What kind of leadership do we see today in Black America?
What can be said for an NAACP that was lately demanding a Justice Department investigation of a rodeo clown running around a bull ring in rural Missouri in an Obama mask, but cannot find its voice to address a black-on-white atrocity in Middle America?
When Trayvon Martin was shot to death in a murky incident in Sanford, Fla., Jesse Jackson rushed there to declare: Blacks are under attack. Killing us is big business. Trayvon was shot down in cold blood by a vigilante murdered and martyred.
After Chris Lanes cold-blooded murder, Jesse tweeted: This sort of thing is to be frowned upon.
If I had a son, said President Obama, he would have looked like Trayvon; 35 years ago, I could have been Trayvon. Can the president not find his voice to speak to the parents of Chris Lane?
Since Lyndon Johnson took office, 50 years ago, we have spent trillions on his programs for health care, housing, education, food stamps, welfare and civil rights. Are we living in that Great Society we were promised?
The death of Trayvon was said to be reflective of the real America, a country where black folks live in constant fear of white vigilantes and white racist cops. What nonsense.
In the real America, interracial violence is overwhelmingly black-on-white. Even if the media will not report it, everybody knows it.
So, yesterday, while cruising Instapundit in the five minutes between penguins (I use a penguin timer instead of a tomato for the Pomodoro Technique. Deal.) I came across a thing where fast food workers were threatening to strike.
It's all dishonest. Wages as posted don't include the employers portion of social security, or unemployment and workers comp that the employer has to pay, not counting additional specific local fees and taxes tacked on. It's long beyond time in which all those fees go directly to the workers pay stub, so the worker can see what their labor is actually being paid for and how much the government really eats of it.
What P2K said, and also to pay people to prepare those wages, and then tax man paperwork, nevermind the good minds dinking around with paperwork instead of growing/innovating.
Cost of a new home: $26,600.00
Cost of a new car: $
Median Household Income: $8,734.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.62
Cost of a gallon of Milk: 1.15
Cost of a new home: $271,600
Cost of a new car: $30,303
Median Household Income: $52,762
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.46
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $3.60
Cost of a dozen eggs: $2.68
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $3.43
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The problem is that minimum wage is a starting wage because you have no skills yet and no proof you are dendable. Huge risk to hire you. High school kids should be getting it on their part time jobs not people with families who should still be that low on the career ladder.
My guess is anyone in their twenties or more on minimum wage isn't treating the job as a career and their employee responds accordingly, either that or they have something else going on (problems with citizenship papers or addiction).
The great thing is the left forces minimum wage increases in on us and at the same time promotes illegal immigration who work outside of the wage and safety laws so they undercut the people they are trying to help with the minimum wage in the first place. But few are watching the left hand so they get away with it.
Had a friend who bragged about being part of the underground economy, said he made so much more that way - his wages were not taxed, got paid in cash so no paper trail, and filed his paperwork for unemployment so got that too along with all the other bene's.
Your true "pay" isn't what shows up after taxes, or even what show up before taxes, on your W-2. Your true pay is whatever it costs your employer to create and continue your job.
This includes W-2 PLUS all of the mandated benefits PLUS all the mandated training PLUS all the regulatory compliance for the alphabet agencies at federal, state, and local levels.
Factor those, plus the inflation you mention, in, and I can guarantee that the total cost for an employer to maintain that job with today's minimum wage is no less than it was back in 1970. In fact it might be more.
How do I know? I own a business. I know.
And if you really want to get technical, the true minimum wage is whatever welfare recipients get (the amount the government pays you NOT to work). Think about it for a minute and you'll see the truth of it.
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What no mo uro said. But, also, how do you think your employer is gonna pay for your raise? He's gonna raise his prices, that's how. How else would he do it? You think he's gonna take a cut in the business's profits? Nope. He's not running a charity, he's running a business...for profit, for money. And if he can't make a profit, guess what? You'll be unemployed!
