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Here It Comes: Obama Considering Executive Order To Raise Minimum Wage
We thought that all perfectly idiotic headlines regarding the encroachment of central-planning would come from traditional banana republics as Venezuela, and of course France, such as the following:
- MADURO SAYS VENEZUELA TO HAVE NEW FX SYSTEM
- MADURO SAYS DOLLAR TO REMAIN AT 6.3 BS/DOLLAR IN 2014
- MADURO CREATES AGENCY TO ENFORCE FAIR PRICES
- MADURO SAYS LAW TO ALLOW MAX. 30% PROFIT MARGIN
- NIGERIA TO SET UP FANNIE MAE-STYLE MORTGAGE FINANCE CO.
- FRANCE PASSES LAW TO TAX WEALTHY AT 75%
And so on.
Boy were we wrong.
Moments ago The Hill reported that what many thought was absolutely impossible, may in fact become a reality: President Obama is considering issuing an executive order (#394,039,993,837?) to raise the minimum wage for Federal Workers... and in the process - with the help of that other central planner par excellence Bernyellen - lap all those other Banana republics that everyone so enjoys making fun of.
President Obama is considering using his executive authority to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, he told Senate Democrats during a closed meeting at the White House.
Lawmakers present at the Wednesday night session said Thursday that Obama did not bring up the matter himself, but appeared receptive to the idea when questioned on the topic. “The issue was raised,” Sen. Barbra Boxer (D-Calif.) said Thursday. “He said he was looking at it, as he looks at everything else.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who was also in attendance, offered a similar account and said he has heard from members of the president’s staff that he is seriously considering executive action on the measure.
Obama and congressional Democrats are pushing for an across-the-board hike in the minimum hourly wage, from $7.25 to $10.10. But Republicans are cool to the plan, warning it could hurt the economy.
Federal contractors represent only a fraction of the nation’s employees. Businesses that together received more than $446 billion in federal contracts employ some 2 million workers, only some of whom are paid the minimum wage. Still, an increase for that segment of the workforce could generate momentum toward a raise for all workers now paid the lowest amount allowable by law.
An executive order to that effect would be tantamount to setting a minimum wage for federal contractors, they said. “Profitable corporations that receive lucrative contracts from the federal government should pay all of their workers a decent wage,” the lawmakers wrote. Obama in recent days has vowed to make 2014 "a year of action," even if it means relying heavily on administrative authority to pursue policy goals in lieu of congressional action.
Suddenly it all makes sense: in order to "fix" one idiotic act of central planning with unintended consequences, namely letting the Fed take over capital markets in order to preserve the oligarchic, kleptocratic system, pardon financial stability, and in the process make the uber-wealthy richer beyond their wildest dreams, while making the poor yearn for the days of the first Great Depression, the president will now one-up that act, and progress with even more "centrally-(un)planned", authoritarian acts which bypass Congress entirely, make a mockery of the republic, result in even more adverse unintended consequences, and practically assure that in the great race for the Banana Republic (or is that Banana Dictatorship?) endgame, the US has just overtaken everyone.
If only the Fed could now proceed to stop pretending things are getting better and promptly Taper the Taper, so as to push the superturbo printing button, it would at least assure that the great reset will come that much faster. At this point, it couldn't possibly come fast enough.
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A government that does nothing is the best that you can expect from Governemnt.
When Governemnt passes any law you can be assured that you are going to get fucked. The best Government that you can hope for is one that is hopelessly paralyzed by GRIDLOCK. That way they will not pass laws to screw you over.
Why wouldn't they? They need more people to pay for Obamacare. Raise the wage, fewer deductibles, and more people in the single payer bucket.
The additional funds in th system will not go to the consumers, but to the socialist government that's currently leading our nation (and not in the right direction).
inbreed the greed
Get over it, stupidity is a completely normal symptom in central planning.
It would be stupidity on the central planners part if they were making a mistake. This is no mistake. It is a deliberate, well thought strategy, to lead their obsequious gushers as a means to strengthen their despotic grip on the rest of us.
The central planners are often of the highest IQ in society or at least are smart enough to surround themselves by high IQ persons. Their stunning cunning resides in their ability to manipulate the stupidity, or just genuine gullibility, of their totem-pole gazing admirers.
