The GOP's Minimum Wage Nuttiness....by Jim Hightower

[red dog 1]

Jim Hightower
July 30, 2014


Anyone who works full time, ought not live in poverty, period.
Raising the minimum wage above the poverty level, is not a question of economics
(even though it would be a big plus for our economy), but a question of morality.
Who are we as a people, a nation - especially in the richest nation in the world - if we dishonor the work ethic with a wholly-unethical wage floor?
It's disgraceful, which is why three out of four Americans support raising the floor, including a majority of Republicans.

Yet, the wage stays stuck at the unconscionable level of $ 7.25 an hour because Republican leaders are stuck on the low-wage dogma dictated by corporate elites.

At a forum in April, GOP Congress critter Dennis Ross of Tampa was confronted by a fast-food worker who asked him to support a minimum wage hike.
"Who's going to pay for it?" snapped Ross, who's paid $174,000 a year by us taxpayers.
A person in the audience rose to say he'd gladly pay a little more for a hamburger so workers could be paid a decent wage - a comment that prompted applause from the crowd.
Yet Ross railed against the very idea of a minimum wage.
"If the government's going to tell me how much I can get paid...then we have a serious problem in this country."

Yes, we do have a serious problem, and it's name is Dennis Ross.
Or, let's call it Lamar Alexander
The Republican Senator from Tennessee said of the minimum wage, "I do not believe in it."
Indeed, he "believes' in the immorality of letting executive-suite kleptocrats set sub-sub-sub-sub-poverty pay scales to impoverish America's workforce.
Or, how about John Boehner, the GOP Speaker of the House, he's gone operatic on the issue,
declaring that he would "commit suicide before I vote to raise the minimum wage."

These guys aren't just out of touch -- they're nuts!

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Insanity is the new norm, the insane media is encouraging it every day, catering to the stupid is

more profitable than catering to the rational.

[gwheezie]

2. This is a scam that works out well for the corporations

Sure, why not, pay people low enough that they have to get tax payer assistance in food stamps, rent subsidy, childcare etc and then take your corporate tax loophole to avoid paying taxes, throw in welfare to work, corporations run the country, they rigged it so they win and the rest of us try to scrape by, they pit the not quite broke against the dead broke and sit back and let the barely making it foot the bill.

[Sunlei]

3. Boehner needs to be retired for medical reasons.

Or, how about John Boehner, the GOP Speaker of the House, he's gone operatic on the issue,
declaring that he would "commit suicide before I vote to raise the minimum wage."

[red dog 1]

4. Boehner needs to be retired....period!

[Cresent City Kid]

5. If the cost to companies is such a problem

why can't we lower the maximum wage? They respond with the "best and brightest" argument, but at the point where the CEO is making several hundred times the salary as the lowest paid worker, they're not that friggin' best or bright, just fortunate.