Tag Archive 'wages'

Minimum Wage goes up 70 cents today

Posted by Moonage on 24 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fed Policy, Idiot of the day, National Politics

That’s the headline on CNN.  The headline NOT on CNN is:
Unable to pay bills, London, Ky. YMCA closes
And, the reason they decided to give up?
Director Don Burgin said the London-Laurel County “Y” struggled with $6,000 monthly utility bills and its budget was further stretched by an increase in the minimum wage.
And of course, who do [...]

Keith Ellison’s Utopia

Posted by Moonage on 17 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Fun with Numbers, Idiot of the day

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 [...]

Medicare for All

Posted by Moonage on 10 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Health Care Debate, Polls

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]