ZeroHedge takes a dim view of raising the minimum wage to $15 and thinks it'll make everyone poorer by causing unemployment and inflation. Socialists think it'll make more people richer by giving the poor a bigger slice of the fiscal pie. What do I think, you ask with bated breath.
That people should be paid a just wage in return for their work, especially the clergy. But why stop with a minimum wage and a progressive income tax. Why not empower the dictatorship of the proletariat Government, which is your Friend, to give everyone the same amount of money? That'd be fair, right?
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Come to think of it, why not abolish private property and build some reeducation camps for the kulaks, you know, all the ones you haven't shot yet.
And before you come up with the tired old lame excuse that there isn't enough money, remember, the State can print as much of that as it likes.
Cheers,
LSP
The minimum wage issue is a winner with Democrats, because most of their voters are getting paid that: the young and idealistic (but inexperienced), and the old and grouchy (who should have saved more for retirement but didn't).
ReplyDeleteIt's a loser for everybody, since a wage is simply the price of labor. When the price of anything goes up, the demand for it goes down, simple economics. In this instance, the minimum wage goes up, the demand for minimum wage workers goes down. That's not even arguable. But that doesn't diminish the enthusiasm on the part of the dummies who vote for Democrats.
Those dummies think that their employer will just eat this increase in their cost of doing business, and just open up his closet where he keeps his huge gobs of cash laying around, and pony up $15 an hour. Nothing he can do about it, right? It's the law, right? Wrong, there, dummo.
The employer has no mandate to keep your stupid, moronic butt employed, you blithering idiot. He'll fire either you or your buddy, and whoever is still on the payroll will be getting the raise, but doing TWICE the work....or more. And the other guy will be eating out of a dumpster, with no hope of ever getting another job, not at $15/hour.
That's the long and short of jacking up the minimum wage, Reverend.
I get this feeling, Fredd, that you're not a comsymp pinko... But I'm worried. All these Californians are fleeing their workers paradise for Texas. Will they destroy this state and turn it into a hotter version of San Francisco? Scary prospect.
ReplyDeleteIn the meanwhile, we gaze upon the brazen bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky. The Russians saw through that, apparently Sanders & Co haven't.
Not to worry, Reverend. It's true, Californians, New Yorkers, and Illinoians are fleeing in droves like rats off sinking ships (and those liberal ships will indeed sink, given time). But the pure numbers of the folks fleeing are not the pinkos - they are in large part the people that have been pulling the wagon in their pinko states, not the takers. The people in the wagon will stay where they are until they are forced to get out. Not their choice, BTW.
ReplyDeleteThe folks who are moving to Texas (such as me) are not bringing communism with us, we are fleeing it. We will be making your Red State even redder. And that's a good thing.
Not everybody loves Texas. Those California pinkos still love their weather, the beaches and the diversity, and will not move to dusty, hot, windy Texas, no way. Texas to them is hell on earth.
I think they're scared of Texas, I know several of my U.K. friends are. Maybe they should be, but I've always found Texans a pretty friendly crew.
ReplyDeleteI've had nothing but good exchanges with Texans myself, and I've lived there on and off for approx. 4 years. I can hardly wait until I can walk around in Kerr County, TX with a .357 Magnum on my hip and nobody even notices. Texans use that little caliber cap gun to nail varmints and beer cans. When a Texan wants to carry something on his hip, it's usually a .44 Magnum beast, and probably one on each hip.
ReplyDeleteI do that here in Illinois, and I am heading to The Big House for some hard time. I may as well be a crip or a blood.
I have a bust of Felix in my home. It used to rest in the Office of the Mayor, City of Las Vegas, NV. I received it as a gift with the sentiment that I earned it.
ReplyDeleteFredd, in Texas, BIG wheel guns are common currency, in Illinois? Not so much. But I'm disturbed to find out you've joined the crips, or the bloods. Surely there's a better way?
ReplyDeleteBTW: LL has brought a 460 Magnum and we'll shoot it tomorrow. They're illegal in England, but not in Hill County.
Good old Felix -- he gets everywhere! Cheka.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the peeps in the Sea-Tac area, who have already been bounced up to $15.00, are asking for fewer hours. At $15.00 per hour they lost all their welfare bennies.
ReplyDelete'The labourer is worthy of his a hire' is a text that is worth considering
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be a problem, Adrienne...
ReplyDeleteI think it is, Alan.
ReplyDeleteIt's been "Grapes of Wrath" in reverse for a while. I graduated in '90, and I recall my Junior chemistry teacher (who I thought was old then, but she's still feisty as ever!) said they should build a drawbridge at El Paso to keep out the folks moving here from Kali. The parents meant well, sparing their kids from the Crips vs Bloods lifestyle, but the darned kids wore it like a badge of honor and started that crap here!
ReplyDeleteLL taught me some good riot control drills, Mattexian. So we can't discount all immigration...
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