Rand Paul, asked whether there should be a minimum wage: “I’m not sure I have an answer.”

[JRLeft]

These people are awful!

[daleanime]

1. Kick....

[Thinkingabout]

2. The questions are going to get harder, better check in with bis dad for the answer.

[Cha]

3. 'Cause he's fucking stupid.

[Kablooie]

4. Well, that's definitive.

[democratisphere]

5. Paul is a misinformed, fence walking, non-committal, propaganda pushing, lying teabag

[elleng]

6. DUHHH???!!!!

[TDale313]

7. Which translated from Rand Speak means...

No, I don't think there should be, but I'll get my ass handed to me if I admit that in public.

[rgbecker]

8. Rand Paul is walking a tightrope now that people are actually paying attention to him.

The loss of Christie as a serious candidate has brought on the press and poor Paul is finding out how weird his ideas actually are.

[Rex]

9. Well, personally, I don't think Rand Paul is qualified to be able to answer that question.

He is a clown in office.

[Jamaal510]

10. That's actually the best answer

he could've given. If he said "yes", then it would've pissed off the RW high-rollers and the low-income idiots who make up the rest of their base. If he said "no", then he would've went against an idea that a majority of Americans want (including a large chunk of R's).

[Barack_America]

11. Bullshit. He's against it.

He's just too chickenshit to admit it.

[okaawhatever]

12. Put your big boy pants on and man the f$$k up. You know you oppose minimum wage, admit it. nt

[struggle4progress]

13. He makes $174K annually plus benefits; current minimum wage is $7.25/hr

Ignoring the benefits, he'd have to work 24K hours at minimum wage to earn what he earns: that's 12 years fulltime

How hard does he actually work? Well, the Senate was only in session 152 days in 2013

Let's be both optimistic and generous, assume he actually works 10 hour days when the Senate's in session, and figure he deserves 3X minimum wage: he might deserve about $33K/year

[JRLeft]

16. The corporate elite are anti minimum wage increase.

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[struggle4progress]

17. Of course.

[JRLeft]

18. Didn't take long for one of them to confirm.

CEO tells Daily Show ‘mentally retarded’ could work for $2: ‘You’re worth what you’re worth’
People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy, Schiff claimed.

“It’s socialism that creates, you know, scarcity, that creates famine,” he said. “In a free market, there’s plenty of food for everybody – especially the poor.”


Schiff argued that eliminating the minimum wage law would allow more people entry to the workforce, and Bee asked him to identify someone whose work might be worth just $2 an hour.

“You know someone that might be? Maybe someone who is – what’s the politically correct word, you know, for mentally retarded,” Schiff said. “I believe in the principles this country was founded on.”

“I’m not going to say that we’re all created equal,” he said. “You’re worth what you’re worth.”

MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/29/ceo-tells-daily-show-mentally-retarded-could-work-for-2-youre-worth-what-youre-worth/

[fujiyama]

14. It's incredible.

The GOP is actively trying to create a vacuum to suck up every last bit of wealth the bottom has left.

It's like they want to roll back every bit of progress since the guilded age. I wouldn't put it past him to say he's cool with repealing child labor laws as well.

Just change the national motto to "In The Oligarchs we trust".

[Art_from_Ark]

15. I can just hear him now: "It's unethical to rely on government handouts

when your kids could be bringing home an extra income!"

[randome]

22. 'Actively' nothing. They're simply clueless as MissMillie points out below.

Don't ascribe to them more power than they really have. Rand Paul epitomizes today's GOP. Clueless and delusional, not super-villains.
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[TheMathieu]

19. I thought he agreed with daddy.

That we should repeal minimum wage and pay people in gold coins and chickens.

[JRLeft]

21. In the past hs said $2.32 an hr was feasible.

[MissMillie]

20. Clueless

[jsr]

23. He never opposed a minimum reimbursement for ophthalmologists

by Medicare, which made him rich. Or a minimum reimbursement for obstetricians, which made his father rich.

[Aristus]

24. Translation: "I have constituents who work for minimum wage, and I want them to keep voting for me."

[kwolf68]

25. I bet he has an answer

if asked should there be a maximum wage

[pansypoo53219]

26. i want a goddamned maximum wage.