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Thu Jun-30-11 01:11 PM
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Republicon on Thom Hartmann suggests hiring ten people at $5 hr instead of |
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5 people at $10 hr. I know a lot of Americans who can survive on $5 hr. :sarcasm:
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:13 PM
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1. Howzabout we pay Thom Hartmann $5/hr? |
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...along with any other asshole who thinks we should ditch minimum wage?
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:16 PM
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2. It wasn't Thom Hartmann saying that |
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It was the right wing libertarian fuck on the phone
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:31 PM
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7. Scuse me...I read that incorrectly. |
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But anyone who agrees with the libertarian dumbfuck, including Michelle Blockhead Bachman, should find out firsthand what it's like to try to live off minimum wage. Then they should have to try living off half that wage.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:33 PM
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9. I wish all right wingers had to live off of $5 hr. |
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The idiot said minimum wage is costing America jobs.
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:09 PM
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20. It IS costing America jobs. |
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If it were higher, far more people would actually be able to buy more than the essentials (or just the essentials). Raising the minimum wage would be one of the best things we could do to spur job creation.
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:24 PM
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22. He said reduce wages and the market would create more jobs. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:51 PM
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The last several implementations of Reaganomics put a lie to that myth. As Robert Reich recently said, it's the demand, stupid. Until the masses get enough money to buy more than just the essentials, there will be no recovery.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:21 PM
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if you knew a thing about Thom you'd know he'd never, ever condone such a thing.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:32 PM
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8. My mistake. I read the thread title incorrectly. |
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I'm not familiar with Hartman.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:34 PM
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:49 PM
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Thu Jun-30-11 09:18 PM
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just read where you'd corrected it. Thom is probably the last person on earth to say something like that. ;)
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Thu Jun-30-11 10:12 PM
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40. Glad to hear it, and glad to have a link to his broadcast. |
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I read "Republicon on Thom Hartman" as "Republicon Thom Hartmann"...My poor old brain was playing tricks on me again!
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:20 PM
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3. At the End Thom Turned his Question on its head |
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-11 01:31 PM by fascisthunter
by asking where in the Constitution it said anything about it being illegal for government to create a minimum wage. "GENERAL WELFARE"... it's in there, but does it say government can't look out for the "general welfare" of workers in the US? NOPE!
He's just another sociopath hiding behind a twisting of the Constitution!
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:24 PM
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5. It wasn't Tom, but his guest |
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Who also could not handle Smith
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:30 PM
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6. He told Thom Hartmann that wages should be paid based on the market. |
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-11 01:45 PM by ej510
Thom said no one could live on $5 hr and the right wing asshole said so what. Who said anyone should be paid a living wage? Thom said if a business does not want to pay a living wage, then that business should not be in business.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:40 PM
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11. I know, they'd love the Stweart industrial code |
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Maximum wages. I was making sure to clarify it was not Thom though.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:42 PM
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12. Hell, why not hire 100 people, give them corbread and molasses and an overseer? |
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:48 PM
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13. Why not bring back slavery? Who could beat those wages? |
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:28 PM
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23. I think that's the plan |
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I'm not playing.............
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:33 PM
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24. A libertarian paradise where the wealthy live on a hill protected by the military from us poor |
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:22 PM
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21. Give'em time. That's the goal. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:53 PM
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15. He/She may be on to something, they could hire 5000 people at .01 an hour. |
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Unemployment would evaporate!:bounce:
Thanks for the thread, ej.
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:54 PM
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17. Those people would actually make a wage. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:08 PM
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19. Not after the Republicans tax them to pay for the rich folk's corporate jets. |
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But somebody's got to sacrifice for the good of the nation, it might as well be the poor, weak, "least among us," middle class, old, sick, down and out.
This could finally give the Republicans an environmental policy, let them eat Soylent Green.
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:35 PM
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25. That's Michelle Bachmann's platform. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 01:58 PM
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18. Except that the job requres 1 person. |
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So, what fool is going to hire 10 people to do a job that requires 1 person? No, what will happen is that you will end up with 1 person being paid 5, and the rest going hungry, because that person making 5 can barely feed themselves and is not buying anything other than food.
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:37 PM
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:12 PM
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30. Exactly. So long as there are nine hungry people willing to work for $5, wages will never go up. n/t |
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Thu Jun-30-11 02:40 PM
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27. How about 10 teachers at $100,000 each / yr .... |
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instead of 1 useless hedgefund manager at $1,000,000/yr?
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:10 PM
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29. Or10,000 teachers instead of a billion dollar 'bonus' for said manager? n/t |
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:17 PM
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31. Nah that might actually help people a little bit, so we must do the |
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:20 PM
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32. See? If we can't have a pittance, then at least we can have a crumb! |
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And look up to those lucky few $10/hour pittance winners, and aspire to BE them someday! The Republican plan is working perfectly.
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:24 PM
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33. And republicons call liberals evil. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 03:41 PM
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34. Or fire all the executives and pay the workers $250,000+ to make decisions |
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Thu Jun-30-11 04:58 PM
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35. Who can survive on $10/hr? |
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Thu Jun-30-11 05:03 PM
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36. No one and the libertarian idiot did not care about a living wage, he |
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Thu Jun-30-11 10:21 PM
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41. I survive on 8.25 an hour. |
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Edited on Thu Jun-30-11 10:25 PM by glen123098
I rent a house for 450 a month that has seen better days. (it was actually cheaper than any 1 room apartment we could find) Me and my fiance split the rent. We looked up how much it appraised for, 17,000. The house next door is abandoned with a bunch of junk outside. Our neighbor on the other side is a car lot, which feels the need to constantly play loud base, which there is little we can do about. We live in a high crime area. We have been in this house for 4 months, and someone has already tried to break in in the middle of the night. I drive a car that is a hand me down from my mother. My fiance says this is the wealthiest she has ever been, and I think its an ok place to be. But this would be no way to raise a family, so I dont know how someone could support a family with this low of a wage. I can get by, living frugally.
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Thu Jun-30-11 10:24 PM
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42. Where do you live? You are one of the few. |
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Cost of living is very low here. There is no way I could do this in california.
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Thu Jun-30-11 05:50 PM
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37. Cheap Labor Cons, That's their whole platform. Right now they're salivating |
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over the prospect of millions of desperate, and hungry baby boomers to hire as cheap labor when they decimate Social Security.
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Thu Jun-30-11 09:30 PM
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39. Republicons envy dictator nations. |
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Thu Jun-30-11 10:27 PM
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44. OK -- let's start with members of Congress -- !! |
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