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Obama calls for raising minimum wage to $9 an hour
Associated Press ^ | Feb 12, 2013 9:19 PM EST | Jim Kuhnhenn

Posted on 02/12/2013 9:07:11 PM PST by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama wants an increase in the minimum hourly wage from the current $7.25 to $9 by the end of 2015. Obama also proposes the minimum wage be required to keep pace with inflation. …

The proposal, which Obama made during his State of the Union address Tuesday, is sure to draw opposition from business groups and congressional Republicans who say higher rates increase costs and reduce employment. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: antibusiness; antimanufacturing; liberalagenda; minimumwage; obama
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Hmm. San Francisco raised its minimum wage to $10.29/hour and it damaged employment and business in general.
1 posted on 02/12/2013 9:07:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That will do wonders for the employment situation.


2 posted on 02/12/2013 9:10:36 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Olog-hai

He knows it will never pass.
All it was about is showing that he cares for the little guy (while he is busy actually enslaving him).


3 posted on 02/12/2013 9:12:08 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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This will bring us a lot closer to $5.00 a gallon gasoline and the $10.00 Happy Meal — not to mention more expensive motel rooms. Businesses that employ minimum wage workers will either shut down, or jack up their prices. Generally that means retail stores, gas stations, motels and restaurants.


4 posted on 02/12/2013 9:16:32 PM PST by Bryan
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To: Olog-hai

Why not $25/hr or more? Wouldn’t it be great to have a president who has actually worked a real job in the real world?


5 posted on 02/12/2013 9:17:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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Mark my words. The stock market will drop significantly tomorrow not only for this minimum wage advocacy but for the SOTU overall. Not since FDR has there been a president more at war with business than Zero.
6 posted on 02/12/2013 9:17:30 PM PST by re_nortex
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Jumping the min wage to $9 per hr would be inflation on steroids


7 posted on 02/12/2013 9:19:57 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Olog-hai

If $9/hour minimum is good, then $50/hour would be great! Right?


8 posted on 02/12/2013 9:21:04 PM PST by PGR88
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Why $9.00 an hour. If your into this minimum wage thing and you think it really matters go for $20.00 an hour.


9 posted on 02/12/2013 9:21:32 PM PST by Wiggins
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Oh hell, just make it $38 an hour and make it equal to welfare payments and all the other crap.

No wait, that is tax free stuff. Never mind. They won’t work for $38 an hour if you give ‘em welfare better make it $45... that’ll fix it.


10 posted on 02/12/2013 9:23:09 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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” Not since FDR has there been a president more at war with business than Zero. “
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Obozo’s attitude is that we don’t need no stinkin private biznes...Communisim do be da peoples biznes.
Marxist/Leninist life for all, with an onion in every pot.


11 posted on 02/12/2013 9:25:08 PM PST by AlexW
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“President Barack Obama wants an increase in the minimum hourly wage from the current $7.25 to $9 by the end of 2015. Obama also proposes the minimum wage be required to keep pace with inflation.”

This is the same federal government that has fraudulently manipulated CPI reporting to conclude there is no inflation, when in fact inflation is presently running at more than 10% per annum.

For discussion of how the federal government manipulates the CPI reporting see

http://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-inflation-measurement

http://www.shadowstats.com/


12 posted on 02/12/2013 9:28:13 PM PST by kaehurowing
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This is insane.


13 posted on 02/12/2013 9:30:42 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Make the mimimum wage $100 per hour and overtime after 5 hours a day.


14 posted on 02/12/2013 9:32:51 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: re_nortex

The stock market bears little relation to business. Large institutional traders are not necessarily on our side. Many large business are on the dole and get favors from government to limit their competition.


15 posted on 02/12/2013 9:32:59 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a president who has actually worked a real job in the real world?

Wouldn't it be great if we had a president who wasn't a communist fool and servant of the devil?

16 posted on 02/12/2013 9:35:23 PM PST by Bullish (This usurper is leaving one hell of a poop stain on our Constitution)
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To: Olog-hai

Still not done putting Americans out of work.


17 posted on 02/12/2013 9:35:52 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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I would love, love, LOVE for the GOP in the house to pass a $100/hour minimum wage bill. Then when the Senate and President oppose it, just run on that:


The Republicans wanted to give you a $100/hour minimum wage, but the Democrats said “No!”. The Democrats say they are for the working poor, but when the bill came to them, they turned you down.


Make the Democrats try to explain to the “low information voters” (i.e. stupid people) why they voted it down.


18 posted on 02/12/2013 9:37:24 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com)
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and all the happy little union elves dance their jig.

because they will demand raises if the lowest skilled workers get an increase.


19 posted on 02/12/2013 9:37:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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“President Barack Obama once to Federally bar low skilled workers who cannot yet produce more than nine dollars an hour worth of labor from any employment whatsoever.”


20 posted on 02/12/2013 9:38:04 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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