The Briefing Room
General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 03, 2014, 02:14:17 pm
-
http://leomcneil.net/2014/04/03/obama-talks-minimum-wage-over-13-99-reuben-sandwich/ (http://leomcneil.net/2014/04/03/obama-talks-minimum-wage-over-13-99-reuben-sandwich/)
Obama Talks Minimum Wage Over $13.99 Reuben Sandwich
Posted on April 3, 2014 by leomcneil1
Our post-partisan President reached a new low yesterday. Speaking at Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan he declared Paul Ryan’s budget a “stinkburger” or “meanwich.” Obama is apparently promoting an increase in the minimum wage. He went to Zingerman’s because they allegedly offer a “fair” wage. The left doesn’t seem to understand that a “fair” wage is whatever an employee agrees to work for. In other words, it isn’t determined by government bureaucrats or academics. That’s beside the point of course, we know Obama believes everything in our lives must be decided in Washington. The problem of course is that Zingerman’s isn’t the place to make this argument and the Paul Ryan budget is really not relevant to anything.
continued...
-
I wonder if the people demanding minimum wages for themselves realize their welfare status will go down or disappear?
-
I wonder if the people demanding minimum wages for themselves realize their welfare status will go down or disappear?
Much of the demand for higher minimum wage laws comes not from unskilled workers or poor people, but instead from wealthy elitists like Barack Obama.
By promoting "fairness", such people are able to assuage their false guilt or else demonstrate their phony compassion, utterly unaffected by the inevitable results, in this case: a loss of jobs and the acceleration of the automation of low-skill business processes.