But wait. There's more. When you get that extra money you're gonna want to buy more stuff. Now, of course you know what happens when there is more demand for more stuff. Do I have to say it? Maybe I do. Prices go up! IOW, inflation.
#13
Minimum wage depresses startups. That's because it increases the distance between $0 per hour and minumum $ per hour.
When I was a tad you could get a shoeshine for a quarter (my Dad could get one for a dime, if he had a dime). The minimum wage went up to a buck an hour sometime around 1956. If I had gone into business as a shoeshine boy I'd have had to shine four pairs of shoes an hour at .25 to make minimum wage. There aren't any shoeshine boys left because at $7.25 per hour it's physically impossible to shine that many pairs of shoes. (29 pairs per hour, or one pair every two minutes.)
Remember when you could get a haircut for a buck? If you're old enough, you can remember those thrilling days of yesteryear. We went to the Waltz brothers, who had a shop on main street. Ozzie and Walt maintained two barber chairs and made a good living, cutting better than a head of hair apiece every hour for eight hours a day, closed on Monday and, of course, on Sunday. Barber shops have mostly been replaced by Shoppes de Beautè now, and if you can get your hair cut for $5 you can expect to come out looking... interesting.
Think of all the eentsy-weentsy one-man or -woman service industries, all the barely-skilled jobs in business, that have gone the way of the dodo, and blame their loss on the minimum wage and its accompanying regulation and mandatory benefits. The dressmakers are gone. The telephone operators are gone. Certainly the cooks and the maids are gone. And slowly the office boys, the secretaries, and the mail room clerks have gone.
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So what should be the minimum wage ? I say $16.00
I say $0.01 an hour. If that's all you have to offer the employer, too bad, so sad.
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They're doing that, too. Who makes more? Someone making miniwage or an unpaid intern?
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#16
Nearly all [if not all] gov't involvement in business is a disincentive to free market enterprise and growth.
#17
I was talking to a retired business manager the other day; she said that she made a pittance compared to her workers, because if she paid herself what she was worth, she wouldn't be able to pay the wages for the help.
I had an employee who couldn't do basic math. Checking out was frustrating to watch. Z out took 30 minutes (takes me 5 when on my own). Didn't want to clean, was aweful when she did (had to re-do her work). She was worth about $4 an hour, at best, how she made it through life I have no idea - wait, yes I do, she was public sector beforehand and never learned that her wage began with the customer.
People who work fast food have the easiest part of getting the burger in your tummy. They do not have to be out in the middle of winter to birth the cow, they do not have to do the dirty work to make a steer, do not have to raise the cow healthy, do not have to do the butcher, do not have to load or unload. They take a pre-formed patty put it on a monitored grill and take it off when the timer dings.
But they want a big thank you for not spitting on your food.
When I go to a local place for a burger I expect to pay more for a hand-made patty o'love. If I go to a joint and pay hand made prices for a pre-formed slopped together, I stop going because I can get that or better at the fast food for half the price.
Overpaid wages are a business killer. Double the wages of everyone who touches that patty to the grill and two things happen: prices go up and/or places shut down.
The rise of the food cars is a symptom. Certainly convienence is a factor, but with fewer regulations, taxes, and staff compared to a restaurant the overhead can be better managed. Big lunch boxes may have franchise assistance available, depending upon how the franchise would want to mitigate losses in favor of opportunity, but Joe's Diner has to convince the bank and doesn't get the nifty advertising during the football game or the easy traffic routes.
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*Apologies to any readers who take offense to the public sector comment, I know many here do good work. To be specific, school cafeteria worker. She had no opportunity to fail, so she had no opportunity to succeed, and thought her wages grew in Friday envelopes.
In fact, thinking about it, attitudes changed from simply changing payday from Friday to Monday. Same money, actually more because they proved their worth and dedication, just different tides.
#19
Minimum wage tells American workers that they are legally prohibited from competing with workers in other countries. That's why you can't buy a computer that's Made in USA anymore. It's cheaper to make them in China so they are all made in China and the people who used to make them in American are either out of work or had to find other jobs. Maybe they're flipping burgers.
