Pelosi backtracks, now says Samoa NOT exempt - FOX

Me | 1/12/07 | georgiadawg32

[Mr J]

American Samoa knows the folly of job-killing wage controls.

[Beckwith]

"What's a Samoa? Is it a drink with an umbrella in it?"

"It's a girl scout cookie, right?"

That's pretty disrespectful of the inhabitants of the American territory.

Take this guy for example



Since I know your a woosie and have no idea who this is, let me introduce you to Junior Seau.

The other thing you need to know is that most Samoans can kick your ass and that's a fact Jack. It's simply what they do. It's a cultural thing.

If you want respect, you have to show respect.

[WhiteGuy]

she is NOT taking the right position....

yeah but increasing the minimum wage is BAD, right?

perhaps there is more than enough partisan selective enforcement to go around for both parties, huh?

[showme_the_Glory]

Yeah.... Well great picture but I eat Samoas for lunch. They respect ME.

[Spunky]

Don't know if this has been talked about as I just got on. I was listening to Michael Medved and he said the nick name going around for Polosi is based on a James Bond movie. She is known as:

PELOSI GALORE

[conservative in nyc]

So American Samoa has always been excluded from federal legislation pertaining to the minimum wage and they're still excluding, is that how you're reading this?

That's basically what happened - except at the same time, the Democrats decided to get rid of the historic exemption for the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands - leaving American Samoa alone with a lower industry-specific minimum wage.

What's the difference between the two places? American Samoa has a Democrat non-voting Congressional Delegate. The CNMI has no Congressional Delegate, but usually votes Republican for their Resident Representative to Washington (essentially, a lobbyist) and government. Because they have no delegate in Congress, the CNMI relies a lot more on lobbyists to get the things they want. The CNMI was one of Jack Abramof's big clients.

The Democrats will try to justify the disparity in part because they think the CNMI has a history of garment industry "sweatshops", and that the CNMI's labor practices need to be reformed. They also will claim that American Samoa's economy is a lot less diversified than the CNMI (which is closer to Japan and benefits more from tourism). While this might be so, the CNMI's economy has been hurting for a while now, too, and the minimum wage hike there will cause more pain - as it will for small businesses around the country.

[Graymatter]

If pulling one's hand out of the cookie jar is retracting, then yes she retracted.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Democratic spokesman now says the language to omit Samoa was an oversight which will be corrected in committee..

[conservative in nyc]

What she DID say was that the oversight "would be corrected as soon as possible in committee."

What committee? The conference committee on the bill? Or is this going to make the floor as a stand-alone bill? If so, and the tuna canneries threaten to close if the minimum wage there is doubled, it would crystallize all the reasons why hiking the minimum wage solves little, causing job losses and/or higher prices. Bring it on!

By the way, leaving out American Samoa from the minimum wage hike was no "oversight".

[GeorgiaDawg32]

pelosi knows full well the raise in miminum wage is the wrong thing to do and will result in higher unemployment but she's catering to her base which will absolutely refuse to believe this, and which will vote heavily democratic in the next election because "they done gave us a raise"..mark my words..

[Beckwith]

Yeah.... Well great picture but I eat Samoas for lunch. They respect ME.

Your disrespect and EGO show no bounds.

The inhabitants of American Samoa are referred to as Samoans not Samoas (whatever that is).

PS ~ I would pay a small fortune to watch you go against Junior, even with his broken arm.

[Graymatter]

Oversight, riiiiiight. I tell ya her fingers smell like TUNA!!

[tioga]

Watch FOX, they have been airing this all day. A Republican Representative brought it up on the floor of the house, where the dems tried to shout him down. It is a very funny thing..you HAVE to see it. It's a must see. Maybe it's on the internet.

[Congressman Billybob]

I don't think this was an "oversight." Pelosi is trying to cover her corrupt tracks by pretending that this is an "oversight."

John / Billybob

[Ben Chad]

Chuckle

[agrace]

lol

[Ben Chad]

FUNNY!

[thinking]

The question I have is: how much of this increase, will be reduced by income taxes, state and federal....

[DCPatriot]

An admission that minimum wage laws are counterproductive?

Evidence of Hillary Clinton's famous now bumpersticker quote:

They admit full well that a percentage of small business will suffer unless the cost is competitively passed on to the consumer.

They're no different than Goodfellas making their weekly rounds for premium protection.

[toldyou]

LOL!