Posted on 01/28/2014 5:20:03 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
While President Barack Obama’s attempts to increase the nation’s minimum wage through legislation have stalled in Congress, the White House announced plans on Tuesday to use the president’s executive powers to partially address the problem.
Just hours before the President is scheduled to deliver his fifth State of the Union address, the White House revealed that Obama will issue an executive order to increase the minimum wage for new federal contract workers.....
. In a fact sheet announcing the action, the White House highlighted several occupations that will be helped by the move, including kitchen and laundry workers on military bases, as well as janitors at federal buildings and construction workers at government building sites.
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Not Federal employees. Federal contractors.
He can’t raise taxes on his own. He can’t raise the general minimum wage on his own.
He can raise the salary floor of federal contractors. Which is all this does. The impacts to the general public will be negligable. There may be some contractos that lose their jobs, and federal employees who gave to find options for lunch other than eating at a gvt cafeteria.
Boo frikknin hoo ...
Sorry for the mis-characterization.
No change in my post’s meaning however.
This is exactly the wrong thing to do right now. We are already spending money we do not have.
America needs to build up our supply of American jobs, for Americans.
Neither party is doing one single thing, to build up America’s jobs.
Bring back American jobs.
Now.
I wonder how well this will go over with the general public watching the speech. Thankfully, I will be working late tonite and won’t be watching. But I am not amused at finding this out.
I frankly don’t believe that there are ANY Federal Contractors making minimum wage.
D.C. is so danged expensive you likely can’t hire someone who can spell “cat” or add 2+1 for ten bucks an hour.
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