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Seattle Socialist Party Wants $20 Per Hour Minimum Wage, Offers $13 Per Hour For Website Manager
The Daily Caller ^ | 10/17/14 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/17/2014 10:46:30 AM PDT by Enlightened1

A socialist party that wants to raise the federal minimum wage to $20 per hour is currently advertising a job for an experienced web developer paying $13 per

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 20; hour; minimumwage; seattle; socialist; washington
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Do what we say... but not what WE do.
1 posted on 10/17/2014 10:46:30 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

NO equal pay for equal ignorance.


2 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:05 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: Enlightened1

And they probably don’t even see the irony of their actions. Sad.


3 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:08 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: Enlightened1
Do what we say... but not what WE do. Exactly like the mulato and equal pay for women BS.
4 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:18 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Enlightened1

Wimps! I propose $50.


5 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:39 AM PDT by MNDude
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So much for leading by example


6 posted on 10/17/2014 10:49:50 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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“And they probably don’t even see the irony of their actions. Sad.”

I agree. What a bunch of hypocrites.

7 posted on 10/17/2014 10:50:19 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Enlightened1

Washington another state on my “never again” list.


8 posted on 10/17/2014 10:54:44 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Enlightened1
This shot was taken at the recent rally in Seattle.

Sadly -- or not -- the rally was held at a local beach below the high tide line. Despite Algore's efforts to halt the process, the tide did come in, decimating the Demoncrat population in that city. Oh, the horror!

 photo RALLYFOROBAMAwTEXT_zpsb4b6043d.jpg

9 posted on 10/17/2014 10:55:06 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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So what will experienced people who already make $15 to $20 per hour make?


10 posted on 10/17/2014 10:57:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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This is perfect. Can’t make this up.


11 posted on 10/17/2014 11:03:48 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.p)
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To: Dick Bachert

That could just as easily be a picture of the Gope in action.


12 posted on 10/17/2014 11:06:35 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.p)
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To: knittnmom

I WOULD, just for the entertainment value, like to hear their justification for it...

It would be fun to apply for the job and demand $20 per hour.


13 posted on 10/17/2014 11:08:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Do t forget, that’s is a maximum threshold of earnings while still collecting go t handouts. I doubt you will see it raised past that. You could work a few hours a week and still get govt money. Pay raise!


14 posted on 10/17/2014 11:09:12 AM PDT by bike800
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To: cripplecreek

That’s been my question to those who support the $15-$20 an hour minimum wage. If a company employs a skilled worker making $20 an hour, he won’t be happy when the unskilled worker is making the same pay.


15 posted on 10/17/2014 11:12:11 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Enlightened1; All
Concerning the $20 minimum wage being pushed by Seattle Socialist Party, this is the first time that I’ve seen the issue in the context of federal minimum wage.

The major constitutional problem with federal minimum wage is the following. With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution’s Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to establish a national minimum wage.

The only reason a federal minimum wage exists, imo, is because corrupt, Constitution-ignoring federal politicians have been successfully exploiting the idea of higher and higher national minumum wage in order to win votes from low-information voters, voters who don’t know about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any more than the people that elect to office do.

So what the misguided Seattle Socialist Party needs to do if they really want a higher federal minimum wage is the following. They need to work with both state and federal lawmakers to propose a minimum wage amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify the proposed amendment then Congress will have the specific power that it needs to establish and regulate a national minimum wage and the Seattle Socialist Party will be a hero.

17 posted on 10/17/2014 11:22:28 AM PDT by Amendment10
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Absolutely right.
Which is why we’d better get down into the gears and wheels of the GOP at the lowly precinct levels and TAKE OVER THAT ORGANIZATION. If we leave it to the same self-serving and venal idiots who brought us here, America as we have known it IS OVER!!


18 posted on 10/17/2014 11:26:44 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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“So what will experienced people who already make $15 to $20 per hour make?”

$15 to $20 per hour. Those making $25 and above will be placed re-education camps, or shot.


19 posted on 10/17/2014 11:38:45 AM PDT by duffee (Dump the Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party, joe nosef.)
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To: MNDude

I’ll see your $50 and make it $100. You capitalist exploiter of the toiling masses. How can a person live on only $100,000 a year? (snicker)


20 posted on 10/17/2014 11:43:10 AM PDT by driftless2
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