Posts Tagged ‘minimum-wage’
I had this to say a while back: Fair warning here folks, the next couple of years will suck if you’re an independent business owner That was in reference to Ted Kennedy wanting to raise the minumum wage because Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Washington. He got what he wanted. Unemployment increased more [...]
Tags: bailout, kennedy, minimum-wage, obama, pelosi, recession, tarp, unemployment
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People pretty much tend to blame employment, or lack thereof, on the President. However, economic policy and spending comes from Congress. Sure, the Senate has some input, but what gets voted on is purely the Speaker of the House’s prerogative. So, I tend to look at the politics of it all a little different. I [...]
Tags: barack obama, bush tax cuts, congress, democrats, economic-policy, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, speaker-of-the-house, unemployment
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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 [...]
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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No sooner than I posted the previous comment, I read this: For too long, leaders in control of Congress neglected the needs of working Americans. But our new Congress listened to what working Americans said last November. It heard their call for change and acted on its principles, giving a raise to the people who [...]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, afl-cio, barack obama, harry reid, hillary clinton, john-sweeney, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, organized-labor
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Mark Levin over at The Corner on NRO had this comment: So, the Iraqi government reportedly hasn’t met any of its targets . Has the Democrat Congress met any of its targets? Now, being as this is the first time I’ve ever seen a need to actually quote National Review here, I thought it must [...]
Tags: andress-sullivan, congress, democrat, dr-steven-taylor, harry reid, iraq, mark-levin, minimum-wage, nancy pelosi, National Politics, Poliblog, Politics, tax-incentives, The Media, The-Daily-Dish
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November 20th, 2006 | 1 Comment
Why do I feel like a broken record? I just posted on Charlie Rangel proposing reinstating the draft, Ted Kennedy wanting to tax businesses to death, and now, Ted Kennedy wanting to raise minimum wage. I gave my reasons why this idea sucks a long time ago. They haven’t changed. Fair warning here folks, the [...]
Tags: charlie-rangel, minimum-wage, National Politics, ted-kennedy
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