As we have seen it throughout history, we know that central planning always fails. How can they have a high IQ then?
Central planning is the complete ignorance of economic laws. You can ban markets, but you can't ban economic laws. The horrible outcome of this idiocy is always predetermined.
All hail MacBeth!
I know it's supposed to be a joke, but how do I go long on robots? Who are the biggest manufacturers of automated shit?
Fukushima Technologies
google is buying a robotics company... 'boston robotics' or somesuch.
The studies he and the Senate are going off of have been completely debunked, and a new study shows a rise that high could cause a over a million job loss.
http://www.minimumwage.com/2014/01/the-one-million-job-disaster/
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~dneumark/Neumark%20et%20al%20MW%20evaluation%...
Let me guess, rick berman is your friend... Why don't you just ask mcD what they think about min wage up front? http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Employment_Policies_Institute
http://www.minimumwage.com/about/
if he does he will only prove what an imbecile he really is.
WILL?????????????????
Won't matter anyways because we live in a make believe world when it comes to. financial responsibility. He who controls the the printing presses rule the world. That right Ben you fucking bastard and Yellen you fucking cunt?
I can't wait until he take the toilet paper factory !
Let's look at this for what it really is. The ACA and all of Obungas scandals(Benghazi, IRS, Fast & Furious, Syria, ect...) have damaged his party. When he says that 2014 is going to be a year of action, it's really just "code" for buying votes.
Obungsta is looking to buy any vote that he possibly can before November. Anyone that actually thinks he gives a rats ass about anyone but his own "sociopathic self" should promptly find the first hole in the ground and insert their head in it.
The other day I heard Grassley say that people in Washington live on an island surrounded by reality...about sums it up.
Per the Constitution, executive orders only pertain to the executive department of the federal government:
http://constitutionmythbuster.com/2013/01/12/do-executive-orders-violate-the-constitution/
But since this document is ignored by despots and their cheerleaders, then the congress, can override it, the supreme court can override it, or each individual state can challenge it. Are there any despotic desires in the members of congress, the supreme court, or states representatives? ...The other alternative is desperately trying to explain how price controls ultimately have the opposite effect of the proclaimed intent.
he should just make federal employees tax exempt. the fed will buy the debt.
This whole thing is about a TAX INCREASE. That is what raising the Minimum Wage is about.
They are attempting to save Social Security and Medicare. The ACA did not work out so well to GENERATE REVENUE.
They are DESPERATE. The Federal Unemployment Insurance Fund is tapped out, is broke and is depleted. Medicare and Social Security is heading in that direction of insolvency rapidly.
The Federal Reserve Bank is approaching insolvency.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
That is what this is about.
Until the Washington political party becomes two parties again with an opposition party (it could have been the Republican Party), then the Marxist who is president of the United States will use his voter-mob support to march through every constitutional protection of the American middle class.
Private property, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, equal justice under the law, fair taxation -- all will fall to the “I have a pen and I don’t need the legislature” president. And make no mistake, a universal raise in the minmum wage is the major catalyst for heavy inflation and monetization of the debt, as in transfers of hard-earned money from citizens A to citizens B.
In truth, these words and actions are from Barack Obama but really come from the newest addition to the Administration, John Podesta. Wrote Mike Dorning on December 19, 2013 in Podesta’s Push for Executive Power Raises Stakes on Obama Agenda:“When the Republican victory in the 2010 midterm election raised the prospect of political gridlock, John Podesta was ready with an answer: The president should bypass Congress and wield the executive powers of his office.
“Less than two weeks after the returns came in, Podesta had compiled 47 pages of proposals for unilateral action on issues from immigration to solar energy. President Barack Obama’s ability to ‘accomplish important change through these powers should not be underestimated,’ he wrote.
“Now, Podesta’s appointment as counselor to Obama adds a strong promoter of that strategy to the president’s inner circle as Republicans stand in the way of the White House agenda.”
Continued Dorning: “Among the proposals Podesta forwarded to Obama three years ago as head of the Center for American Progress, a research group with close ties to the administration, were a $2-per-barrel fee on imported oil to finance clean-energy projects, solar panels for Air Force hangars and curbs on detention of undocumented immigrants without criminal record…
“’He’ll be preaching to the choir in this administration,’ said Bruce Reed, who worked with Podesta as Clinton’s chief domestic policy adviser and until recently was Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff.
