Trump Abandons Last Vestiges of Conservatism, Promises a Considerable Hike in Minimum Wage

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: RED STATE

URL: http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/07/26/trump-abandons-last-vestiges-conservatism-promises-considerable-hike-minimum-wage/

by: Susan Wright


This is your candidate, Republicans.

After a GOP convention filled with liberal, Socialist ideas, such as cradle-to-grave big government care, the end to the “culture wars,” which means a push back against religious freedoms, now the new face of the Republican party is taking another step left (see here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-proposes-10-federal-minimum-wage/article/2597805).

    Donald Trump said Tuesday night that the federal minimum wage must be raised, and promised to implement a $10 per hour wage if elected president.
"I would say $10," Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly when asked about the specific figure he would recommend. "But with the understanding that somebody like me is going to bring back jobs. I don't want people to be in the $10 dollar category very long. I believe it should be raised."

Trump is laying down this proposal in response to Democrats, who have said he wanted to lower the minimum wage.

Not to be outdone by his liberal pals, Trump is pretty much blowing up everything conservatives and small government proponents have stood on.

 

  The billionaire businessman said he would use the federal wage as a base and encourage states to implement their own minimum wage that is higher than the $10 figure. But he also said some states need higher wages while others do not.

    "If you take New York, it's very expensive to live in New York," Trump said.

Republicans, you had one job…

[Mom MD]

SOURCE: RED STATE

URL: http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/07/26/trump-abandons-last-vestiges-conservatism-promises-considerable-hike-minimum-wage/

by: Susan Wright


This is your candidate, Republicans.

After a GOP convention filled with liberal, Socialist ideas, such as cradle-to-grave big government care, the end to the “culture wars,” which means a push back against religious freedoms, now the new face of the Republican party is taking another step left (see here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-proposes-10-federal-minimum-wage/article/2597805).

Trump is laying down this proposal in response to Democrats, who have said he wanted to lower the minimum wage.

Not to be outdone by his liberal pals, Trump is pretty much blowing up everything conservatives and small government proponents have stood on.

 
Republicans, you had one job…

The only thing that surprises me is the timing   I thought he would wait until after the election to show his true leanings

[massadvj]

Trump's supporters simply will not care. 

[Vulcan]

[geronl]

Trump's supporters simply will not care.

He could adopt the Democrat platform as his own and they wouldn't care

[Vulcan]

He could adopt the Democrat platform as his own and they wouldn't care

He's supported it for decades, both vocally and financially and they don't care.

[Cripplecreek]

He could adopt the Democrat platform as his own and they wouldn't care

He's a buidnezz man an Trump gonna build us a wall mmm hmmm

[geronl]

He's a buidnezz man an Trump gonna build us a wall mmm hmmm

That's about the way it is.

[Hoodat]

Trump's supporters simply will not care.

Sad, but true.  And even worse, they will continue to lie by saying that Trump is a Conservative.

[Vulcan]

Sad, but true.  And even worse, they will continue to lie by saying that Trump is a Conservative.

Trump is no conservative.

I am unaware of any conservative who has given 6-digit figures to the corrupt Clinton Foundation. Trump has. In fact, Trump has given heavily to far left democrat politicians like Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Anthony Wiener, Hillary Clinton, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Rahm Emmanuel, Charlie Rangel, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Tom Daschle and Joe Biden. Sure, he has given to Republicans also, but the majority of his generosity has gone to democrats, and the most vile among them.

I am unaware of any conservative who wants to ban "assault weapons". There is no such thing you know. "Assault weapon" is a term created by anti-gun liberals so they could ban guns based on cosmetic appearances...and Trump, being the liberal that he is, fell for it.

I am unaware of any conservative who has said they want to extend the waiting periods to purchase firearms. Trump has.

I am unaware of any conservative who has praised as "Brilliant" gun-grabbing leftist and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg for "Putting His Money Where His Mouth Is" on guns. Conservatives don't want to take guns, they respect the Second Amendment. Trump said he was for it. Conservative? I think not.

I am unaware of any conservative saying "the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans". Trump said just that.

I am unaware of any conservative who has said “Bush was probably the worst president in the history of the United States.” Trump said just that.

I am unaware of any conservative saying “I’m very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care.” Trump said just that.

I am unaware of any conservative who has supported nearly every facet of Obama’s disastrous economic agenda.  Trump did just that.

Conservative Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented on the 2005 Kelo Decision, which was the taking of a private individual's property, not for "public use" as is normally the case with eminent domain, but to give it to private industry as was done with Kelo (it was taken and given to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals). Being the crony capitalist he is, Trump said he was "100% for it".

From the bank bailouts to the auto bailouts, Trump has supported every facet of Obama’s economic plan.  His contributions to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi helped get them reelected so they could then foist Obamacare on the nation.  He claims he wants to “Make America Great Again” while in reality, he has supported every liberal who worked to destroy it.

Trump is a liberal as are his supporters.

[Frank Cannon]

I'm sure the sTRUMPettes will argue that this $10 dollar figure is just a ploy and that after he uses his stellar negotiating skills this will be knocked down to $9.75.

THAT"S A 25 CENT AND HOUR SAVINGS!!!!!!!!!!

