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And the economic bloodletting begins...
1 posted on 06/04/2007 12:45:53 PM PDT by bw17
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To: bw17

Sorry, forgot the source:
http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007/06/04/minimum-wage-bill-slammed-in-american-samoa?printview=1


2 posted on 06/04/2007 12:47:09 PM PDT by bw17
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To: bw17

Wasn’t this one of Pelosi’s wet kisses to campaign contributors?


3 posted on 06/04/2007 12:53:25 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: bw17

I recall reading here that the minimum wage increase was a moot point, because nobody works for the minimum wage.


4 posted on 06/04/2007 12:53:37 PM PDT by gas0linealley
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Send them some illegals, They will work off the books, not that I favor this hike in the first place, the law of un-intended consequences strikes again.
5 posted on 06/04/2007 12:54:25 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: bw17

I think it’s assinine to allow wages to be suppressed to just a couple dollars a day with millions of illegals flowing in to work under the table, and then parade around a minimum wage act that inherently can’t reach under the table.

But still... why pile insanity on top of insanity. If there’s going to be a minimum wage, it should apply to Samoa, where “Americans” get paid less than $1 a day.


6 posted on 06/04/2007 12:57:19 PM PDT by dangus (Mr. President, "Choke on it b!+ch" is not a very good campaign slogan for your amnesty.)
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To: bw17

A likely result will be that tuna processing will be moved to Thailand or even China leaving the Samoans without jobs at any wage.


7 posted on 06/04/2007 12:58:01 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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StarKisses, Nancy, I guess you didn’t get your way with that one.


11 posted on 06/04/2007 1:04:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Thompson in 2008 - there is no doubt about it! [GWB has jumped the duck])
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What is the USA doing with Samoa? Cut them loose.


19 posted on 06/04/2007 1:49:02 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: bw17

America’s offshore slave colonies (Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, USVI) only like something when it involves no taxes or free handouts.


22 posted on 06/04/2007 2:33:40 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Cruel is a matter of perspective." Cap'n Jack Sparrow)
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