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Regardless of the mandated minimum wage, business has moved on. The federal minimum wage is mostly meaningless, these days. Only 1.6% of our hourly workforce is actually making minimum wage. The free market has already mandated businesses to pay higher wages, without coercive government meddling. This whole hot-button topic is just a politically divisive ploy, to divide The People and drive low-information, single-issue voters to the polls. There are those who would have you believe that if the MW were abolished, evil businesses would begin paying their workers 3rd world wages. This is demonstrably untrue. If that were the case, then a large percentage of hourly workers would already be at the minimum, right now. Instead, it's 1.6%.... Imagine that. There are those who would have you believe that there are millions of hurting Americans who are desperately trying to support a family on a MW job. Also demonstrably untrue, just by looking at the BLS numbers. There are only about 1.3 million workers making the minimum, out of some 77 million total hourly workers. Of those, 705,000 are 16-24 years old, almost all of whom (697,000) are single. There are only 88,000 MW workers who are married and living with their spouse.  Economic rules state that if the price of a commodity, in this case labor, goes UP, then demand for that commodity goes DOWN. So, increasing the MW, will theoretically mean fewer available MW jobs. Higher labor costs will necessarily drive up COGS (cost of goods and services), which means inflation. Both of these hurt the 93 million unemployed and fixed-income Americans. However, as I stated above, MW workers are such a tiny piece of the big picture, none of this really matters, nor would its effect be really measurable, unless the increase was really large. |
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"Like with a cloth?"
Nice to see the dems only candidate thinks this is all a joke.
Won't harm her chances because integrity is a non-issue for them.
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Well seeing as his official platforms seems to be "pick up were my big bro left off." I'm not that surprised he is dead in the water.
I thought Obama already handled that task..quite well,even. |
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but look at all the new jobs that are being created building these machines...overseas...
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This is Trumps strong suit.Most Normal americans Loathe PC.
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because you don't value science
You go off your own religion instead
You can value science and still think crushing a defenseless unborn is wrong. You also don't need to be religious to grasp the same concept. Hitler did unimaginable things to humans in the name of science. Was he correct? |
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Just like regulating smog emissions did
Yeah, but I'm sure glad we did. I lived in LA when breathing its air was like smoking 2 paks of unfiltered Pall-Malls a day. Some of the middle class probably dropped into the low-income category because of the regulations, but at least they can breathe. |
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"If they come here to Louisiana, if they try to disrupt this funeral, we're going to lock them up," Jindal said. "We're going to arrest them. They shouldn't try that in Louisiana. We won't abide by that here. Let these families grieve. Let them celebrate their daughters, their children, their spouses, their loved ones' lives in peace. They better not try that nonsense here." Read More HereMy take - ah, the face of the right wing censorship comes full forward. Apparently, when tasteless, disgusting behavior is done by the likes of Pam Gellar towards Muslims it's perfectly protected free speech. But when a hateful group like Westboro does their thing, it's immoral. And let the right wing hypocrisy begin.
And for the record, I have no problem with either Geller or Westboro disgusting tactics because free speech is free speech is free speech ! Westboro Church announced several days ago that they would picket the funerals of those murdered by Russel Houser. Houser wrote that WBC was the only real church left in America. |
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The inmates are truly running the asylum.
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I would only condemn a cake baker to eternal torment for pineapple-pistachio, but anyone is free to make up this own particular "religious" taboos to fit his agenda, apparently.
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Bigotry has a strong following.
It can be a real money maker. I was never aware that there were any sects that had taboos about cake baking. |
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 Witnesses have told Mississippi state investigators that an unarmed black man died after being kept in a chokehold by a police officer for more than 20 minutes and denied CPR, according to his family’s attorneys, who said an autopsy confirmed he was fatally strangled. Read hereDid you notice that cops are too aggressive today?
Damn this is kept pretty quiet cause I live in Mississippi and this is the first I've heard of it. Hope it don't get swept under the rug.
Is this police brutality problem really not systemic? If the story is true, cop need to do life behind bars. |
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I do not believe 2015 will be the year Bitcoin 'goes mainstream'. Yes it will be talked about, more people will use, hold or trade it and more merchants will accept it. But we are far, far away from big scale adoption... Honestly, I do not think any 'common folk' will actually use this for at least another 3 years. Let's talk again in 2018-2020. If Bitcoin still exists (and I hope so, since I'm a longtime holder and believer) by then, it will be widely accepted and price will have risen also. But for 2015, I predict more or less the same path we've started in 2014. Up, down, left, right, adoption, repeat.
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