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Old 01-01-2014, 10:04 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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"This is the question the right has to answer. Do you want smaller government with less handouts, or do you want a low minimum wage? Because you cannot have both. If Colonel Sanders isn't going to pay the lady behind the counter enough to live on, then Uncle Sam has to, and I for one am getting a little tired of helping highly profitable companies pay their workers.: ~ Bill Maher



Bill Maher Minimum Wage New Rules 10/25/2013 - YouTube
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:07 AM
 
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"This is the question the right has to answer. Do you want smaller government with less handouts, or do you want a low minimum wage? Because you cannot have both. If Colonel Sanders isn't going to pay the lady behind the counter enough to live on, then Uncle Sam has to, and I for one am getting a little tired of helping highly profitable companies pay their workers.: ~ Bill Maher


Bill Maher Minimum Wage New Rules 10/25/2013 - YouTube
So what you're saying is increasing the minimum wage, has caused more government handouts..

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Old 01-01-2014, 10:08 AM
 
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Wrong!! It is big government creating the wealth gap. If the government was not providing those at the top with billions and billions in welfare there would not be the gap or the current rising prices we are facing.

Oil is at $100 only because of the money the government is pumping into the markets. Supply is up and demand is down but yet price is up.
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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So either make employers hand out money or the government hand out money.
Either way you sound like you are for just "handing out money".
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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So what you're saying is increasing the minimum wage, has caused more government handouts..

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No wonder the republicans get elected and Limbaugh actually has people who listen to him.

Just
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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So either make employers hand out money or the government hand out money.
Either way you sound like you are for just "handing out money".
You do realize those people are called working employees so pay checks aren't considered handouts.
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:11 AM
 
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Isn't raising federal minimum wage also help from Uncle Sam?
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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When the government spends 1/3 of total GDP, and half of that is funny money, there can't possibly be equilibrium.

That's the liberal quagmire.
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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So either make employers hand out money or the government hand out money.
Either way you sound like you are for just "handing out money".
I vote for employers to hand out money to their employees who have earned it.
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Old 01-01-2014, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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You do realize those people are called working employees so pay checks aren't considered handouts.
It seems they don't. That is the scary part. They have been brain-washed to be against themselves!!
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