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Ted Kennedy goes berserk over mininum wage
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Posted on 01/26/2007 7:15:31 PM PST by zendari

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To: KarlInOhio

Hey recycle him as gasoline additive. We could save several tons of corn by just squeezing his liver.


61 posted on 01/26/2007 8:27:16 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Always use fresh macaroni.... If the box rattles,.... throw it away."--- Kent Brockman)
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To: StormEye
There seems to be a few Democrats that are ready for "retirement." Byrd, Kennedy, Tim Johnson, Patrick Leahy, "Dingy Harry" to mention a few.

Don't forget the two glittering jewels of Methuselah from Hawaii, both Dims (A-caca and In-No Way)

62 posted on 01/26/2007 8:27:47 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Too bad these leftist advocates for abortion didn't practice what they preach on themselves.)
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To: metmom

Better than a ping list. At YouTube, simply click to subscribe to my videos and they send an email when a new one is posted. :)


63 posted on 01/26/2007 8:29:03 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: devolve; george76

Lol, Jabba and Jabber! Good morph george!


64 posted on 01/26/2007 8:29:39 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: AmericanMade1776

"Most working families in this country are not on minimum wage... Kennedy must be in the Scotch again"


If a "working family" is making minninum wage, chances are they aren't paying one cent in taxes. They get EITC which can erase any income tax, social security and their health insurance deductions for the year. This family is a myth though. The family I described is a real family(not married couple, with kids). They are making well over minninum wage, have health care in group coverage and are "earning" well over half again their wages on the taxpayers back. I don't know of any employer in my town paying minninum wage. School kids are getting $8 an hour at the fast food joints part time. How can this SOB be so passionate about something so meaningless?


65 posted on 01/26/2007 8:35:08 PM PST by Figment
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To: zendari

It is an economic fact.....whenever the minimum wage is increased, some folks earning the minimum wage get laid off. This I know because I am one of those evil employers who pay the minimum wage to some of my employees.....and when it no longer makes economic sense to employ some folks at minimum wage.....they go!

It will take a few more years and eventually I will see that I again can pay the minimum wage to a few folks to do a specific job....a job that is worth no more to me than what the minimum wage is right now. With inflation and normal cost of living price increases I will again be able to see an economic (to me) advantage in hiring a few more minimum wage employees. But for now....they're gone....cause it makes no economic sense (to me) to employ them at "that" rate to do "that" job. I'll do it myself!

There is indeed a law of diminishing returns, and you see it in action each time this socialistic tomfoolery is put in effect. This year the California minimum wage was increased to $7.50 an hour. I had some employees making $6.75 an hour. The value...(to me)....of their continued employment did not magically increase overnight (12/31 to 1/1) by $.75 an hour. So, they are no longer employed by me. They may be working somewhere else by now....but the jobs I offered at $6.75 an hour disappeared with the stupidity of the minimum wage increase. Yes, the idea of a "minimum wage" is stupid. There are many jobs I can imagine that would be worth much less than the "the Minimum". Three, for sure, that disappeared a few weeks ago.

Now, I know it doesn't sound like too much to a lot of folks.....but three people getting a $.75 increase in pay (for no increase in productivity) would have cost me (out of my pocket) 3 X .75 X 40 (hours per week) an additional $90.00 per week. 90 X 52 = an additional $4680.00 per year.

Those three jobs were not worth (to me) an additional $90.00 a week. All three employees were young, single people..... living at home. These jobs were discretionary on my part. Other employers have now had to increase prices to their customers to afford these same wage increases. Stupid!

By the way....I have other employees....that have skills and experience, and they make much more than minimum.


66 posted on 01/26/2007 8:36:08 PM PST by Diego1618
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To: Figment

How can this SOB be so passionate about something so meaningless?

Image.


67 posted on 01/26/2007 8:36:31 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: potlatch


"Rollin' On The River....."

-- Tina Turner


68 posted on 01/26/2007 8:43:39 PM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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To: potlatch

I 'borrowed' the morph...

I like the "Jabba and Jabber" too.


69 posted on 01/26/2007 8:45:32 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: devolve

I said
Rollin'
Rollin'
Rollin' on the river

Cleaned up a lot of plates in Memphis sounds about right!
At least the 'cleaned up a lot of plates' is, lol.


70 posted on 01/26/2007 8:47:12 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: SevenofNine; Tamar1973

71 posted on 01/26/2007 8:47:56 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: devolve; george76

I borrow a lot of things myself. Only put my name on my own creations.


72 posted on 01/26/2007 8:48:53 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: monkapotamus

ROFL OMG wait till Tamar see this she going LMAO


73 posted on 01/26/2007 8:51:00 PM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: zendari

I wish he'd blow a gasket and keel over!!


74 posted on 01/26/2007 8:53:04 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
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To: Diego1618
But for now....they're gone....cause it makes no economic sense (to me) to employ them at "that" rate to do "that" job. I'll do it myself!

I appreciate your honesty, some here think that minimum wage workers don't exist. If there was no minimum wage, what would you expect to pay for those jobs?
75 posted on 01/26/2007 9:00:23 PM PST by gas0linealley
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To: msnimje

I am not ashamed to say I've been waiting for that for a very long time.He's top of my list of"let's have a party to celebrate a prick's funeral" names.


76 posted on 01/26/2007 9:47:50 PM PST by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: zendari

Some say the payoff to Mary Lou's Parents was minimum wage??

Pray for W and Our Troops


77 posted on 01/26/2007 9:51:53 PM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I think the only working families on minimum wage are in American Samoa.


78 posted on 01/26/2007 9:54:30 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Ted Kennedy has never had a working job, he has been nothing but a fat drunken air bag all his life.

You are wrong. He was not always fat.


79 posted on 01/26/2007 10:12:41 PM PST by hdstmf
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To: AmericanMade1776

Illegal alien families more than likely are.


80 posted on 01/26/2007 10:16:42 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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