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Can't you just feel the recovery?

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty, but at a cost of as many as 500,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[link to www.freep.com]

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No worries, we'll just raise taxes on the Millionaires and Billionaires. They have been doing EXCEPTIONALLY well lately.

Don't cry for your wealthy Master kid, he'll be O.K..
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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
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Can't you just feel the recovery?

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty, but at a cost of as many as 500,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[link to www.freep.com]

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 Quoting: Dr. Ben Schillen


White House has a response to the 500,000 who will lose

their jobs.

White House: Since the population of the USA is 320 Million,

that 500,000 is just a small percentage.

Translation: Fuck the 500,000. We do not give a shit.

Have a nice day!
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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
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No worries, we'll just raise taxes on the Millionaires and Billionaires. They have been doing EXCEPTIONALLY well lately.

Don't cry for your wealthy Master kid, he'll be O.K..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35378161


Why should ''millionaires and billionaires'' (note the use of quotes) have to pay more so your lazy ass can fuck off?

My wife and I worked hard to get we are. We worked hard, and continue to work hard, so our daughter can have a better life than we did. The liberal 'millionaire' bullshit needs to stop too. Making just over $250k/year does not make one filthy rich and fair game to tax to death.
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Can't you just feel the recovery?

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty, but at a cost of as many as 500,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[link to www.freep.com]

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 Quoting: Dr. Ben Schillen


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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
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"That minimum wage"?

Who decides what a fair minimum wage is, and why are they qualified to make that decision?
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Milton Friedman on the Minimum Wage

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No surprise here, everything right on schedule according to plan, this is part of his "Transformation of America". More end up of the dole who will vote for more of the "hand outs" and private corporations are demonized yet again. FOOLS!!!
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I worked hard to raised my children. I came across a great opportunity in a career I was good at. Then I choose to take care of my ill mother for 13 years, that was hard work and saved taxpayers a lot in taxes . My opportunity was cut short, I made very good money bc when opportunity came along so did other responsibility. I worked hard at what ever I did all my life. Many of us work hard

I did not end up with much but more than some but you won't hear we blah blah blah, I worked so hard, I worked so hard,I worked so hard.... shove it you people who were blessed with the opportunity to work hard, that is a blessing not a curse.


oh no... oh no... I had to work hard, you sniveling baby, you were blessed, pass it on.
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Like what's her name said if he were a white president he would have been impeached during his first term of total failure.
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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
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Where did you learn that crap from--Karl Marx?
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Australia min wage is 16.88 hr.
Any excuse why we in the USA can't meet or beat that is a load of tripe.
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Can't you just feel the recovery?

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty, but at a cost of as many as 500,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[link to www.freep.com]

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 Quoting: Dr. Ben Schillen


...and the hits keep coming, but as long as there are golf courses for him and ski slopes for the wookie, why would BO care?
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I hope that the douche bags that voted him into office, wanted all this Hope and Change he is giving the US. He delevered.
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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
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"That minimum wage"?

Who decides what a fair minimum wage is, and why are they qualified to make that decision?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 50333591


Unions were supposed to decide but because of right to work for less laws being passed in all the red states (kinda like old times) it looks like it's Obama's decision now.
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I don't believe that at all. It's just employers bitching because they don't want to pay a living wage. Nope, they would rather pay squat wages and then have the government pick up the slack through SNAP programs and income tax credits. I don't respect employers who want to pull that stunt because it's not the taxpayer's job to pay for your employee.
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OK you guys...his plan is to have the majority of the population dependent on the govt. Begging for scraps and voting for their meager existence.
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Good. If an employer can't afford to pay that minimum wage they were exploiting their workers and should have been bankrupt a long time ago.
 Quoting: krosty


Where did you learn that crap from--Karl Marx?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48412925


the employer pays minimum wage... but when the employer has no work for workers to do, What happens then???the govberment can't hire all you knuckleheads..

