You are forgetting...........sm
Posted By: m on 2009-03-01
In Reply to: Posible new "boon" to the economy? Higher minimum wages??.....PSM - Cyndiee
that when a new minimum wage law goes into effect, it only raises the wages of those who receive minimum wage, which in turn raises the basic cost of food, both at McDonald's as the illustration below describes and at the grocery store because minimum wage workers have to be paid more to plant, tend and harvest crops; prepare meals at restaurants, etc. Those minimum wage earners, in turn, will have to spend more at the grocery store to purchase groceries. A minimum wage increase would also, in order to have any real impact for low-wage earners, have to be substantial and not just a 50-cent/hour raise, which would then impact the buying power of the next eschelon of workers. In short, while it might sound like a good idea in concept, the logistics don't bear out the benefits in the long run.
With that said, don't ask me what my solution would be because I really have no idea.
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What everyone is forgetting here is s/m
that congressman is from Georgia and is a Republican, and he is trying the usual dirty tactics that were employed by McCain et. AL to scare people into voting for Chambliss here in Georgia in the December runoff, because Jim Martin (the dem) has the support of Barack Obama, and these desperate Republicans will stop at nothing to win one more precious Senate seat!!
No, we are not forgetting 9/11.
We are also not forgetting that George W. Bush was given a number of specific warnings about the probability of such an attack and did absolutely nothing to prevent it. Shame on him, and shame on you for saying President Obama has done nothing to protect us from our enemies when he has only been in office for a little over a month. George W. Bush has made the entire world a more dangerous place to live, and he will go down in history as being one of the worst presidents the United States of America has ever had.
Are you people forgetting 911?
Are you people all forgetting 911 and what our country went through and how unprepared we were to have terrorism on our own soil??? Bush at least stepped up to the plate and made Americans feel safe-all Americans, both dems and pubs as I recall his rating being very high after 911. Bush did not create this deficit alone-Congress controls the money and the democrafts controlled the Congress for the last 2 years, and at least he protected us from our enemies, which is more than I can say for our current President. How soon we forget the people that were killed here in our own country; decent, hardworking Americans. Shame on you.
Surplus-Are we forgetting 9-11
Are you all forgetting that 9 months after being elected we were attacked on our own soil, with thousands of people losing their lives and NY City a disaster? What do you think that did to the surplus and the need to protect our country. How short your memory is until the next time it happens and they you will be begging for a stronger president than we have now.
I think what you're forgetting is that...(sm)
if anyone were allowed to go beyond a second term, then they would still have to be elected. I think this could be a good thing. If you have a president who's doing a great job, why not let him keep going if the public is happy with him? If he isn't doing a good job, then the vote will take him/her out anyway -- thus killing the concept of a king {rolling eyes}. I also think it's a double standard for senators to be able to run consecutively like that (as well as lifers, i.e. supreme court--which I don't agree with at all), but not the president.
forgetting your religion? yeah, right
Your forgetting B. Franks, J. Kerry, N. Pelosi and
all the others in the senate who voted for it. You should listen to that youtube economic expert talking in the post Economics I can understand. He was right on.
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