"i haven't said anything about brad and his theory on global warming (and have no idea what it is or what you are talkin bout) so this is just red herring rhetoric...."
I missed a theory on pirates and global warming. Ok now I've heard that wow. Couldn't have done without my fall down 15 flights of stairs laugh for the day. Almost got hit with a bus on my way out the lobby.
Hey I've got a theory about farts underwater causing cheese to taste better eaten after midnight anybody wanna hear about it anybody anybody?
"maybe the combo of raising wages and lowering taxes is the way to go...more money in people's pockets, and more receits could mean more tax revenue."
Yeah at the risk of overheating the economy or causing needless inflation with no real economic growth.
"who's to say our next big industry boom isn't just around the corner"
nano technology
"It's like someone demanding proof of gravity."
Well lets here your theory on that. Does it involve pirates?
"You're kidding, right? Or are you so deluded that....oh, nevermind. It's not worth my time or energy."
Smart beyond her years. Do you have a phone number?
"In the past week, I have found myself in agreement with people I never thought possible, cacto, Dan Greene, shadesofgrey, Loca, Sean on another topic...and now I have the final proof I need."
Really?
"No one can look at that and claim that unemployment is going down in 90, 91, 92, OR 93. It doesn't even recover until 95, and it doesn't drop to the levels you are talking about until the dot com boom created millions of jobs."
Hmmm according the chart just above the post it appears that the % peaks in the summer of 92 and starts a steady downtrend in fall 92 Winter 93. By 1995, the unemployment rate is down 2% off the peak and stays largely there until 2 years later.
Maybe we are looking at different numbers or maybe you are mentally incapable of distinguishing the meaning of integers or perhaps just mentally incapable in general.
Perhaps a chart would help. Open excel, copy and paste, click ok, look for the line that begins to fall in summer of 92, watch it continue to fall until 1997.
"Maybe someone here can explain to me how exactly will $7.25 will somehow get me out of poverty?... I work 2 jobs. On my day job, full-time, I earn $11 an hour. On my night job, part-time, I earn $10 an hour..."
You don't live in poverty.
"...but I can't live without satellite or Internet."
Can't and won't are two different things. "Can't" is living without food or water, "won't" is living without satellite or internet.
"But if the Democrats are gonna argue that this is to help the poor, hows about they do a real minimum wage hike? Hows about $10 an hour?"
Giving people more power then they have too, to get your vote isn't what they got elected for. Doubling the minimum wage would have adverse effects on the economy, because that would be a dumping of money into a market, and effectively lower prices a very great degree. Inflation would definitely be very much more pronounced then going from $5.15 to $7.25. The degree is due to the number of people working between $5.15-$7.25 vs $5.15-$10.00.
Many more people would be making much more money. Many more businesses would be unable to support that many more employees on payrolls.
"The reality of life is $7.25 an hour is not a wage to support a family..."
Then the obvious choice is don't have kids when you cannot afford to provide for them.
"especially when both parents have to work at these wages in order to actually make enough"
Employment is at will in this nation, nobody is forcing you to work, if you want to eat, want to drive, want to participate then great if not, nobody forces you to do so. Nobody also forces you to stay in a minimum wage job. Educate yourself, build skills, market your abilities, and you can secure employment well above minimum wage.
"...children alone at home or having to pay a ton in childcare which I see no point if one of them is working just to pay someone else."
Everybody has to make sacrifices, in economics, it's called opportunity costs. Having both parents work, means during the time they work the cost of that, is the opportunity to be at home with their kids. For some families the opportunity of having a parent in the home outweighs the value of working during that time.
"Education is the key to success in life, not more money for the same skills."
An excellent point.
"How is a minimum wage hike, whether it's to $7.25 or even, as you suggested, $10.00 an hour going to help the poor when the majority of them aren't even working in the first place?"
It isn't, why would we need to help them by raising minimum wage if they don't fucking work? Are you a turnip or why do you ask stupid questions like that? Obviously the idea is to raise the minimum wage of working people not those that choose not to work.
"I've got an idea. Why don't we raise minimum wage to $100 an hour?" LOL. Yeah, like Whip's ideas for saving the Samoans from a pitiful life in poverty.
