I used to give socialists the benefit of the doubt and assume they were monumentally stupid. Over time I have realized that the overwhelming majority of leftists are simply evil. They know these policies will harm those they pretend they want to help, and they don’t care.
By harming the poor, Liberals make more people dependent on government and gain power over those people. Their lust for power is more important to them than the compassion normal people have for each other.
Creeps like this want to change America into the s&^% holes they came from.
Why?
They could have just STAYED HOME!
Does anybody ever mention the harm that raising the minimum wage does to those with min wage jobs? It takes away the incentive for these people to better themselves. It keeps tem stuck in mind-numbing boring jobs. Pay somebody $15 to sweep floors and it becomes a whole lot less urgent to take some classes or work a little harder to move on up.
Minimum wages and raiding minimum wages hurts the poor. Keeps them down.
The combination of massive ignorance with overwhelming arrogance pretty much defines liberal politicians. And the dumber and more ignorant they are the more convinced they are that their ideas are right. Look at every liberal politician in the country. They may appear to look different, but fundamentally they are all the same.
We really do need this to focus the debate. Let some Socialist Paradise city in the US hike the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Hell, let them hike it to $25 per hour. Now THAT’S a “living wage.” It will clear up all the BS from the debate.
Common sense (of which libs are sorely lacking) would show what an obvious job-killer hiking the minimum wage is. To wit:
I need my lawn mowed. It takes 3 hours to do it, and I provide the lawnmower and gasoline. I am willing to pay $30 to have it done. If it costs more than that, I’ll bite the bullet and do it myself.
Someone willing to work for $10/hour gets the job. If I have to pay $15, it ain’t gonna happen.
Based on the breakneck speed with which mainline Republicans (Rick Santorum, Tim Pawlenty) appear to be embracing her position, this looks to be the wave of the future.
Polling must say 80% of our LIV countrymen are all for it.
California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, one her party’s most progressive members, thinks her home state should increase its minimum wage to as much as $26 an hour.
Its not that she doesn’t know about economics.
Liberals know the ramifications of this type stuff.
They are simply doing this to garner votes... to look like they ‘care about the poor people’.
I mean, I have no formal economics training or schooling whatsoever and even I have enough common sense to see this idea is beyond ignernt.
Then again, they could really be that stupid.
We need to be careful with the predictions here.
The big minimum wage hike in Seattle (or San Francisco, or Manhattan) probably won’t have much of an effect on employment numbers THERE, and wrongly predicting that this will happen could deprive us of credibility when the battle is fought elsewhere.
Companies employing low skill labor in those places already face sky high costs and manage to make big profits anyway; costs of labor are quite low as a percentage of overall costs (rent, insurance, etc.), and higher costs can easily be passed on. Anybody who doesn’t need to be in the high cost area, already isn’t there — and they aren’t going to move for a few percentage point more in their costs.
EXTREMELY different story out in the rest of the country, but the rest of the country will pay the price if big cities are conceded to be the testing ground.
Has anyone seen Starbucks taking a position on this?