Have heard over in China, they have these sorts cutting grass by hand with scissors.. guess that's something...
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I don't believe that at all. It's just employers bitching because they don't want to pay a living wage. Nope, they would rather pay squat wages and then have the government pick up the slack through SNAP programs and income tax credits. I don't respect employers who want to pull that stunt because it's not the taxpayer's job to pay for your employee.
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Ignore the CBO at your own peril.

Secular Progressives are ignorant when faced with

capitalism.
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OK you guys...his plan is to have the majority of the population dependent on the govt. Begging for scraps and voting for their meager existence.
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Speaker Boehner blasted Obama.

"We are suppose to grow the number of jobs, not destroy jobs!"
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Remember their goal is to destroy the economy. Only the idiots actually think they are trying to fix things.
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Australia min wage is 16.88 hr.
Any excuse why we in the USA can't meet or beat that is a load of tripe.
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OK you guys...his plan is to have the majority of the population dependent on the govt. Begging for scraps and voting for their meager existence.
 Quoting: Founders Fan


Speaker Boehner blasted Obama.

"We are suppose to grow the number of jobs, not destroy jobs!"
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Why don't both just try getting out of the way of private business???
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Can't you just feel the recovery?

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's call to raise the federal minimum wage could help lift 900,000 workers out of poverty, but at a cost of as many as 500,000 jobs, according to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

[link to www.freep.com]

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 Quoting: Dr. Ben Schillen


Well Dr. Ben, that is more or less par for the course. Many of things they are doing there in the "District of Corruption" are hurting the average worker not helping them.

What many people are unaware of is; there is a gradual movement on the part of businesses to automate menial tasks using robotics.

Why pay someone to make a hamburger when a robot can do the job.

I predict in the near future we will see fast food stores with virtually no employees. We are headed in that direction right now.
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I don't believe that at all. It's just employers bitching because they don't want to pay a living wage. Nope, they would rather pay squat wages and then have the government pick up the slack through SNAP programs and income tax credits. I don't respect employers who want to pull that stunt because it's not the taxpayer's job to pay for your employee.
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clappa

OK you guys...his plan is to have the majority of the population dependent on the govt. Begging for scraps and voting for their meager existence.
 Quoting: Founders Fan

hesright

Increased dependency on government = more government power and control.
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No worries, we'll just raise taxes on the Millionaires and Billionaires. They have been doing EXCEPTIONALLY well lately.

Don't cry for your wealthy Master kid, he'll be O.K..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35378161


Why should ''millionaires and billionaires'' (note the use of quotes) have to pay more so your lazy ass can fuck off?

My wife and I worked hard to get we are. We worked hard, and continue to work hard, so our daughter can have a better life than we did. The liberal 'millionaire' bullshit needs to stop too. Making just over $250k/year does not make one filthy rich and fair game to tax to death.
 Quoting: Dr. Ben Schillen


We worked hard to get where we are, too. But that is independent of the millions of people who are also working hard and making minimum wage (and sometimes below). It certainly doesn't mean that my hard work should be rewarded while theirs isn't. I don't think the $250K sob story is going to fly, either. Anyone making that much money annually should be taxed heartily. If you can't make it on that salary - even with higher taxes - you are too dumb to live (and you talk about the poor with such contempt).

The millionaires and billionaires have bought politicians and fixed the tax system to their wishes for so many years. You really don't see it, do you? Why should a rich man make millions on his stock appreciation and have to pay just a few percent taxes on that while a soldier or secretary has to pay a much higher rate on their salaries - and they have nothing left over to buy stocks? The system is rigged for the wealthy.

The fact of the matter is that there are many more low-paying jobs than high-paying jobs and somebody (lots of somebodies) are going to get screwed while the few bask in their selfishness and wealth. Evidence is very clear that people tend to stay within their social class. Just because my kids were born to upper middle class parents and will themselves be upper middle class doesn't mean they worked any harder than some poor kid who had to get a job at the grocery store and forgo college in order to help his mom pay the family bills.
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Australia min wage is 16.88 hr.
Any excuse why we in the USA can't meet or beat that is a load of tripe.
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"When the price of something goes up, people buy less. So when the price of labor goes up, employers hire less."

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