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30-01-07, 02:57 PM | #21 |
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You did quote Harry Reid you know, and he pretty much said he couldn't give two shits about increasing the minimum wage. He'd rather pass a non-binding anti-war resolution, one which will give the front runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination a chance to go on record. theknife's amateur, uninformed diagnosis of my mental pathology not withstanding, I was simply probing the Dems' motives. I mean, they know they can't stop the surge or even postpone it, they can't change the president's strategy, they can't even alter public opinion. So the pending resolution is a purely political move, and the timing is likely not a coincidence. They're playing a long game and the prize is a Democrat, any Democrat, in the White House two years from today, and nothing matters more to them. I'm sure they'd prefer to give Bush the opportunity to veto their minimum wage bill so they can play it against the Republican party, but they have bigger fish to fry.
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AHH – so the agenda of the 110th's Congress first hundred hours; an issue of utmost importance for the health, safety and welfare of the American public…drum roll please!!!!! Wait for it………..The minimum wage!!!!!! Now anyone who votes against it must hate poor people and want their children to starve to death. Right? That is the spin is it not?? Politics are involved so one must not think logically about this, each state should have the same min wage, from Los Angeles, CA to Fargo, ND and on to the East coast. Cost of living is the same –no?… shouldn’t people in Fargo make the same as in New York?
In Canada, which is a socialist country, the government loves this idea and every time they raise the wage the un-employment rate goes up. The un-employment rate in the USA is around 4.5%, very good, in Canada it is about 7%. You raise the cost of during business owners will lay people off. What other choice do they have? Move to a smaller house, sell one of the cars, stop going on vacation or just get rid of someone. Our company at one time would hire students over the summer to do odd jobs. We no longer do this. You cannot raise the price of goods to compensate because that brings the demand down. Laying people off is the best option. People don’t get into business to lose money. So the unemployment rate is 4.5% which really means everyone who wants to work is, plus the overall economies are doing great, maybe best ever, so thank you Congress for taking up an issue which may actually end up hurting America, not help it.
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30-01-07, 04:02 PM | #23 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/us...=1&oref=slogin
Democrats say no congressional pay raises unless the minimum wage raise passes. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the second-ranking Republican says: "the raises are crucial for members of Congress who are not independently wealthy and must operate two households on the current $165,200 salary." It's just so hard to live on $165k per year. Maybe that's why so many congressmen / women are so skinny? They are starving. |
30-01-07, 04:29 PM | #24 |
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If you ask me, congressmen should have their salaries capped at $75,000 a year. Thus if they wanted to earn more money congress would have to shorten the durations of its sessions while its members worked real jobs, delivering pizzas and painting houses. They could all benefit from a little more humility, and the rest of us would benefit from a congress that spends what little time it has focusing only on the most important issues.
Of course for that to happen congress would first have to provide funding to geneticists attempting to grow functional wings on laboratory pigs. |
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31-01-07, 11:11 AM | #26 |
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So after 30 hours a vote will be held. It might pass, it might not. If it does it goes back to the House to be delayed again and again. Man, things move fast in D.C. don't they?
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