“Under the theme ‘We Can’t Wait,’ the White House started a series of executive actions before the 2012 election, including an order to stop deporting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, if they have no criminal record. Unable to win passage of a gun-control bill, Obama announced moves on firearms using his presidential authority earlier this year.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-20/podesta-s-push-for-executive-power-raises-stakes-on-obama-agenda.html
Exhibit ##394,039,993,837 that the Mexican mafia runs our government, the only people working for federal contractors for the minimum wage are Mexicans.
Because today is especially delicious.
http://youtu.be/KuewezQ2aDE
hope all the underground arms/munitions factories are gettin' "fired-up". blood is a comin'.
Unless the Congress fulfills its duty now to remove the usurper, I cannot see any other way this will go but violently.
A number of EOs have been promulgated over the last few years duplicating the Enabling Act of NAZI Germany. These EOs only require Activation by the Chief Executive at his discretion. They actually make the Executive the Sole Authority of Power within the US.
Buckle up.
The Hill = a right wing, K Street, red meat screed. I call BS.
And you DO know that Executive Orders are a legal tool for Presidents. That is why he can not be impeached for using Executive Orders. This is used the same as recess appointments when there is obstruction which is the right wing tool of choice. What goes around comes around.
You seem to be under the impression there will never be a "right winger" as president. Its not a good idea to have one person govern by edict, once you set the precedent it snowballs thereafter.
I'm trying to think of some mouth breathing right wing equal, to this leftist fruit we have now, to get my point across...imagine Sean Hannity, as prezbo, doing the same thing in reverse ;-)
Roadhazzard is frothing at the mouth. True believers in Zero are all insane.
Hard to believe there is anyone left who willingly wishes to clean up all the unicorn shit laying around after this, but I guess there are.
A trillion in "shovel ready jobs"...another trillion for "health care reform" which actually doubles everyones premiums and triples their deductibles and data mines people stupid enough to hit a "glitchy" website...didn't think it necessary to attend security briefings in the week leading up to Benghazi...Fast & Furious...and of course, million dollar golf lessons with Tiger Woods and four million dollar Hawaiian vacations.
Clearly, a man of the people...lol.
LSCF (liberalism/socialism/communism/fascism) is a religion. takes blind faith to believe it will work this time, even though has failed every time it has ever been tried throughout history. obama is the current high priest, infallible, and if unsuccessful his minions (msm, professors, other useful idiots) will deftly point the blame elsewhere despite facts and history. the faithful are constantly reminded of lifes inequities, prodded to envy, and taught to trust their envious feelings over analytical thought. praise the obama , regular guy working hard for the little guy. scary shit
Feel free to attach any beliefs you can dream up to me. It's the winger way, when you can't dispute the post burn the poster. All you wingers have the same shtick no matter what web site. A real collection of morons with their lips run out.
"frothing" , lol. See I'm not an Obama lover, just a winger hater. I love poking at ignorance. Y'all think your shit don't stink. You all have the whining down pat but not one solution except get rid of Obama. I think it All stinks, winger clowns included.
whine on, wingers. When you can't dispute the post dump on the poster. You do, I win.
You should have stopped the BushCo administration. More power was given/ transfered to the Executive Branch than ever before. Google it, but I know you won't because you already know I didn't bullshit. It started when BuchCo was given authority to go to war with Iraq if he felt it was necessary, and with "911 !" the move was on. Congress sheds itself of any responsibility when they give more power to the Executive Branch. I said at the time that the next President and all Presidents after would be able to wield those powers too. I guess the wingers thought They would always be in power. Obama didn't miss a beat and neither will the next POTUS.
How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?
God almighty, how in sweet potato Christ do I unfuck myself from my goddamn social security number? Ugh
I need to find the equivalent of Saul's buddy on Breaking Bad who disappears people. My new name will be Tito Santana.
No, no, no Meat. You need to think much bigger. Make your name the same as a famous banker and raid one of their accounts in the Cayman's. If you get caught, cite some obscure new accounting rule that makes it all perfectly legal. :-)
I think we can now safely conclude we are under a full dictatorship.
Within 12 months, there will be no functioning Congress or Federal Courts. This usurper has decided to seize Absolute Power.
