Posted on 08/23/2006 7:04:10 AM PDT by Hydroshock
But are we obligated tp pay this wage to illegal aliens? I think not.
Practically, no one makes minimum wage in California.
One million out of 35 million on minimum wage here - most in their teens. The headline is wrong - this increase makes us 3rd highest to Oregon and New York.
Ton's of people make the min. in CA...........
It's an entry level wage for many, many businesses....and I can name companies if you need them.
Just more Democrat political jockeying for an edge in the war to unseat Schwarzenegger.
Big time Californication at it's ugliest.
( None but the campaign managers really care a fig about the issue or the wage -earner in all of this. Just crummy "Big Time" California politics.)
The left would love to have total control over wages and prices (communism). They can't get it yet. So they give us communism-lite. Notice how the politicians are happy-giggling about controlling ATM fees but totally refuse to control taxes.
I'm wise to their tactics.
That's gotta be one of the stupidest things I've heard in a long time.
"Ton's of people make the min. in CA..........."
I think in the US it's about 2.5% of all hourly workers, not counting salaried workers, make minimum wage. Are you suggesting it is considerably higher in CA?
Just be thankful they're not requiring a "living wage" for all of California, what with the average price of a home in most cities being around $600,000.
Nope...I was replying to the posters statement.
This might start another gold rush...
But yet people wonder why everything is so expensive in California.
This country can't sustain itself if 85% of the people have lost all common sense.
Just wondering. I just think if there has to be a minimum wage, it should be a state thing and not national. CA's is pretty high so I wwas wondering if that relegated more people than normal to making minimum.
Practical experience tells me that the higher the "min. wage" goes...the higher the number of people "only making min. wage" goes...
The high cost liberal centers (cities) is having an impact on the future demographics of CA. The typical liberals have a birthrate of 1.47 per 100, while the conservatives have a birthrate of 2.08 per 100. Feminist attitudes in marriage and high cost liberal areas (need for dual incomes) discourage large families. Let the liberals keep piling policies that undermind their future. Most kids (about 80 percent) vote the party their parents support. Assuming the GOP and Democrat Party does not change their positions by much, in the next 14 years there should be slightly more GOP voters than Dem voters. Ohio will be 60 percent GOP over Dems, and New York state 55 percent GOP over Dems. In 2012 these demographics will start to manifest, by 2020 it will become more pronounce. Fourteen years seem like a long time, but it is not, so Conservatives don't get discouraged, hang in there.
/sarcasm off
They should raise it so everyone makes $100,000 a year. Then we will all be rich and happy! (Sarcasm dripping)
Plus, aren't some salaries keyed to multiples of the min. wage?
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