[Silver Pines]

I'm sure the sTRUMPettes will argue that this $10 dollar figure is just a ploy and that after he uses his stellar negotiating skills this will be knocked down to $9.75.

THAT"S A 25 CENT AND HOUR SAVINGS!!!!!!!!!!

@Frank Cannon

Trump is playing three-dimensional chess here!  And....something about Sun Tzu, or....yeah...

BTW, no Trump supporters have showed up yet?   

[montanajoe]

I'm sure the sTRUMPettes will argue that this $10 dollar figure is just a ploy and that after he uses his stellar negotiating skills this will be knocked down to $9.75.

THAT"S A 25 CENT AND HOUR SAVINGS!!!!!!!!!!

The art of the bad deal....

[DB]

@Frank Cannon

Trump is playing three-dimensional chess here!  And....something about Sun Tzu, or....yeah...

BTW, no Trump supporters have showed up yet?   

Or he was a registered Democrat 7 short years ago and it shows...

[INVAR]

He could adopt the Democrat platform as his own and they wouldn't care

The Republican Party already has per last week.

Like clapping seals over homosexual marriage and bigger, more intrusive and punitive government.

And the booing of the Constitution because the man who uttered the words 'to vote for those who will uphold the Constitution' had the audacity to say 'vote your conscience' first.

Trump = Hillary's Trojan Stalking Horse

[HonestJohn]

@Frank Cannon

Trump is playing three-dimensional chess here!  And....something about Sun Tzu, or....yeah...

BTW, no Trump supporters have showed up yet?   

Sun Tzu is Chinese...  China's bad, m'kay.

Derp.

[RoosGirl]

He's only courting Bernie supporters and after the election he'll renege. 

MMMmmmm  MMMmmmm  MMMmmmm Donald J Trump

[JustPassinThru]

He's only courting Bernie supporters and after the election he'll renege. 

MMMmmmm  MMMmmmm  MMMmmmm Donald J Trump

After the election he'll have had his @ss handed to him.

Bern-ers are the Free Sh_t Army.  They're the ones de Tocqueville warned about, voting themselves largess out of the public coffers.   And when they can get a REAL radical who MEANS it, as opposed to someone who just wants applause for saying the right things...who they gonna vote for?

They hate Billary but it's not about popularity.  Billary equals MOAR FREE.

Trump, being stupid, ADHD and having neurological and psychiatric issues, doesn't get that.  He really thinks all the world is as simple as his bagman duties with Tammany politicians.  So...he's not getting it; not getting that he's not getting it; and not seeing the coming beating.

I could care less at this point.  To keep on using my ship analogy...what we heard last week, when Rinse Pubis was doing his thing shouting down the delegates who wanted a delegate roll-call on rules changes...what we heard there was the Titanic sliding over the iceberg, with the bottom of the engine room dropping off.

America is taking on the toxic waters of Marxism; and will soon founder.

[Frank Cannon]

Nooo....that is so yesterday.  I heard him say he loves China, but they are a bunch of cheats.

Did he say that using pigeon English and doing the slanty eye thing with his fingers and eyes?

[LMAO]

So increasing the cost of labor will create jobs how?

[JustPassinThru]

So increasing the cost of labor will create jobs how?

Why, they'll all rush out and BUY stuff!  Which will mean there'll be MOAR JOBS!

That's what Henry Ford did.  Gee, when I was a kid, we were taught that the $3-a-day wage, and then the $5/day wage, was to stabilize the workforce and stop high turnover.  NO...HENRY FORD WAS A SOCIALIST; and he knew that if he paid them that money, everyone would be able to buy new Fords.

These are people who probably try to get free electricity by plugging extension cord ends together.

[LMAO]

Friends,

The next four or eight years are going to be the toughest years for those of us who call ourselves conservative. There is going to be a lot of work and fighting and successes and setbacks. You have the Progressives in the GOP. You have the Chavez socialists in the Democrat Party. We're going to be forced to fight harder than we ever have

But it's a fight worth having. And if the Progressive Nationalists/Populists decide the GOP is the vessel for their new "Nationalists Revolution," then it's truly time for conservatives to part ways with the GOP.

The party of Goldwater, Coolidge, Reagan, is dead. It was Barry Goldwater's book that turned me to conservatism and the GOP. In 1980, I was an 18 year old in a local group working to get Reagan elected. Today, they couldn't pay me to do it

[LMAO]

Trump is playing three-dimensional chess here!  And....something about Sun Tzu, or....yeah...

BTW, no Trump supporters have showed up yet?   

If they do show up,their response will be along the lines, " you have to vote Trump or Hillary will get in."

[LMAO]

I agree.  Where are you going to go?   Constitution Party?

Who knows.

I've said that for now, I'm a never Trumper but it'll be up to Trump to soften my position and so far, he's failing.

Minimum wage hike? Why doesn't he go back the the party he once said he identified more as?

[JustPassinThru]

Who knows.

I've said that for now, I'm a never Trumper but it'll be up to Trump to soften my position and so far, he's failing.

Minimum wage hike? Why doesn't he go back the the party he once said he identified more as?

When there is nothing to choose between, there is no reason to choose.

Is there.