Americans now have a serious choice to make, and serious decisions.
These types of men always bring destruction and death. America is no different from any other country in history and this horror will happen here unless it is stopped-soon.
America is no different. Actually may be worse , because the people think they are different. And it won't happen here. Dangerous !
"These types of men always bring destruction and death" ..heck nobody lives forever. die on your knees or as free men, not there yet, but the reptiles act like they have won, and are getting very careless..oh we can still change it voting on diebold networks that cannot verify our vote milliseconds later. yah voting that's the ticket.
Fed can't get inflation one way it will get it another... The presidential puppet..... Geez he's worse than Dubya
He can't do that. It's not allowed. Only Congress can pass laws.
It's a fundamental, basic fact everyone knows.
told ya when the messiah returned from the berghoff hed have a new winter offensive. operation barbaric banana
A lot of business's will close - A lot of business's are owned by individuals, for example many Dairy Queens are franchises. The owners can't afford this.
Plus a large segment of the population is now streched thin as it is so if they raise the prices to compensate business will dwindle.
Obama - wrecking America one unconstitutional swipe of the pen after another!
Yes.
It’s a mistake to think that Barack Obama’s increased use of executive orders is coming from the White House. Now it’s coming from White House counselor John Podesta but the major force of these ideas are coming from the international bankers. They are running Obama like he’s some sort of trick pony.
They have put a bridle on him and they are leading him around by the nose.
He was raised by Marxists, he was taught by Marxists; his church was a Marxist church. That’s who he is. That's who put him in office and that’s from whom he's taking orders.
Frank Marshall Davis Jr,, red diaper baby extraordinaire,
This is exactly what you'd expect from a leader that has failed to create more jobs five years into his term.
This is an adminssion his policies have failed.
Shhhhhh...Listen. Do you hear that sound?
It's the sound of jobs leaving the USA.
How about this instead? Issue an executive order limiting the maximum wage for federal employees to 80% of what a similar occupation would pay in the private sector.
Or at least grandfather out all the various agencies and departments that violate the 10th amendment and if there is a remaining demand for that function then the private sector will pick it up and adjust the pay accordingly.
This is stupid - is there one single Federal Worker who makes the minimum wage?
Federal Workers are America's overlords. They have made Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia rich.
There are very few federal workers earning minimum wage. This proposal is to raise the minimum wage for assorted federal contractors, employees of private companies working on federal projects. People such as painters and janitors in federal buildings, the people who cut grass and tend the grounds in parks, and various types of low-skilled regular workers who keep these places operational. They work hard and deserve a decent salary. Why is he delaying this?
Deserve is a very dangerous word and you should remove it from your vocabulary.
So as long as the federal workers help isnt starving and homeless...unicorns still shit skittles?
The architect builds a home from the ground up, cause building it from the top down doesnt work. The government should take this lesson from the Architect.
The only thing the government "deserves" is some accountability for their actions.
RIPS
It has been my experience that architects are absolutely fucking worthless when it comes to actually 'building' something, although they are very good at drawing lines on paper and shmozzing the customer
They are very "liberal" with money that is not theirs, aren't they? ;-)
Shit is finally getting bad enough for the some of the sheeple to wake up. Maybe we can finally take a little R&R, and get ready for the big game.
Nono the sheeple won't awake...we are in the semi finals of the colosseum games and then the Super Colosseum bowl. His timing is perfect. I love the use of classic roman sheeple distraction.
About time. The 1% have theirs, now time for the rest of us.
Yes because near poverty is so much better than in poverty... Oh wait..now I have been cut off from several government programs which benefits actually added up to more than the new minimum wage. Of course the debt won't go up since federal contractors will find it in the goodness of their hearts to not pass the cost along to the tax payers.
Sir Genius... Do you think a rise in pay for federal contractors will somehow NOT get passed along to the taxpayers? Either debt or taxes will have to rise... ,aye both.
That's pretty inspiring talk Bill. You sure know how to think big.
The best part, I'm skilled labor multiple certifications and much schooling... thousands in expenses for the skills gained. I make $12/hr from the state working part-time. Might as well flip fucking burgers now. :/
Idiotic capitalists are fucking everything up. You have to occasionally feed the golden goose every once in a while, you can't just steal every egg for ever.
