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Dear Jane Fonda: Minimum Wages Destroy Jobs
Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2017 | Larry Elder

Posted on 05/11/2017 6:24:55 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/11/2017 6:24:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
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We just had an appliance repair done at our home and in conversation the service tech told us that his son who didn’t go to college was in an air craft fab training program learning carbon composite applications and was let go last month because of minimum wage increases in Washington State.


2 posted on 05/11/2017 6:28:46 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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3 posted on 05/11/2017 6:35:39 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Dearest jane fonda: You remain a traitor.


4 posted on 05/11/2017 6:42:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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“I’m sure you mean well. “

Surely the writer jests! This female cretin/Commie has never meant well for the whole of her all too long, miserable life. If George Carlin were alive today, he might well add her to his “List of People Who Need to be Killed!”


5 posted on 05/11/2017 6:44:12 AM PDT by vette6387
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Aircraft technicians don’t make minimum wage.


6 posted on 05/11/2017 6:49:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Another globalist cheap labor hack who want open borders, amnesty and a never ending supply of 3rd stoop labor telling us about the evils of the minimum wage.


7 posted on 05/11/2017 6:51:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I suggest that Jane go to Syria and sit on a rebel anti-aircraft gun just before the Russians bomb and see how well she helps the Syrian rebels. Or better yet, go to Pakistan and help the Christians there protect themselves from the Muslims. Perhaps she can martyr herself for a good cause.


8 posted on 05/11/2017 6:51:31 AM PDT by Purdue77 (I can't afford a tag line.)
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Hanoi Jane has hated America for 79 years. I suspect she knows that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs and that she celebrates that result. First, she would rather have thugs on welfare so they have time to riot. Second, she wants our country as weak as possible, so we can move toward her dream of totalitarian communism, just like her heroes in Vietnam did.


9 posted on 05/11/2017 6:56:51 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Dear Jane Fonda: Minimum Wages Destroy TEEN’S FIRST Jobs THAT FOLKS LIKE YOU PRETEND TO CARE FOR.


10 posted on 05/11/2017 7:02:14 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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I'm sure you mean well.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

11 posted on 05/11/2017 7:02:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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The real minimum wage is zero, as many unskilled, low skilled or beginning workers learn when they are let go because it makes no business sense to employ them. Doesn’t bother the leftists, though; they want them on the government dole so they’ll vote RAT and keep them in power.


12 posted on 05/11/2017 7:08:15 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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The real minimum wage is zero, as many unskilled, low skilled or beginning workers learn when they are let go because it makes no business sense to employ them. Doesn’t bother the leftists, though; they want them on the government dole so they’ll vote RAT and keep them in power.


13 posted on 05/11/2017 7:08:15 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Aircraft technicians don’t make minimum wage.

The son in question was a trainee.

14 posted on 05/11/2017 7:10:34 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Minimum wage didn’t destroy teen jobs in the 50s,60s and 70s.


15 posted on 05/11/2017 7:11:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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If a trainee is laid off becasue minimum wage is raised then it really wasn’t a good field to get into then, was it?


16 posted on 05/11/2017 7:12:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Minimum wage didn’t destroy teen jobs in the 50s,60s and 70s.

Does now and will more with automation coming.

17 posted on 05/11/2017 7:17:32 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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Hanoi Jane, you shall forever be hated.


18 posted on 05/11/2017 7:22:24 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker (President Trump - Making America Great Again!)
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Minimum wage does not destroy jobs. It shifts labor around. Tell me if a business that employs a lot of low wage low skilled workers decides "well that's it I'm closing down" then what happens to that businesses customers? Where do they go? Does the work not get done? Do their customers go back to cleaning their own houses, cars, and mow their own lawns?

What people should be saying is raising minimum wage causes inflation. That is a legitimate argument to make.

19 posted on 05/11/2017 7:25:05 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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If a trainee is laid off becasue minimum wage is raised then it really wasn’t a good field to get into then, was it?

Depends. The typical future earnings and availability of work in the field after completing training, apprenticeship, etc. are the key consideration. Work cheap until you increase your value to the employer to the point where you don't HAVE TO work cheap.

20 posted on 05/11/2017 7:36:05 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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