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Almost two years ago, I warned Nancy Pelosi what would happen if they jerked around with the minimum wage without adjusting other funding to account for it.  She’s a stubborn old bag and didn’t listen.  They promptly crammed it through Congress.
July 1, minimum wage went up 70 cents.  That’s about a 13% increase.
One month later, [...]

Tags: bush administration, business budget, college diploma, congress, corporations, harry reid, inflation, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, obama, socialist agenda, tax cut, unemployment

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Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs:
We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because wages [...]

Tags: communism, countrywide, ellison, employment, fannie-mae, freddie-mac, housing, indymac, inflation, keith, Minnesota, mortgages, socialism, unemployment, wages

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Now, I don’t believe that to be necessarily true, I just can’t find one I think is terribly smart.  Today’s example is Thom Hartmann.  In 2005, he tried convincing people that Jimmy Carter tried to prevent the Bush Energy Disasters - 28 years ago.  Now, the reason he states this is because Jimmy gave a [...]

Tags: 1979, 1980, acid rain, coal, deregulation, energy, gas, global warming, inflation, jimmy carter, liberal, Oil Policy, oil price, thom hartmann, truck strike, unemployment, windfall tax

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“We’ve been down this road before. It’s the road that George Bush has taken for the last eight years,” Obama said.
And:
“The Bush economy is like a trap door — Too many people are one pink slip away, one missed mortgage payment away, one medical diagnosis away from falling through and losing everything,” Clinton said Thursday [...]

Tags: 1979, barack obama, boogeyman, bush, change, congress, democrat, economic, economy, failed, hillary clinton, inflation, jimmy carter, john-mccain, liberal, lie, nancy pelosi, policy, recesson, republican

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