” from the federal government needs to integrate over 100 years of “progressive” efforts to federalize direct national control over the citizenry.)


28 posted on 04/03/2014 6:59:40 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: cripplecreek

“Sure would be nice if Obama would keep his hands out of mine.”

Front and back.

That boy got the look of someone that will play “pocket pool” in a heartbeat if you let him.


29 posted on 04/03/2014 7:00:44 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: LeoMcNeil

What made it so expensive is the sandwich was grilled between the thighs of Scarlett Johansson.


30 posted on 04/03/2014 7:15:32 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: LeoMcNeil

I haven’t had a Reuben in years


31 posted on 04/03/2014 7:35:10 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: sickoflibs
"I haven’t had a Reuben in years..."

Here ya go:


32 posted on 04/03/2014 7:37:37 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

He’s trying to reason with Danny Partridge in that scene,


33 posted on 04/03/2014 7:46:30 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: LeoMcNeil

I worked for a retail company that had Ann Arbor locations in the 1980’s.

It is a little pocket of fantastically expensive housing costs. We found you could not hire locals at anything close to the minimum wage. You had to offer substantially more than that to get most of your help to drive over from Jackson, 35 miles away. And you were scroooood if it snowed.

The Ruben costs fourteen bucks, and the help is making a “living wage” because those are the market conditions in the local area. Their rent is likely so high the whole thing is a wash.


34 posted on 04/03/2014 8:03:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

The original coney was invented in Jackson, Mi.

Jackson Coney Island is the only place you can get an original coney.


35 posted on 04/03/2014 8:52:59 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; All

“Birthplace of the Coney Island Hot Dog[edit]

In 1914 George Todoroff founded the first coney island restaurant and created his famous coney island hot dog topping. His coney island restaurant was located directly in front of the railroad station located on East Michigan Ave and was open 24 hours. The restaurant proved to be a popular dining option for rail passengers, and over the course of 31 years George sold over 17 million coney dogs. Today two coney island restaurants unaffiliated with Todoroffs sit in a building near the train station on East Michigan Avenue. In addition to this several area restaurants throughout the Jackson area offer their own version of the coney island hot dog, or just “coney” as referred to by local residents. Jackson’s version of the coney dog is distinctly different than what you will find at Detroit area coney island restaurants as well as other coney island restaurants throughout Michigan and the midwest.[8]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan


36 posted on 04/03/2014 9:02:56 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; All

“Birthplace of the Coney Island Hot Dog[edit]

In 1914 George Todoroff founded the first coney island restaurant and created his famous coney island hot dog topping. His coney island restaurant was located directly in front of the railroad station located on East Michigan Ave and was open 24 hours. The restaurant proved to be a popular dining option for rail passengers, and over the course of 31 years George sold over 17 million coney dogs. Today two coney island restaurants unaffiliated with Todoroffs sit in a building near the train station on East Michigan Avenue. In addition to this several area restaurants throughout the Jackson area offer their own version of the coney island hot dog, or just “coney” as referred to by local residents. Jackson’s version of the coney dog is distinctly different than what you will find at Detroit area coney island restaurants as well as other coney island restaurants throughout Michigan and the midwest.[8]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan


37 posted on 04/03/2014 9:03:07 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Beagle8U; cripplecreek

Thanks.

My family (on my father’s side) and George T go back a-ways. My Grampa Earl and GT were “social contemporaries” (shared a few weekend vino’s together). Funny how that works because my mother’s side were “social” with Win Schuler and sons.

I’m sure Crip knows either George or one of the kids.

Jack-town’s Todoroff’s is an “everytime I come home” visit.
Do you frequent the DogHouse on Lansing Ave? Another gem of Jack-town!


38 posted on 04/03/2014 10:06:20 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I worked at Jackson Coney Island back in the early 60’s in every step of the process.

I have the original coney sauce recipe and just make my own at home.

I substitute deer hearts for the beef heart though.


39 posted on 04/03/2014 10:40:45 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: LeoMcNeil

As we have seen many times in the past, any company that obama praises will fail.
You can now put Zingerman on that list.


40 posted on 04/03/2014 11:09:02 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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