Raise the minimum wage, give everyone at least 2 weeks holiday a year, and bring in single payer health care. The capitalists might have a few bucks less, but they will still have their heads.
If not, bring on the revolution. The imbalance has to resolved one way or the other
Crony capitalism isn't free market capitalism; it is fascism, i.e., socialism with a dictator. Should the USA fall under the totalitarian fist of full Marxism, the US dollar will go the way of the USSR ruble – it will become a trading stamp as in food stamp.
“The economy of the Soviet Union was a government-controlled planned economy, where the government controlled prices and the exchange of currency. Thus, its role was unlike that of a currency in a market economy, because distribution of goods was controlled by other mechanisms than currency, such as centrally planned quotas, queuing or blat. Only a limited set of products could be freely bought, thus the ruble had a role similar to trading stamps or food stamps. The currency was not internationally exchangeable and its export was illegal. The sudden transformation from a Soviet "non-currency" into a market currency contributed to the economic hardship following the collapse of the Soviet planned economy.” -- Wikipedia
I don't think your revolution is the same as the one most people on ZH discuss from time to time. You may not be asked to join that one.
billwilson, leader of the lawn chair revolution.
Or recruiter for the FBI-sponsored 'militia.'
Let's all make some silencers in Bill's garage!
Greece and Italy used this model...how's it working?
True capitalism doesn't exist here. There is no such thing as too big to fail in true capitalism.
I vote for revolution...
You have no freaking idea what capitalism is. If you did you would recognize that we live in a corporatist state. If we had a capitalist system we would have had multiple failed institutions back in 2008. Instead the countries real owners forced bail outs and the last semblance of any relatively free markets were gone.
I hope he does do this, because you will quickly see just how far that raise won't go once companies raise prices and more small businesses go under.
A Federal worker getting minimum wage? Ya gotta be shitt'n me...It would be easier to find a pink, spotted Unicorn that shits bitcoins......
Farewell small business... we hardly knew ya.
What's really needed is a presidential candidate that announces that the first thing he'g going to do is issue an executive order that nuls and voids every one of Obama's executive orders.
Will all those twits who shout that Obongo is a capitalist stooge of the corporations please sit down and shut up now...?
This is SOCIALISM writ large...
I don't support Socialism or Marxism for the 1%
You sound like a free market capitalist ;-)
Shortly to be followed by moar EO's mandating an end to hatred in all its' forms, world peace, and another instituting universal happiness. It's good to be King.
In case anyone wasn't paying attention.
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2014/01/16/in-yesterdays-cabinet-meeting...
As we reported, Americans yesterday were treated to one of those rare moments when the kimono is opened and the mask drops. Obama admitted, openly, that he plans to double-down on his extra-legal activities. This came as no surprise to many of us, though it should still shock and enrage all of us . . . and if you did not yet read or hear it, you should.
But today, I want to point out something else that he said in the same cabinet meeting. It caught my eye, and sickened my heart, the instant I saw it. He said,
If you hear that last part of the last line and think that it sounds innocuous enough, you’re not taking into account Obama’s ideological beliefs and pedigree. Obama is not merely making some bland statement about “giving back.” This is not community-spirit pablum. This is an expression of Obama’s holistic view of man’s relationship to the state.
To Obama—as to many totalitarians who have come before—the State is in charge. Some people are wards of the state, and others are required to provide for the state’s needs. All people owe their obedience to the state. A person’s rights are not his own, but are contingent upon the state’s provision of the rights it decides he gets to have. It is the state, not the individual, who is sovereign. All individuals are components of the collective, and all activities are within the state’s jurisdiction and purview.
And if you didn’t hear that in Obama’s statement about your “obligations . . . . to your nation,” you should have. Obama’s “holistic” view of man’s relationship to the state undergirds his thinking, and was the foundation and motivation for the statement. It was not an exhortation to be active in the civil society; it was a reminder: Remember who is in charge. Remember that your labor is not your own. Remember—you owe us, and we will come and collect any time we like.
Also as a reminder from one Milton Friedman in ”Capitalism and Freedom”
Anyone see the parallels between both here?
Been reading your comments lately. Good stuff.
I think Friedman hit on the reason that Kennedy's quote never quite settled well with me.
