[zendari]

Tough sh!t Fat Teddy.

Tell you what though: Let's give all those filibustered circuit judges up or down votes, giving them 6 extra votes to account for the swing in the Senate.

[metmom]

He could help by making a one time donation out of his personal fortune to all those who work for minimum wage. (Along with the rest of his liberal wealthy cronies who claim they are so worried about the *poor*)

Make it a gift to avoid the taxes and viola' problem solved. The people will have more expendable income that isn't going to be taxed than anything they would have gotten with that raise, companies won't have to cut back on the number of employees to stay in business, and they wouldn't have to raise prices to be able to afford to pay the new wage, thus eating up any benefit of the raise.

Instead, he wants to look like the hero by forcing everyone else to do it.

For his information, there are many places we know that are already paying more than minimum wage.

[STE=Q]

Teddy... you should have taken Dean Wormer's advice.

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life"

[Christian4Bush]

I heard this f-tard on Rush's show today...how absolutely damn funny was it to hear Fat Teddy whining about the Republicans doing the same thing that the Dims did when THEY were in the minority.

And I don't doubt for a momnent that the Donkeycrat party will go nucular (and of course, the ArseKissing media will call it honorable and principled, and BigByrd will wave his version of the Constitution around when he takes 2 hours to say five words about it).

[fat city]

Wow- he really is a persuasive speaker- he sold me on another vodka and tonic!

[Diego1618]

It is an economic fact.....whenever the minimum wage is increased, some folks earning the minimum wage get laid off. This I know because I am one of those evil employers who pay the minimum wage to some of my employees.....and when it no longer makes economic sense to employ some folks at minimum wage.....they go!

It will take a few more years and eventually I will see that I again can pay the minimum wage to a few folks to do a specific job....a job that is worth no more to me than what the minimum wage is right now. With inflation and normal cost of living price increases I will again be able to see an economic (to me) advantage in hiring a few more minimum wage employees. But for now....they're gone....cause it makes no economic sense (to me) to employ them at "that" rate to do "that" job. I'll do it myself!

There is indeed a law of diminishing returns, and you see it in action each time this socialistic tomfoolery is put in effect. This year the California minimum wage was increased to $7.50 an hour. I had some employees making $6.75 an hour. The value...(to me)....of their continued employment did not magically increase overnight (12/31 to 1/1) by $.75 an hour. So, they are no longer employed by me. They may be working somewhere else by now....but the jobs I offered at $6.75 an hour disappeared with the stupidity of the minimum wage increase. Yes, the idea of a "minimum wage" is stupid. There are many jobs I can imagine that would be worth much less than the "the Minimum". Three, for sure, that disappeared a few weeks ago.

Now, I know it doesn't sound like too much to a lot of folks.....but three people getting a $.75 increase in pay (for no increase in productivity) would have cost me (out of my pocket) 3 X .75 X 40 (hours per week) an additional $90.00 per week. 90 X 52 = an additional $4680.00 per year.

Those three jobs were not worth (to me) an additional $90.00 a week. All three employees were young, single people..... living at home. These jobs were discretionary on my part. Other employers have now had to increase prices to their customers to afford these same wage increases. Stupid!

By the way....I have other employees....that have skills and experience, and they make much more than minimum.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I wish he'd blow a gasket and keel over!!

[bray]

Some say the payoff to Mary Lou's Parents was minimum wage??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[billphx]

grin

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[ChessExpert]

Kennedy puts all the blame on recent delays in passing the minimum wage increase on Republicans. Surely it would have passed sooner if Nancy Pelosi hadn't tried to exempt American Samoa. The big companies there are tuna companies. They are headquartered in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. Talk about corruption! If anyone needs an increase in the minimum wage, it is the people of American Samoa. They have few employers, and can't exactly drive to the next state.

For the US generally, with its many employers and geographical mobility (we're not a small island), there is competition for labor. As a result, hiking the minimum wage merely chops off the bottom rung of the ladder of success. Studies have shown that those most affected are black, inner city teenagers, whose unemployment rate goes up.

[El Gato]

This increase in the minimum wage that he's proposing is almost 50% larger than the entire minimum wage was when I was paid minimum wage. (For about a month, even summer hires got a raise if they stuck with it for that long).

Then for two school years I made sub minimum wage working in the recreation area (bowling alley, pool, billards, etc) area of the Student Union. Moved on to computer operator for a warehouse/distribution company.

[ElayneJ]

I watched some of the funeral coverage yesterday and found it interesting that one of Teddy’s “endearing” habits was lambasting his colleagues on the Senate floor and then smiling and laughing with them afterward like nothing ever happened. I don’t think the people who told these stories even knew how off-putting they were. Was Ted totally insincere or did he think it was funny to be insulting and cruel?