Schumer, Gillibrand push for $9.80 federal minimum wage

Associated Press ^ | July 29, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

ALBANY -- New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand support an increase to the federal minimum wage, while a similar proposal is stalled in Albany.

The Democrats support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $9.80 an hour. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25.

[cripplecreek]

Hell why not make it $100 an hour so we can all be rich? /s

[coloradan]

Why not just make it $50/hr? Then everyone would be pulling down a cool $100 grand a year each, and everyone would be solidly middle class. Poverty would be eliminated in the stroke of a pen!

[King_Corey]

I see your hundred and raise you a billion gazillion cagillion!

[nascarnation]

$100/hour sounds good.

Of course in the era of Baraqqi/Bernanke/Geithner minibucks, a hamburger will cost $100.

[wolfpat]

So, they don’t think that anyone who can’t produce at least $9.80 worth of goods and services has a right to a job.

[cripplecreek]

I’ll have to load up my truck with a trillion dollars so I can buy a loaf of bread.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Instant job loss. Employers will do with eight employees when they really needed 12.

[EEGator]

[BillyBonebrake]

Getting re-elected on the backs of those they’re pretending to help ...

[upchuck]

Bump. I’ve read articles in the past documenting how low wage jobs are lost when the minimum is raised.

[elkfersupper]

There is no Constitutional authorization for these people to be monkeying around with this.

[cripplecreek]

[Irish Eyes]

Get rid of them...their stupidity grows greater everyday.

Timing people, timing.

[blackdog]

Once again, for the hundredth time, the only real reason to increase the minimum wage is that all government employees contracts (union) are tied to a baseline above minimum wage. ie, a postal worker is paid a base wage of X above minimum wage as their contracts are negotiated. So an incease of minimum wage is an immediate raise for every government worker.

Got any questions?

[popdonnelly]

Did you ever notice how everything the Democrats do raises the costs to businesses?

[nascarnation]

If you go to Wash DC, at least the section near the WH and Capitol, all the working peeps are guys in $1000 dollar suits and women in $400 dresses and skirts.

So it’s very easy to understand they’d have little concept of what minimum wage help even looks like or can accomplish.

[hitkicker]

No doubt they’ll say that “we” want to give workers a raise. How very easy it must be to spend other people’s money.

[BobL]

Interesting that they couldn’t find any takers in Albany - so they try to dump this crap on the entire country.

Good luck!!!

[EEGator]

If Obama’s son had $17...