Posted on 02/21/2021 8:24:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Democrats really have forgotten the American worker, they are so intent upon pushing their agenda for control.
We’ve already seen this in the first moves from Joe Biden which weren’t about helping Americans or America, they were all about radical agendas over climate change and immigration. For example, Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline not caring how that it would throw thousands out of their jobs during a pandemic where the economy was already under stress.
Now in Biden’s virus “relief” bill he’s pushing for the big ticket Democratic agenda item: the $15/hour minimum wage.
Biden apparently doesn’t give a darn if that causes businesses to fold or that it will throw people out of work, he’s bowing to the wishes of the left.
So what do the Democrats think about these legitimate concerns about their radical policies?
CNN’s Abby Phillip asked Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and he showed just how clueless and evil their approach is.
Dem Rep: “we don't want" the small businesses that would be forced under by a federal wage mandatehttps://t.co/uzKBVocjXG pic.twitter.com/59Mgv3ETaj
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 21, 2021
“Businesses like Amazon and McDonald’s, for example, can and perhaps should, pay more, but I’m wondering, what is your plan for smaller businesses?” CNN’s Abby Phillip inquired. “How does this, in your view, affect mom and pop businesses who are just struggling to keep their doors open, keep workers on the payroll right now?”
“Well, they shouldn’t be doing it by paying people low wages,” Khanna responded. “We don’t want low-wage businesses. I think most successful small businesses can pay a fair wage.” So if businesses go under and jobs are lost because of this so what because they should be paying more, he thinks.
He claimed he “loved” small businesses but not those who were “underpaying.” “I love small businesses,” he claimed. “I’m all for it but I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees. It’s fair for people to make what they’re producing and I think $15 is very reasonable in this country.” He actually claimed that if workers were paid for their “productivity” they would be paid $23/hour. So if you think they’re going to stop, he’s likely hinting where they’d go next if they get what they want now.
Remember when Democrats used to pretend they cared about the local businesses, that they cared about the little mom and pop shops? Well, he just blew that fiction apart, for sure. What this actually benefits is the big places like Amazon that can afford it and monopolize the market. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted that this move will cost at least 1.4 million jobs at time where we are still in a pandemic. He doesn’t give a darn about that.
When Khanna was pressed upon whether he might have to compromise, that that might be an impediment to passage of the relief bill, he got snotty and said well maybe it was time for moderates to compromise and leave that provision in the bill.
Progressives have a track record of always compromising pass COVID relief.
Why aren’t we asking the moderates to comprise this time on final passage so we can get a $15 min wage, which the overwhelming majority of Americans want? pic.twitter.com/vslkKqJ0ir
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) February 21, 2021
By the way, this guy was also a friend on Facebook of Fang Fang, the alleged Chinese spy with whom Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) had a relationship and who tried to get close to a host of California politicians.
HT: Townhall
Correct. ‘they don’t want you to.’
$15 minimum wage is a way to consolidate power. It is actually quite clever really. Instead of going in and just taking the farm and moving people into the city, raising the minimum wage this high accomplishes the same end goal, just a little more softly.
Those not ‘smart enough’ to be able to hold jobs at the higher wage, will likely find themselves outsourced to work on the Gates farmland or they will be using the immigrants on the farms to do jobs Americans refuse to do.
No more retarded than asking for a $2K “stimulus check,” in other words very retarded.
America Leadership becoming Indian...Pakastani...Chinese....and a host of others running our country in the interest of their home countries and change our culture norms to theirs....it is never ending.
They’re appointing people of other cultures to take the lead so when it all crashes they’ll blame them.
Criminal democrats. Remember, though, the real enemy are democrat voters.
And that’s how you lose small businesses. I’d love to know who that clown’s donors are.
Their culture background sees everything through the lens of the haves and the have nots. And that the US is a rich nation that can afford whatever politicians think they should.
I hate our country being led by people with different culture back grounds/leanings. They sign up for every organization and committee that will 'rip off' our governments revenue for their home country and favor their personal activist agendas.
Rep. Ro Khanna Named 4th Richest Californian in Congress
Cheapskate! $55 sounds good to me. Heck, make it $60. Whoever can’t or won’t pay that measly amount should close their doors.
Fast food hamburgers will cost $200 if the min wage goes up. Just ask any Freeper.
It is more complicated than that. If min wage did go up it would take a lot of workers off of public assistence.
It is more complicated than that. If min wage did go up it would take a lot of workers off of public assistance.
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I was replying to the poster that said the minimum-wage should be eliminated.
Without a huge new government bureaucracy and programs and the 80 million unemployed since the covid-lockdowns, wages will bottom out.
There is no shortage of workers. Highly skilled career workers with full benefits were forced to take minimum wage non-benefits starter jobs to survive due to the extremely broken unemployment systems in most states
You think with such huge number of desperate workers, wages will go anywhere but down with the elimination of the minimum wage.
Those former career workers with college degrees and decades of experience are already forcing unskilled workers without college diplomas out of the jobs market.
That is fukked up.
Small business types have ignored the deleterious effects globalism had on workers for thirty year. Not their problem. While the Republican Party sold out the US work force to globalist free trade interests our small business owners ignored that and just kept listening to Limbaugh.
People who cannot produce enough to justify a wage of $14.50 hr should not be allowed to work but should be required to live on the government dole unless they are known to harbor conservative views in which case they should be encouraged to starve or live on the street.
People who cannot produce enough to justify a wage of $14.50 hr should not be allowed to work but should be required to live on the government dole unless they are known to harbor conservative views in which case they should be encouraged to starve or live on the street.
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Unfortunately, with 80 million aggregate unemployed since the covid-19 lockdowns, those that can’t make $14.50 on their own have skyrocketed.
Your second half of the statement is true, unfortunately, with this new regime.,
Wealth is one of the few things created by mankind. It is created by mankind because it is measured by mankind. WEALTH CAN ONLY BE CREATED WHEN THE COST OF CREATING WEALTH IS LESS THAN THE VALUE OF THE PRODUCT THAT IS CREATED. In other words, wealth can only be created when the cost of labor and materials is less than the value of the product. If it doesn’t, the labor destroys wealth, it does not create it. Government only consumes wealth. It doesn’t create it, either.
Even these Marxist Democrats understand this. If they could really lift everyone out of poverty by raising the minimum wage, why not make it $1,500.00 per hour, so everyone could be a millionaire by working only a third of the year?
Capitalism creates wealth. Socialism destroys wealth. That’s why Socialism always fails.
Small business types have ignored the deleterious effects globalism had on workers for thirty year. Not their problem. While the Republican Party sold out the US work force to globalist free trade interests our small business owners ignored that and just kept listening to Limbaugh.
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So true. Republicans care for their constituents in India (and Communist China) far more that they care for Americans, and Democrats care for their constituents in Mexico (and Communist China) for more than they care for Americans.
Low-cost of labor and manufacturing beats giving jobs to Americans any day. Sadly, many Freepers agree with the globalists.
I used to think Freepers were really smart. There is thread on minimum wage where one dumba$$ thinks doubling of the minimum wage also doubles the retail price of a product.
Putting a floor on wages is not forwarding the cause of socialism.
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