Good analysis. It would be a good thing for the world if it was only Obama doing this as Americans will only let it go so far. However, look around, these moves are being made all over the developed world, in Europe, in Japan, in Central Asia. It is so pervasive, even Americans are appluading acts by China and Russia which, in years past, would have, at most, merely raised an eyebrow.
The Majority of the people didn't read the Article; they just took the sensationalized headline and started typing. To those people I would say Igonrance is bliss; and you are the OFFICIAL reason we are in this quagmire.
A bit harsh, but I think you have a point. The night crew seems to get a larger crowd of mindless, ready, shoot, aim types.
They want inflation? Putting frn's in poor peoples hands is the best way to do it.
We should pay minimum wage in bitcoin and let the low wage worker ride the fonestar wave to epic glory!
What a good idea!
In 2008 I had 30 employees.....
Now I have 5 employees, 3 which are part time......
O'goober raises min wage, I will be down to zero employees working the company myself and family only!!!!!
If your margins suck that much you should have no employees now. Get your fat ass in the kitchen and earn your own keep. Your employees will be fine, plenty of programs in place to keep them cared for.
I'll bet you know a lot about sucking, jizball. Get on ur skinny knees and earn your keep.
I'm down to me myself and Manuel.
This is great news as far as I am concerned.
Long as they are giving 80 billion a month to the banks, might as well throw a few more bucks to the leeches who at least pretend to work.
At least the bottom feeders will spend the shit an not stack it on their vaults next to all the other money they never earned.
Fuck Qe just give money to the poor until we have Weimar redux. Works for me.
Well it won't be enough. Pathetic how anti wage zero is, won't make an ounce of difference to the economy to pick the bottom en up a rung. They are doomed anyway.
The proforma for burger flipping robots just generated a better looking return
"But Republicans are cool to the plan, warning it could hurt the economy."
Republicans are on the golf course. They dont' even care.
Republicans are on the golf course ... in Tel Aviv.
Courtesy of their sponsors.
Can he do another executive order?
I wanna be 6' 2" and 190 lbs.
The key here of course is "federal workers". Last time I checked, Ketchup [who works at Starbucks making coffee] isn't a federal worker. Neither are any of the Micky D workers slinging burgers. It's nothin but style over substance for President Goebbels, as he desparately tries to remain relevant.
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A foot in the door...
The camel's nose under the tent...
I'm just going to rub the outside of your pussy with the head of my dick...
Get it now?
It is a way of pressuring the States and Congress to act legislatively. On the other hand, as a substitute for actually legislating a new minimum wsge, this executive order would be a dictatorial act.
Obama wasn't satisfied with all the layoffs he generated from Obamacare. He must now make millions more.
duplicate.
They are like pedophiles. They won't stop until they are locked up.
Good for gun sales though.
We are so fucked. I'm going to take the day off work tomorrow and buy a few new cars....I'm certain Obooger will pay for them. What an ass-clown!
Don't worry about it. It won't kick in until Obama is out of office. Obama will be the Socialist darling and the next President will have to contend with the ramifications.
Bankster's names and addresses need to be kept in a database and neighbors alerted if one of them moves nearby. Don't let the children near them.
When Johnny is asked what he wants to be when he grows up pray the lord he doesn't reply, "a bankster or a lawyer."
"This, people, is.....
Cloward-Piven At Work"
Ah.... The Cloward-Piven stratagy is to get people on the government dole for a long enough time to become dependant. No longer seeking employment (that brings self esteem), but happy to take free benefits and be controled.
The Statist, Tricky Dick Clinton honored them for this great concept. How to enslave millions of people, and have them feel entitled to it. So when the time comes, they point out the business owners, the farmers, etc. Except the corporations (which work with the government to make our fine rules).
So we have Hitler's economic system, and Mussolini's government structure.
Thankfully nothing can go wrong with this situation!
Lynx
You don't discuss any district, state, region, or country unless include money sitting in offshore accounts. We have X unemployment and Y food stamp use; Republicans in Washington, DC, should be sent home to staff the unemployment and food stamp offices, and then let Republicans and their paymasters squeal. Sit back and laugh.