#20
The problem is that minimum wage is a starting wage because you have no skills yet and no proof you are de[pe]ndable
Minimum wage also factors into union salary. Contracts contain an agreement that the 'wage floor' is a multiple of whatever the minimum wage is. It's a nice way of getting an increase without having to renegotiate a contract.
Source Minimum Wage is $1.60 - no I remember $1.35
Cost of a new car: $ 2 grand for a regular car 4.5 for a caddy.
Median Household Income: $8,734.00 depends on locale .. midwest maybe more toward 6-8k
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36 NO .....
Regular as low as .25 and real premium (today's racing octane) about .27 to .30 *
#25
But economics is a science, which means its something that studies nature to discover its laws. This means our laws cannot change nature. You cant legislate economics, any more than you can legislate the weather.
2 + 2 = 4 is a scientific fact. You can legislate all you want, you can complain all you want that 2 + 2 should equal 3 or 5, but the reality of life is that 2 + 2 will always equal 4. It is a law of nature beyond our ability change.
In business accounting the left side of the equation must always equal right side of the equation. The total debits must always equal the total credits or something is malignant in the accounting process.
The Obama team from long before Obama was elected POTUS has strived to deceive the American public into believing economics and sociology are the same thing. They are not. The deception is what Sarah A. Hoyt calls ethoeconomics.
Economics is the scientific study of sound business priciples. It is NOT sociology. Economics is not sociology and sociology is not economics. Any attempt to co-mingle the two will invariably result in a malignant outcome from both the human and the business perspective.
As Sarah A. Hoyt points out, the employees receiving minumum wages probably did not take economics in college. And if they did it was likely to have been the chimera of ethoeconomics and not science.
Only one out of seven start-up business in the U.S. survive beyond five years. The vast majority fail due to of lack of positive cash flow within the business. Although they may be financially secure they simply run out of liquid assets to meet their daily expenses. Increasing the minimum wage will be the final straw that puts a great many of them out of business.
Anyone who has ever ran a business knows it is the size of the numbers on bottom row the company's balance sheet and income statement that determines what wages can be. Not the sociological complaints eminating from the backrooms of the business or screamed from the front pages and screens of the left wing dominated media.
[Dawn] INITIAL reports about the busting of an illegal telephone exchange in Lahore that was allegedly facilitating Al Qaeda once again highlight the dependence of foreign hard boy networks on local groups. In fact, the bully boyz cannot operate without these franchises and affiliates -- worryingly, present even in urban centres. The official response to the advice to identify these local networks has been lacking in consistency. Crackdowns have been few and restricted to jerky, superficial searches often aimed at stereotypical suspects. Thus the raid on the exchange working under the grand global title of International Technical Hub is an occasion for putting the country's security and intelligence network on the path to a longer, deeper involvement in a task which can only be delayed at great risk to the public.
It is too early to say what the Lahore exchange raid signifies in the context of the war against terrorism. Conclusions are tough to draw since many questions need to be answered first. In Punjab, where the government is accused of showing leniency towards hard boys, could this discovery prove to be a turning point? Or, is it a warning to demonstrate what the intelligence agencies are capable of achieving if Pak bully boyz do not heed the latest government call for dialogue? Just as it has become difficult to separate Punjab from the centre after the establishment of the PML-N governments in both Lahore and Islamabad, many observers are inclined to establish a link between Monday evening's call for negotiations by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Tuesday morning's raid on the telephone exchange. It is not so much the evidence that the material -- reportedly, thousands of SIM cards -- seized in the raid may provide but how the government wants to engage with the bully boyz which will decide the future course of any official action.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... the absence of action by Pak authorities has been used to justify a certain series of Pakistain-related steps by the US -- from drone attacks to the latest incident in which Washington has declared a madressah in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. a terrorist outfit. While no doubt this designation will -- and should -- put pressure on the Pak authorities to investigate closely the madressah's purported links with banned groups, the reasons the US has given for this move are not sufficient. More explanation is required on how the seminary was training groups as different in their approaches and designs as Taliban and Al Qaeda on the one hand and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... on the other. Clarity is needed on all fronts in the war against terrorism.
