Raise the minimum wage or abolish it?

October 12, 2014 at 11:54 am
Norm Kelly says:

'Polls show a majority of Americans and North Carolinians support'. How many of those polled are demon voters? Put another way, how many of those polled are low-information types? A majority of NC voters decided that gay marriage should be banned. In order to avoid outrageous court cases where some judge decides that the majority of voters don't count and that the opinion of a single judge is more meaningful, our legislators decided a Constitutional amendment would be more powerful. Except some judge decided that the majority of voters were wrong. Again.

In this case, for some unknown reason, the libs choose to promote the majority opinion. Except it's not for any unknown reason. The reason that libs choose to tout the majority opinion is because it supports their feelings THIS TIME.

How many of those polled, and touted by libs, have all the information necessary to actually make a decision? How many of those polled would be positively affected by a minimum wage increase? This would be those who are currently working in a minimum wage job who have no hope of getting a raise without central planner involvement. First, low-information voters do NOT know that only a minority of people in this state and the country actually earn the minimum wage. Most of the minimum wage earners are teenagers, working their first job. Forcing business to pay unskilled, first timers to get a pay raise they have not earned nor qualify for would mean that fewer of them would be employed. (also, how many of those polled indicated that they were doing OK, but they were worried about their neighbors? it's typical if this question is asked for a majority to say they are good, but they are concerned about neighbors. but when a majority are saying this, it means that your neighbor is doing just fine, but has been convinced by things like misleading N&D editorials to believe that someone else that you don't know is suffering. and typically these misleading stories try to tell us that it's our fault that our neighbors are suffering.)

Then there's the negative impact on the economy when the minimum wage is increased. How many of those polled, and touted by libs, have been informed about these negative impacts? When the central planners artificially increase the cost of doing business TO ANY BUSINESS, those businesses are forced to pass that cost onto customers of that business. When minimum wage workers do business at some other business that has been forced to artificially increase costs, those same workers are not able to buy as much at said business. So how does this HELP the minimum wage workers? And if a minimum of employees are earning the minimum wage, and they get a pay raise forcing businesses to raise their prices, how does this negatively affect those of us who DIDN'T get a central planner-mandated pay raise?

Chris and most libs MAY believe they have powerful arguments for raising the minimum wage. The arguments for NOT raising it are even more powerful, but rarely talked about. In addition, socialism hasn't worked anywhere else in the economy that it's been tried, why would it work here?

What's the difference between Romney's promise to lower the unemployment rate and the occupiers results? It's POSSIBLE, though we can never know, that conservative policies would have ACTUALLY reduced unemployment by INCREASING employment. We KNOW FOR SURE that the occupiers policies have produced a low unemployment number, if it's to be believed, by creating a historical level of unemployment. We have FEWER people participating in the employment sector than in over 50 years. This is a historical record. Which can be placed squarely at the feet of the occupier, and the do-nothing Senate run by senile Harry and supported by socialist K. The numbers coming from Washington to reflect a low unemployment number are provably fake. To all you libs, this means the numbers are being massaged to produce a LIE! More people than ever are dropping out of the workforce. More people than ever are on government subsistence programs. None of the current situation is sustainable. Add to this that the cost of everything is going up because of the policies of the socialists in Washington, including senile Harry and our own K. Coal-fired power plants are being forced to close because of lib policies. Since about 40% of the electricity in our once-great country is produced by coal-fired power plants, how do these socialists plan to continue to provide electricity? They HAVE NO PLAN! Yet for some reason, libs like the N&D editorial board and Chris continue to support and promote socialist plans, like those put forth by the occupier, supported by the senile Harry, and encourage by our own K. At the same time that socialists want to close coal-fired power plants, they are also standing in the way of the XL pipeline, with no valid reason presented.

So, Chris, instead of just promoting socialist plans, how about you document for us why & how these plans will BENEFIT the majority in the country, how these plans have succeeded around the world, and how even more central planner involvement in our daily lives is GOOD for us. Stop trying to sway already agreeable low-information, demon voters, and start presenting facts. Kinda like John Hood usually does. Feelings get everyone into trouble. Especially when your feeling tramples MY RIGHTS! Please feel free to 'feel' your way through life, but please stop trampling on my RIGHT to THINK my way through life, using logic and MY OWN EXPERIENCE. Please stop promoting more socialism in our country when it's possible for the rest of us to research your feelings and find that they are 180 degrees opposite of what has proven to be true across the globe. Your feelings lead to oppression of the masses by elitists, while the RIGHT, conservative plans prove that success is possible for anyone and everyone, provided government does not create barriers to individual freedom. The US CONSTITUTION was drafted to purposely restrict the powers of the central planners. What has changed over the past 200+ years when it concerns socialism & central planner control? Nothing! If anything, the idea of central planning has gotten worse, provably more destructive. Economic freedom leads to individual freedom for EVERYONE. Socialism leads to oppression, stagnation of economy, individuals locked into the environment they were born into, with little to no chance to change their individual future. Socialism creates equality for the masses. Problem is that equality is a depressing low-level equality. But those who promoted the idea of socialism, those who claim to be elitists, kinda like the occupier, senile Harry, and our own K, are the ones who build the socialist system to benefit THEMSELVES. And those who go along with socialism, promote socialism, kinda like the N&D editorial board & Chris, hope that the elites will ALLOW them to also take advantage of the system and ALLOW them to be more equal than the masses, along the lines of the equality enjoyed by the elites.

This time around, the headline didn't give away the author. Same drivel inside, but interesting headline. Talk about preaching to the choir though!