So corporations are going to send jobs offshore? They've already done that. If 49 states don't have Wall Street, New York state doesn't need Wall Street either. Shut down Wall Street. It might have had its uses when the colonies were developing into a United States, but Wall Street has served its usefulness. Shut it down. Squealing can easily be ignored.
The chairman has spoken.
Next grand plan is the seizure of assets of assets.
Shit went past surreal quite awhile ago. I'm starting to wonder if maybe the world actually ended at some point, I failed to notice, and now this is all just a real bad room in hell?
He's making everyone HATE everyone.
I will be the one they were not ready for.
Nazi in the white house strikes again.
Barry has fucked the poor so badly in the last 5 years - raising minimum wage wipes out more jobs.
Some Kennedy this fucking Barry asshole.
Who the fuck pays their employees less than $10.10 per hour ? That's probably less than the inflation adjusted cost of acquiring and maintaining a slave in the 1800's . Of course, they didn't have the SNAP program to subsidize your greedy ass business back then.
Yes. It is cheaper than aquiring and maintaining humans as property. On more ledgers than those containing only accounts of dollars, as you elude to.
Lots of people make less thsn $10.10 / hr. Walmart daytime employees, some of them. Waitresses are often paid $3.00 / hr or less, not counting tips. Fast food workers are another.
This guy Obama truly is one stupid motherfucker.
He single handedly validates
Charles Alan Murray and Richard J. Herrnstein, "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life", 1994.
Whatever. Just how much of a percentage of the current defense budget would this represent?
Could probably be offset by one less replacement tank for a base in Montana.
won't happen anyway this EO.
Obamacares bitchez!
This latest executive order is no accident. Both Democrats and Republicans are behind it, hoping to push someone over the edge, so they can enact more draconian police powers in the name of safety and protection of the republic. It's the same story repeated countless of times throughout human history. In the end, fear sells.
This article is stupid.
What's everyone getting their panties in a twist over here? Calm down ZH hyperventilating nimrods...this is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
some of us don't wear panties, you eyes wide shut numnuts panty sniffers will never get it
Well, it isn't quite as scary as the headline indicates as it only affects Federal contractors. Many of these contractors have other business so they can just give up the government business and concentrate on the private stuff. That would be fine with me. Some 'businesses' who only sell to the government will, of course, ask the government for more money (and get it). They will also get the government 'business' that other contractors give up. The net effect might be to reduce the number of businesses with both government contracts and private business. That will divide the nation as government contractors get a free ride and non-government businesses don't. Such division might be a good but unintended consequence.
If you want your job vacancy, you can keep you job vacancy.
Meanwhile the other commies - China
0219 GMT [Dow Jones] China's egg futures fall to the lowest level since their debut in November as investors are concerned about a potential breakout of bird flu
So egg futures are cracked, scrambled, and sold over easy?
Empty gesture from the empty suit.
This probably won't amount to one vacation to Hawaii for the O-man. Maybe the jet fuel for Air Force One.
He's distracting people from something else.
This is connected to ObamaCare
Words of wisdom...if you want to jam a black chick, don't say anything bad about Obama.
Smart men learn from the experience of others.
This is all just driving the economy further underground.
What Rush Limbaugh has called 'possibly the worst decision he could make.'
Wow, are you trying to help this debate or hurt it?
Maybe you should throw in a fox news survey to boot.
BTW, it's a bit vague. Is this rush making the worst decision? Kinda like that time he tried to learn kick boxing..
Moderator:
Clean up in Aisle 3.
Oh, that picture, is ripe!
Er, rife with evil.
http://xrepublic.tv/node/1189
It sure is amazing when one considers all these different countries and political systems were all created to pit against each other for profits and death. Almost like inventing new chess pieces to enter the game with a better ever morphing and dwindling advantage, but then suddenly from the depths of sadism, kills that which they created, and two seconds ago loved.
Any thing that does this to a planet of innocent beings will deserve the punishment that is coming. The world they envision and plan for, is not what will be. The money god will die. Follow if one chooses to...the course is well known. You can only serve one master. You serve the master of the flesh/material, or you serve the Master of the Spiritual Kingdom. Each carries it's weight of Karma and opposite reactions from which there is NO escape. What goes around, comes around. Here we go again. Choose well, and serve well, you gotta serve somebody.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DMG_qBg2c
Knukles has it right this is Cloward-Piven "Burn the Motherf*cker down" 101. No one is this STUPID. Especially the highly intelligent over achiever the MSM elected for us.