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More explanation is required on how the seminary was training groups as different in their approaches and designs as Taliban and Al Qaeda on the one hand and Lashkar-e-Taiba on the other.
So that the model can be applied elsewhere?
Clarity is needed on all fronts in the war against terrorism.
Because that will allow seminaries and other enablers to modify their behavior and methods to avoid detection.
[Huffpo] Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) warned The Champ is "getting perilously close" to the standard for impeachment.
That's nice. Nothing will happen so long as the Democrats control the Senate. And nothing will happen afterward, so long as some of the Senatorial Republicans are Rhinos. So really, this kind of talk is nothing more than playing to the Base, making implicit promises that can't be kept. Something like our beloved president talking about red lines, in fact.
According to Tulsa World, Coburn referred to the president as "a personal friend of mine" before criticizing Champ's "lawless" administration while speaking during a Wednesday town hall meeting at Oklahoma's Muskogee Convention Center.
BuzzFeed reports Coburn said impeachment is "not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means," noting that he feels there is a great deal of "incompetence" in the Champ regime.
"I think there's some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there's a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions," Coburn said.
"Those are serious things, but we're in a serious time," Coburn continued. "I don't have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they're getting perilously close."
#2
The election of The Champ was a capstone event in the social imperative of affirmative action. Impeachment of the Champ is about as likely as a national monument to Lee being built on the Mall.
#3
Impeachment of the Champ is about as likely as a national monument to Lee being built on the Mall
At the west end of The Mall is a bridge, the Memorial Bridge, at the end of the journey over that bridge sits a building called the Robert E. Lee Memorial. That memorial is Robert E. Lee's home and surrounding that home is Arlington National Cemetery.
Close but not quite The Mall
So it is possible but highly unlikely both events will take place. Never say Never.
#7
Impeachment? Hope and change I could believe in. However, it won't happen. The Democrats are not going to do it and the Pubs aren't either. I just don't see Boehner initiating this.
#8
With a backdrop of recent urban violence, imagine the firestorm impeachment proceedings might ignite. The appeasement and extortion have gone on far, far too long. The feckless old guard of French Republicans in congress have no appetite for civil uprising. Impeachment is highly unlikely.
A must read (IMO) guess post from "According to Hoyt
...Sarah tells me shes had quite a lot of heat from the left. Im very happy for her. If the enemy isnt screaming, you arent fighting properly. Besides, I know the Huns and Hoydens love their chew toys and get downright rambunctious without them. That includes me, really. So while we have your attention, you teachers pets out of the Frankfurt School, lets have a little chat about the cool kids in your class.
See, its often said that the head of a company defines its culture. The leader is the person people associate with that organization, especially the employees. Whether the leader causes the organization to imitate them, or alternatively, imitates organizational ideals to rise to power, varies. In many ways, this chicken-and-egg problem is not important, because either way, the leader would still be indicative of how the organization is arranged. But it occurs to me that, when you get right down it, political parties are basically large corporations. One wonders naturally, therefore, who are the leaders that pattern your organization, leftists? (And I anticipate naturally that you will object to being associated with a corporation. But its true regardless, so none of that prissy proletarian pap out of you, Democrats, Socialists, and Communists. You, and your big shiny DNC, are the people who put Mr. Billion-Dollar-Campaign in office, remember? Youve got just as many expensive donors George Soros, for one, who is about as grassroots as a bromeliad (and not nearly as pretty). Or how about the laundry list of high-rollers Obama was busy partying with during campaign season the multi-thousand-per-plate dinners, you remember those? You ought to. One of those parties in Las Vegas was more important to Obama than deploying forces already in the area of Benghazi to stop our ambassador from being raped and killed. Ah, but I forget you are compassionate, and so by your own definition no longer need to worry about the mere unnecessary loss of human life. Not if theres money to be fed into your machine on the line. But I digress.)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Nawaz Sharif
