Posted on 03/25/2014 3:15:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I have 17 million reasons for wanting to increase the minimum wage. Yes, 17 million—the number of children whose lives would be a little more secure if their moms and dads earned at least $10.10 an hour.
When I was in junior high, my daddy had a heart attack. He was home for a while, the medical bills piled up, and we lost our family station wagon.
So my mother did what she had to do: She went to work answering the phones at Sears. The job paid only minimum wage, but it was enough to make sure we could keep our home.
No one should work full time and live in poverty. --snip--
When I think about the minimum wage, I think about my mom and what she did for us. And then I think about the 17 million kids whose moms or dads could do more for their families, if they just had a fighting chance. /barf
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She’s stupid, she’s plain, and she’s a walking cliche. She’s everything I’ve come to expect from an up-and-coming female Dem politician.
BWHAHAHAHAHA! How true
Pfft! Why ask for a minimum wage? The Progressives should be demanding a Basic Income Guarantee (B.I.G.)*! No one earns under or over $50,000. If you earn more, you have to give it over to the Government for the common good, of course.
* On Switzerland Generation Basic Income Referendum —“If unemployment goes up, that’s a great thing,” says Daniel Straub, the coordinator of the referendum effort and author of The Liberation of Switzerland. “Because we should see unemployment as freeing people up to pursue what creates meaning for them.” Adds Enno Schmidt, a painter and documentary film producer who’s campaigned for the idea since 2006: “It’s not societally very efficient if people are forced to do something that they don’t really want to do.”
To these lefty SEUI useful idiots,Someone who owns a business and makes a profit is somehow greedy, yet these same folks who demand a piece of the profit, without fully understanding what a PROFIT actually does for a company(expansion, marketing, etc), are NEVER called envious or covetous...
Ahh, yesss. Good ol’ Lizzie “Dances With Moonbats” Warren. The last original, coherent idea she had was when she crapped her first diaper. Sheesh.
She’s the fail safe for Hillary.
Earlier this year I noticed a whole bunch of comments online promoting her as a candidate for POTUS. When I asked the obvious question - what has she done to qualify - well of course I got no answers.
Just bizarre.
What about the moms and dads whose wage will drop to zero because of your minimum wage?
The labor union pass-around whore speaks!!!
How about instead a 85% tax on all government wages above 30k in the name of fairness...for the children.
the number of children whose lives would be a little more secure if their moms and dads earned at least $10.10 an hourWhy not make them a lot more secure at $20.20 an hour? /s
“No one should work full time and live in poverty.”
...for heavily modified definitions of poverty.
One of my friends just cannot understand the definition Americans use for poverty. He lived with his mother, a couple of Aunts, his cousins, in his grandfathers house, with the goats on the other side of the room to keep them from being eaten by the leopards. He never had shoes until he was 12. From his view, he wasn’t in poverty...he had goats, a family, and access to the river. He went to the local Catholic school in the mornings, where he learned to read and write in his native language and English.
There shouldn’t be a minimum wage, ever!
So what Sen. Warren needs to do if she wants Congress to have the constitutional authority to regulate a national minimum wage is the following. Sen. Warren must uphold her oath to protect and defend the Constitution by leading Congress to propose a minimum wage amendement to the Constituiton to the states for ratification as required by the Constitution's Article V. And if the states choose to ratify Sen. Warren's amendment, then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to address intrastate labor wages and Sen. Warren will be a hero.
Otherwise, all that corrupt federal lawmakers are doing concerning dangling the higher federal minimum wage carrot in citizens' faces is the following. They are wrongly taking advantage of low-information voters, citizens who have never been taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, by winning their votes with constitutionally indefensible promises of so-called higher federal minimum wage.
” You’d tell us you’re related to Jacques Cousteau if you thought flounders could vote.”
Cousteau was a con man!
I used to dive with him in the 60s and 70s and he was the biggest poacher at Catalina!
Dumber than a rock.
* On Switzerland Generation Basic Income Referendum —“If unemployment goes up, that’s a great thing,” says Daniel Straub, the coordinator of the referendum effort and author of The Liberation of Switzerland. “Because we should see unemployment as freeing people up to pursue what creates meaning for them.” Adds Enno Schmidt, a painter and documentary film producer who’s campaigned for the idea since 2006: “It’s not societally very efficient if people are forced to do something that they don’t really want to do.”
I want to be able to eat and live indoors...so I want to do that which enables me to do so...so I do something someone else wants and is willing to give me some resources if I do it for them. I am free to not do it, I just don’t get the resources if I’m not helpful or useful.
Yes, they not only should, but must if it is merely and totally the result of indolence, indifference, irresponsibility and a sense of total entitlement.
On the other hand, Lizzie, no one should live in poverty, as a result of confiscatory policies, robbing a significant percentage of his wages income from a real job, in order to support people who have never held a job, who have never allowed themselves to be educated, and who live at a higher standard of living than those who have worked decades, eschewing instant gratification, investing years in education and training, and managing their lives such as to responsibly avoid large families they are incapable of supporting.
If there are rational counterargument to my expectations in this regard, Lizzie, I am open to hearing them.
I need to add the obvious : Charity imposed on free people under penalty of law, ceases to be charity. Some call it institutional "legal" theft by another name.
“Yes, 17 million—the number of children...”
There it is....its for the chiiiiiildren.
I thought the last minimum wage raise did all this? Gosh, I guess liberals are too stupid to understand that raising the minimum wage raises inflation and contributes to unemployment.
As I have often stated, “Socialism is greed.”
Socialists can bleed the wealth out of this country for quite a few years, as they have been doing so for a long time. But, eventually, the burden on productive citizens can not be born. Just how long that can continue is the only uncertainty. I would like some estimates grounded in real numbers. How long?
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