The only way any of this sh*t makes any sense is if it is all designed to bring down the greastest country on the planet.
And guess what, it's WORKING
What's the min wage in Australia? We can beat that, right? This is 'merica after all.
(#1! #1! #1!)
http://truth-out.org/video/item/18106-australia-has-16-minimum-wage-and-...
Dude flipping burgers in Brisbane gets full bennies too. But how much more does that big Mac cost, you ask?
$.70
(So what's the problem paying 20 hr to my local mcD here in billings? If it costs a buck more I'd pay it)
What is so magical about $10.10? If $10.10 is good, wouldn't $25 be even better?
Seems to work for hotel workers in Switzerland...
There is no minimum wage in Switzerland, but there is a strong sense of community: if we all go for the cheapest products and lowest wages we'll find ourselves in a race to the bottom. This is why there is an unofficial minimum wage, which even large supermarket chains stick to. It's around $4000 a month, and that works well for everyone.
Compared to the price level (rent, food etc) that provides a reasonable living wage, which you need to have a stable economy.
Switzerland exemplifies the opposite of central planning:
"cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared to other administrative divisions such as counties, departments or provinces. Internationally the best-known cantons, and the most politically important, are those of Switzerland. As the constituents of the Swiss Confederation, theoretically (and historically) the Swiss cantons are semi-sovereign states."
If this happens, it will be interesting to watch the behavior of reliably supine democrat congress-critters as they watch their precious power base slip away into irrelevancy.
Big money donors will be relieved to discover they must bribe only the prez and his nearby cronies and need no longer launch teams of expensive lobyists up to the Hill to curry favor and fund "campaign donations".
Tyranny is the graveyard of republics because it is ultimately the most efficient form of government and requires no thinking by citizens. The American people have twice chosen exactly the right man for the job.
March 1, 2014 By Executive Order, Barrack Obama President of the United States Declares the Legislative Branch is on Permanent Recess. He therefore will issue Executive Order 399,889,888,5556 authorizing all rule be transferred to the President.
March 10, 2014 To preserve National Security, By Executive Order, Barrack Obama, President of the United States declares all Federal Court Judges are to be Permanently Sequestered in Gitmo.
March 22, 2010 By Executive Order, Barrack Obama, President of the United States, declares Unified, Unlimited Powers of Rule shall reside in the Newly Formed Position of King of the World. The only valid appointees must have ruled a free country, be the holder of a Nobel Peace Prize and must by birth represent a third world county. Finding that President of the United States, Barrack Obama is the only qualified ruler able to fill this position, Barrack Obama, by Executive Order appoints himself to this position, for life.
The legislative branch, finding themselves on permanent recess. realizes there is no mechanism for dealing with a World King. They consider themselves adjourned and all simply go home.
The IRS, under executive order by King Obama, begin seizing all bank accounts, pensions, real estate and personal properties. They implement plans for the first annual, year long orgy for all IRS personnel, to begin in 2015.
The sheeple go back to eating grass.
Sounds crazy. But if you would have told me ten years ago that we'd be living in the country we now have I would have told you that you were crazy then, too.
$15 an hour to have someone at the airport feel me up, sounds like a bargain.
Federal workers?
not all citizens? won't that start a war?
It's not the level of the wage that counts but what it buys. Is it actually an increase? Or is it an attempt to restore wage levels (and thus spending and thus tax revenues) to where they were 5 years ago?
In the UK our government is recommending a rise in our minimum wage from £6.31 to £7.00 later this year in the full knowledge that the entire workforce will need a raise of around 7% to maintain parity and will in turn demand it.
The picture in the article says it all. What else do you need? The O is a fucking Marxist, his supporters are Marxist. The question will become: do you support the Red army or the White army, ala 1917?
People are calling him a socialist. We can quibble about the definitions perhaps, but O is a fascist....clear and simle He is becoming a version of Hitler and Mussolini.
O is anything but a Fascist which by definition is a nationalist and the fuckmeister certainly is not far far right!
whoever is hitting the minus on my comment...fuck you you ignorant fucks. See the picture? They are Marxist-Lenninist or communist all... no fucking fascist there you dumb fucks.