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HuffPo: Workers 'Really Deserve' a $21.72 Minimum Wage
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Posted on 02/15/2013 9:00:03 PM PST by chessplayer

According to a new study by the George Soros-funded Center for Economic Policy and Research, minimum wage should be $21.72 an hour to keep up with the increase of worker productivity.

Highlighting that study, The Huffington Post bemoaned President Barack Obama’s call for a higher minimum wage as a “far cry from what workers really deserve,” in a Feb. 13 blog post.


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Things aren't bad enough, now. The left really does want another Great Depression.
1 posted on 02/15/2013 9:00:11 PM PST by chessplayer
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Yes they do, look what they got from the last one. They almost brought socialism here then, they would probably be able to get a lot more next/this time.


2 posted on 02/15/2013 9:04:32 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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You’re right.
Why wait for a crisis to exploit when you can manufacture them.


3 posted on 02/15/2013 9:06:48 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Hey look we made another crisis, now you need to let us fix it while you pay for it.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 9:07:30 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Awesome, they should label it “The Chinese Employment Act”.


5 posted on 02/15/2013 9:09:25 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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I think 50 dollars an hour would be right. Watch their skin crawl when gas is 39 dollars a gallon and Mcnuggets are ramped up to 24 dollars.

Liberals are the dumbest folks ever, courtesy of our public education system.


6 posted on 02/15/2013 9:10:53 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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This is actually a tax hike on the poor

By raising the minimum wage to that amount many more people would pay income tax. However since the cost of goods woiuld simply inflate to cover the cost of the extra money in the system it would just mean that most people paid taxes.

It would also inflate away the value of the USD dollars held by governments out side the US


7 posted on 02/15/2013 9:11:06 PM PST by Fai Mao
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I was saying they should make it $100 an hour and everyone will be in the top tax bracket.

:p


8 posted on 02/15/2013 9:12:37 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Obama’s call for a higher minimum wage as a “far cry from what workers really deserve

I deserve to be a gazillionaire, alas, I'm still striving to be a hundredaire.

9 posted on 02/15/2013 9:12:51 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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Why not raise it to a minimum of a million dollars a year? That way we would all be millionaires and nobody would be poor!

< /occupynomics>

10 posted on 02/15/2013 9:14:15 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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The lover of lies.

Ariana refused to share the proceeds of the sale or offer any wage to her site creators.


11 posted on 02/15/2013 9:14:24 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve. Maybe next year after the big BBQÂ…)
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Huffington Post doesn’t plan to pay its bloggers.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13508_3-9785908-19.html


12 posted on 02/15/2013 9:17:01 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve. Maybe next year after the big BBQÂ…)
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To: eyedigress

I think 50 dollars an hour would be right. Watch their skin crawl when gas is 39 dollars a gallon and Mcnuggets are ramped up to 24 dollars.


But to solve that they would demand the govt. enforce price controls on businesses. Result? They couldn’t afford to stay in business and have to fire their employees and close their doors.


13 posted on 02/15/2013 9:17:14 PM PST by chessplayer
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Well, you understand it.


14 posted on 02/15/2013 9:20:01 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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“Ariana refused to share the proceeds of the sale or offer any wage to her site creators.”

I wonder how THAT sits with them. They probably think they are getting screwed over by Republicans/s;)


15 posted on 02/15/2013 9:25:08 PM PST by Frank_2001
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"HuffPo: Workers 'Really Deserve' a $21.72 Minimum Wage"


16 posted on 02/15/2013 9:26:06 PM PST by clearcarbon
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17 posted on 02/15/2013 9:33:06 PM PST by nralife
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too many get that or more for free, why would they bust their ass working for it? libtards.


18 posted on 02/15/2013 9:39:21 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: chessplayer

Good idea.

Forcing companies to pay that will mean no employer will hire illegal aliens.
It will put 11 million Americans back to work.


19 posted on 02/15/2013 9:48:41 PM PST by oldbill
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Why doesn’t little Georgie Soros the Pervert pitch in the difference for everyone making minimum wage? Little Rich Georgie has more money than anyone else on the planet.


20 posted on 02/15/2013 9:49:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Now Playing. Obama II - The Revenge of My Father.)
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