Twenty States Will Raise Their Minimum Wage on January 1st

Minimum wage is for retards and day treatment patients at state hospitals to clean up Kool Aid spills and Graham Cracker crumbs. Its not for people supporting themselves.
 
roll your eyes all you want to

What is this gibberish supposed to mean?:rolleyes:

Welfare posing as sound economics.


What is this gibberish supposed to mean?

To me it sounds like you just want to kick the poor while they are down.

Would you work for seven bucks an hour?

Why do you think that others should?
 
I think it is because we have grown up in a system that longs for the past plantation days, when blacks were slaves and whites ran everything.

It was never like that.

The south was really closer to Ireland than to the fairy tale world the southerner likes to remember. With a rich plutocracy and a everybody else a hired hand or a slave.

After the end of slavery, the vast numbers of unemployed blacks kept the southern men from the benefits of unions. A common saying from the sixties was, "Do your job with vim and vigor, or you'll be replaced with a big black niggar".

Today the fear of the black man's political power is driving the frightened southern voters to vote against their own best interest. They are totally incapable of understanding that they are all 'niggars' to the wealthy.

Florida is different only because of the number of yankees that retire down here.

I love the southern people, they are a hard working and long suffering people but they have problems that they seem to be unable to deal with.

I hope some day they are able to rise above their racist views and join with the black southerners to make a better life for all.

As long as they listen to the veiled racism of the republican right they have little hope of improvement.


WTF?:confused:

Whatever drugs you use some type of LSD I guess... pass it around!
 
I see that the racist Vettebigot is still clinging to the fiction that "raising teh minimum wage costs jobs".

:rolleyes:
 
religion is the hardest drug there is

WTF?:confused:

Whatever drugs you use some type of LSD I guess... pass it around!

And you seem to have OD'ed on it.

I was just trying to explain why the old confederacy was so solidly against giving their people a living wage.

What part are you having trouble understanding?

You know us potheads are as eager to turn other people on, as you church folks are to give your literature. If you are ever in the neighborhood give me a call and I will share a fatty with you and we can bullshit about religion.


BTW what does your handle FGB stand for?

I am just guessing but could it be Following God Blindly?
 
desperate people willing to work for next to nothing, competing against each other.

Its a republican wet dream.

There were no Republicans before 1856, he was an orphan from 1783 to 1801 in a slave state.
 
This from Milton Friedman, America's greatest economic intellect:


"The fact is, the programs labeled as being “for the poor,” or “for the needy,” [by politicians like President Obama] almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have.

Let me give you a very simple example – take the minimum wage law. Its well-meaning sponsors [like President Obama]– there are always in these cases two groups of sponsors – there are the well-meaning sponsors and there are the special interests, who are using the well-meaning sponsors as front men. You almost always when you have bad programs have an unholy coalition of the do-gooders on the one hand, and the special interest on the other. The minimum wage law is as clear a case as you could want. The special interests are of course the trade unions – the monopolistic trade craft unions. The do-gooders believe that by passing a law saying that nobody shall get less than $9 per hour (adjusted for today) or whatever the minimum wage is, you are helping poor people who need the money. You are doing nothing of the kind. What you are doing is to assure, that people whose skills, are not sufficient to justify that kind of a wage will be unemployed.

The minimum wage law is most properly described as a law saying that employers must discriminate against people who have low skills. That’s what the law says. The law says that here’s a man who has a skill that would justify a wage of $5 or $6 per hour (adjusted for today), but you may not employ him, it’s illegal, because if you employ him you must pay him $9 per hour. So what’s the result? To employ him at $9 per hour is to engage in charity. There’s nothing wrong with charity. But most employers are not in the position to engage in that kind of charity. Thus, the consequences of minimum wage laws have been almost wholly bad. We have increased unemployment and increased poverty.

Moreover, the effects have been concentrated on the groups that the do-gooders would most like to help. The people who have been hurt most by the minimum wage laws are the blacks. I have often said that the most anti-black law on the books of this land is the minimum wage law.

There is absolutely no positive objective achieved by the minimum wage law. Its real purpose is to reduce competition for the trade unions and make it easier for them to maintain the higher wages of their privileged members."

I don't buy your myths that companies don't know what they're doing.

You're asking us to believe that,

1. Companies knowingly hire people who don't have the skills that the job requires.
2. Companies pay people to not work.
 
I don't buy your myths that companies don't know what they're doing.

You're asking us to believe that,

1. Companies knowingly hire people who don't have the skills that the job requires.
2. Companies pay people to not work.

They aren't his myths. Pay attention.
 
Black and teenage unemployment are at historic highs, numb nuts.

You think it just started, though, don't you? Like it's brand new? Been going on for ages, guy.

These things could be lessened, if your side gave a damn.

Don't pretend like you even give a fuck, because you don't. Until it threatens to cut into your own feedbag, you and everyone like you never will give a fuck. So quit using black people as ciphers for your indifference.
 
YEah, but a lot of that is a problem with our society and unrelated to the minimum wage.
 
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