Posted on 06/01/2006 6:57:19 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The Senate on Thursday joined the Assembly in approving legislation that would give 1.4 million minimum wage earners a $1-an-hour raise and then boost their pay annually to keep up with inflation.
But the Senate bill, along with its Assembly counterpart, seems to be headed for a veto by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who supports the $1 increase but opposes automatically tying future increases to inflation.
Both measures would raise the minimum wage from $6.75 to $7.75 an hour in two 50-cent steps - the first on July 1, 2007 and the second on July 1, 2008. They would then require the wage to be raised each Jan. 1 to keep up with inflation.
The Assembly passed its bill, a measure by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Santa Clara, Wednesday night, sending it to the Senate. The Senate measure, by Sen. Gil Cedillo, moves to the Assembly.
The Republican governor, who vetoed two previous minimum wage increases, has asked a long-dormant state commission to approve the $1 increase but not the annual cost-of-living adjustments when it meets Friday.
"I cannot support something that has failed with our government," Schwarzenegger said. "Those automatic spending formulas have been terrible for our state, and why would we take something that almost bankrupt the state and say, now we're going to punish the private sector and we're going to have them do it too? It's a failed system, it doesn't work."
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Welcome to the Frustrated Voters Club of New England!
pay em $20.00 an hour ,i wouldn't do it /s
A law that granted a minimum wage of, say, $50/hr would be interesting, if they limited to those who were here illegally.
Not to mention this one -- where the Dems keep putting the bill to give drivers licenses to illegals on the ballot, and Arnold keeps vetoing it, while his Dems opponents are on record, that they would sign it.
"Senators on Thursday sent the Assembly a total of 43 bills, beating a Friday deadline for the measures to pass their house of origin. Among the bills now heading to the Assembly are:
_ A measure that that would let the state issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger has vetoed two earlier versions of the bill.
Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, said the measure - his latest attempt in eight years to allow illegal immigrants to drive with licenses - is needed as the deadline approaches for California to comply with new federal regulations for identification documents adopted after the 2001 terrorist attacks. But the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, that would have brought California into compliance without letting illegal immigrants drive."
Do you think we should blame McClintock, because the Dem Legislature voted down his amendment, or we should blame the Dems? When Arnold can't get things through the leftists Legislature, you always blame Arnold, instead of the Dems, which is where the blame belongs.
"Among the bills now heading to the Assembly are:
_ A measure that that would let the state issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. Schwarzenegger has vetoed two earlier versions of the bill.
Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, said the measure - his latest attempt in eight years to allow illegal immigrants to drive with licenses - is needed as the deadline approaches for California to comply with new federal regulations for identification documents adopted after the 2001 terrorist attacks. But the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, that would have brought California into compliance without letting illegal immigrants drive."
FO,, it's not the stuff he didn't get thru, it's some of the stuff that did get thru that he did sign that he shouldn't have..
After he gets re-elected, he is beholden to no one and can and likely will try to do as Maria&team says. Come back and crow some more about his accomplishments after he gets his version of a minimum wage hike, more bond debt, and no cuts anywhere, nowhere to be found. Yup, come back and crow...
We all know the legislature is low-rent, their ratings reflect that and have for some time., We or some of us expected better from the latest Gub , sadly, he isn't all he's cracked up to be by the likes of you. BUt as they say, He's the best we can hope for at this time. (Puke....)
Nonsense. There is a simple solution. It is called veto and educating the populous instead of cowtowing to the left.
I, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will veto any legislation proposing to increase the minimum wage. As a lifetime student of Economics, and follower of Milton Friedman, I fully understand the destructive results of the minimum wage concept to jobs, small business, and the economy.
As Tom McClintock, my partner on the November ballot once wrote:
THE MOST important thing for any poor person trying to improve his or her condition is, of course, a job. It is the entry-level job that accords impoverished workers — even those with no skills, no references and no employment record — the invaluable opportunity to succeed and to prosper. It is literally the first rung up the ladder of success.Ooops... there I go dreaming again. Arnold is the one pushing to increase the Minimum Wage, along with his Abel lapdog, Sen. Maldonado.If that is true, then the most vicious governmental policy would be one that eliminates entry-level jobs, making it harder for the poor to get a foothold in life. Yet that is precisely what the state of California is preparing to do. Legislation is now moving through the Legislature that would in effect declare that anyone whose labor is worth less than $7.75 an hour will be denied entry-level employment.
The proposal is couched in the soothing and smarmy rhetoric of leftist populism.
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I don't know that I've ever criticized Schwarzenegger for not getting something through the legislature. That's not his job. I have criticized him for Proposing excessive spending and for not having vetoed bills which clearly is his job and within his authority.
Someone should find out whether it exempts unions?? A lot of cities and states are doing that to increase unionized companies and Democrat voters
"A law that granted a minimum wage of, say, $50/hr would be interesting, if they limited to those who were here illegally."
Heck, I'm still trying to find where that high paying lettuce picking job McCain was talking about is.
Nice try. Show us an example of someone here criticizing the governor over GOOD legislation that he backed that failed. I don't believe you can name ANY three bills that the governor has backed regardless.
You sit here day in and day out throwing out broad impressions (no pun intended) from your imagination of how you think conservative Republicans behave. Like the MSM, you are usually wrong, but keep spouting it anyway.
Criticism of our liberal governor most often comes over his unilateral actions and gubernatorial powers that the Democrats have no say over, such as appointments of very liberal Democrats to positions of power, political stupidity in last year's special election, and twisting REPUBLICAN arms to introduce BAD BILLS like Maldonado's minimum wage bill. THAT's the kind of thing we criticize him over.
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