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Dems hope to force House vote on minimum wage hike
Associated Press ^
| Feb 13, 2014 7:11 PM EST
| Charles Babington
Posted on 02/13/2014 5:50:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
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posted on
02/13/2014 5:50:54 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Boehner has effectively given the gavel back to Pelosi.
He’s looking to cash in. Hence, amnesty.
To: Olog-hai
The filthy Dims are desperate for ANYTHING that will get them another vote....consequences be damned.
Power-mad commie fools.
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posted on
02/13/2014 5:56:31 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: Olog-hai; All
Here is an idea, Republicans introduce a minimum wage of $12.50, coupled with a DOUBLE TAX CREDIT for small businesses AND a complete repeal of Obamacare.
Workers support it the higher minimum wage, employers would support the tax credit (better than a tax deduction), and the American people would support the repeal of Obamacare.
Suck it, Pelosi.
To: Olog-hai
The purpose of the minimum wage is to enable the big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex to eliminate competition from small businesses.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:01:17 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
To: Olog-hai
The commie ‘RATS are thinking ahead and working for all the foreign nationals they are about to give amnesty to. The former illegal aliens are going to just love the ‘RAT party to death.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:01:35 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(As government expands, liberty contracts. - President Ronald W. Reagan)
To: SoFloFreeper
Makes sense to me. I’d dangle payroll and income tax cuts out there too.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:01:48 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I have come to believe the hike is to induce general wage inflation to pay for Obamacare
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:02:32 PM PST
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: Olog-hai
Alinsky tactics will be in full monty by the DemonRATs. The only thing raising the minimum wage benefits are the union hierarchy. Everyone else will have their wage increase gobbled up by inflation and lost jobs through automation.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:04:14 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
To: bert
Something like 3% of workers earn minimum wage, and most of those jobs will be eliminated with an increase in the minimum wage.
That's the other purpose of the minimum wage... to ensure that people whose labor isn't worth minimum wage can't find jobs.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:05:37 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:06:46 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
To: Olog-hai
The pubbies ought to just advocate for $50 and hour...!!
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:07:41 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Olog-hai
Not gonna happen, Demostupids.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:08:54 PM PST
by
JSDude1
(Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
To: Olog-hai
Why not force all our bosses to give us all a raise?
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:12:25 PM PST
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
To: Olog-hai; All
With the exception of the federal entities listed in the Constitution’s Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate a vote-winning national minimum wage, such power uniquely under control of the individual states where intrastate labor is concerned.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:26:10 PM PST
by
RedMDer
(Happy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
To: Olog-hai
You know, as much as I abhor the "race" card, maybe this is a case in which the GOP should play it! They could say something like:
"Democrats, who claim to care about the poor and minorities, prove over and over again that what they really want to do is to hold them down.
You know who this law helps? It is NOT the poor, who are disproportionately minorities. This law helps the unemployed suburban kids whose affluent parents sent them to college in hopes that the money they spent would lead to their kids getting good jobs. Several years ago, the answer might have been "yes they can", but not that we're in the Obama economy, they realize it's "no they can't".
So of course these limousine liberals want to raise the minimum wage now. They're hoping to get their unemployed live-at-home college educted brats out of the house, even if it means that they go work for decent money at a place like Walmart.
They know this means less jobs for the poor, and less jobs for many minorities. They know that when you increase the minimum wage, then employers will start getting many more applications from those who have led a life of privilege, and that those who come from families who have already won life's lottery will be the ones who are most likely hired.
And they don't care. They don't care that they are hurting the poor, and hurting minorities. They just want to get these unemployed lazy brats out of their affluent suburban homes, so that they can throw a cocktail party without being embarrassed when their guests see they laying around on the couch and playing video games".
To: All
I’d be the first to stand up and cast a vote against this foolishness.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:43:28 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: SoFloFreeper
After they are done with limp boner all that will be left is the 12.50 min wage. cept he will have cried and felt bad and it’ll be 22.50...
bad idea.
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posted on
02/13/2014 6:52:17 PM PST
by
cableguymn
(It's time for a second political party.)
To: Olog-hai
The enemies of America don’t need to spend billions of dollars updating their militaries anymore. All they have to do is sit back and watch as we implode all over ourselves as we spend ourselves into oblivion and allow our elitist governing class to take control over our lives and destroy our freedoms. It’s been only 25 years since the Berlin Wall came down and we won the Cold War? Really? We are becoming the very same socialist utopian state we spent decades trying to defeat. I guess what goes around comes around and payback is a b***h. Thank you lefty Democrats and wimpy Republicans for ruining the greatest nation on earth. The enemies of freedom give you both an enormous thank you very much.
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posted on
02/13/2014 7:42:30 PM PST
by
dowcaet
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