Obama's remarks on minimum wage and wealth imbalance strike voters' nerves, stir hopes

Yahoo News ^ | 28 January 2014 | Tim Skillern

[gooblah]

“Listening to the State of the Union, I can't help but feel invigorated,” Jason W. Schaver, a Fulton, Ill., resident said.

[Maceman]

Oh goody! More hope. Personally, I’m hoping for a bug change come this November.

[MrB]

Progressives lie and scheme because they believe their goals are so noble that they can do so with the approval of their own conscience.

[P-Marlowe]

Listening to the State of the Union, I can't help but feel invigorated,” Jason W. Schaver, a Fulton, Ill., resident said.

Correction:

Listening to the State of the Union, I can't help but feel invigorated,” Jason W. Schaver, a Fulton, Ill

[MrB]

Ah... this is the first I’ve heard that he said that.
It’s a homosexual reference.
Project 10 was an effort by the left to “jam” the idea that 10% of the population was homosexual.

I even had a lib relative try to jam that into a conversation as a complete non-sequitur to the topic at hand.

[bert]

Yes, mosquitoes will be gone. The replacements will be no-seeums.

[EBH]

Except they worship at the feet of government to execute their “noble” goals and clear their own guilty consciences.

I have no problem with folks who have noble goals but they can keep their own guilty consciences and gods to themselves.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[tbpiper]

Absolutely correct, MrB

[MrB]

Right... I have no problem with communists as long as they don’t require me to participate.

Be “communist” over there. Thanks.

[ilovesarah2012]

Yeah, imagine that. The “media” is just a big joke these days.

[TomGuy]

Meghan Kelly had an interesting guest in the after-speech commentary. The guest was a GWBush speechwriter, Mike ___.

He said many of the Obama comments sounded familiar, so he went back, dug up a 2007 (IIRC) GWB SOTU, and found numerous chucks almost identical. He implied that Obama’s speechwriter(s) seemed to have plagiarized his GWB SOTU. He even read some portions for comparison.

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Plagiarizing GWBush. With Obama we don’t expect much more any more. Some of the after-commentaries, such as Luntz’s group, indicated the speech was only more of the same empty rhetoric. One startling item was the failure of trust — some 60%+ just do not trust Obama any more.

[BenLurkin]

[TomGuy]

Yeah—everyone gets a $10 raise, that will make them feel better. Except when the cost of everything goes up $11.

Have these idiots ever taken an economics course?

One commentator, IIRC Mark Levin, said the 'income inequality' mantra was not such much to help the minimum wage employee, but to benefit unions who salary rates are keyed to the minimum wage rate. If the minimum wage goes up, so does union wages.

[verga]

I am having a hard time getting my head around the thought that anyone and I do mean anyone can take anything this clown says seriously.?

And many of them did it twice.

[verga]

I found it repulsive that Barry once again exploited the military to pimp his increase in the minimum wage for his union thug pals. "Who cook our troops food and wash their dishes"? What the heck is the moron talking about? What's with the Ten Dollars and ten cents anyway?

at least Boehner had the guts to come out and say that it would not affect a single current contract.

[TomGuy]

What's with the Ten Dollars and ten cents anyway?

Not sure about the Ten dollars, but the ten cents is probably the dime that raising the debt ceiling would not cost taxpayers.

Obama has used the 'doesn't cost the taxpayers a single dime' mantra several times since 2007. Ironically, the results of most of those occasions turned out to be more lies.

[Buckeye McFrog]

From what I gathered from the comments section, it seems like more people are seeing what a charlatan and economic dope Oblamer is.

I'll believe it when minimum wage hikes stop winning at the ballot box.

[Buckeye McFrog]

at least Boehner had the guts to come out and say that it would not affect a single current contract.

Ever meet a government contractor who was not earning at least three times the going rate for the same job in the private sector? Me neither.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The replacements will be no-seeums. el sancudo (Navajo word) ;D

[grania]

What's wrong with US workers getting a living wage, as long as the money goes to US citizens? I could see a period of six months to a year at a lower wage before the higher minimum kicks in. But we all gain if workers don't need federal benefits, have money to spend, and pay taxes.

If the 'pubs are on the side of constitutional conservatives, they'll support this as long as it's connected to US jobs going to US citizens. If they're with the Chamber of Commerce and the globalist puppet masters, they'll be on the side of immigration "reform" and forever low wages.