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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Dakota"  wrote in message   
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   > On 3/1/2013 12:37 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >> Dakota  wrote in news:kgoj97$3ia$2@dont-email.me:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2/28/2013 3:17 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>> Dakota  wrote in   
   >>>> news:kgogqd$kkv$2@dont-email.me:   
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   >>>>> On 2/28/2013 12:59 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>>>> "Oglethorpe"  wrote in   
   >>>>>> news:afqdndyzd4BJJLPMnZ2dnUVZ_hmdnZ2d@mchsi.com:   
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   >>>>>>> "RD Sandman"  wrote in message   
   >>>>>>> news:XnsA17481612F33Ahopewell@216.196.121.131...   
   >>>>>>>> Jeanne Douglas  wrote in   
   >>>>>>>> news:hlwdjsd2-430D7E.01161627022013@news.giganews.com:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> In article   
   >>>>>>>>> ,   
   >>>>>>>>>     Jason@nospam.com (Jason) wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> In article ,   
   >>>>>>>>>> Jeanne Douglas  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> In article   
   >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> om> ,   
   >>>>>>>>>>>     Davej  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 26, 5:49 am, Kurt Nicklas    
   >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> the minimum wage by some paltry amt, Why not $100 per hour?>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Most "liberals" are socially liberal but are at the same time   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> fiscal conservatives.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> The President put it best:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Nobody who works hard 40 hours a week should live below the   
   >>>>>>>>>>> poverty line; therefore, the minimum wage should be high   
   >>>>>>>>>>> enough to achieve that.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> When I worked at Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppe, they raised   
   >>>>>>>>>> the minimum wage. The result was that the prices of all items   
   >>>>>>>>>> on the menu were raised so that Long John Silver's could pay   
   >>>>>>>>>> the higher wages.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> what is my point? It will cause inflation and a higher   
   >>>>>>>>>> unemployment rate since employers will not hire very many new   
   >>>>>>>>>> employees or expand their businesses.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Except that decades of data PROVES that this particular   
   >>>>>>>>> right-wing talking point is nothing but a lie.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Then you should have no problem producing some of that data,   
   >>>>>>>> Jeanne.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/02/27/inority-v   
   >>>>>>> iewb   
   >>>>>>> y-walter-e-williamsrelease-wednesday-february-27-2013-n1519819   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> It's called the wage-price spiral.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> Wages are the last ones to catch up.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sometimes.  But then when the wages go up so do the prices of the   
   >>>> goods and services you wish to buy because they now cost more to   
   >>>> produce.  Then your gain was only temporary.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Raising minimum wage affects a lot more people than just those at the   
   >>>> very bottom.   
   >>>>   
   >>> That's why it's called a spiral. One thing affects the other.   
   >>   
   >> Yep.   
   >>   
   > One difference is that higher wages create higher demand for products and   
   > service. Higher prices do not.   
      
   And do you think higher wages can occur without higher prices in the   
   products and services so as to pay for that higher wage?   
      
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