Good news for a change. This law would have increased minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $10.10/hour over 30 months. The congressional budget office estimated. 500,000 jobs would have been lost. I wonder how many businesses would have closed also? Wages should never be artificially inflated above the intrinsic wage value for a job. If an individual chooses not to gain a skill set that allows them to earn a good living that is their problem, not yours or mine.

How are they supposed to afford ObamaCare now..?? 😕

We are already paying for it for them.

But government contractors still got their raise!!!

The Dems don't care now ... but you can be sure to bet it will be a theme during the elections . . .

There goes my raise,....[-(

I though you had a pen and a phone ? ?

Two turntables and a microphone? 🍺

Where it's at..?? 🤣

Great to hear. Now, let's get back to normal. The ethic is called a desire to get an education either/or go to work. Government will probably buy you a push mower so go for it. DESIRE is what it's about.

We're paying for the free programs, so take advantage of education instead of sitting on your butt 'awaiting the next free load paid for by the others.

Minimum wage should be lowered.

If somebody wants a higher paying job, they should go out and learn a skill.

California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, one her party’s most progressive members, thinks her home state should increase its minimum wage to as much as $26 an hour.

Lee said a few days ago on CNN’s “Crossfire” that she likes the mayor of Seattle’s proposal to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, then said she would support such a plan in California without fear of increasing unemployment.

"In California, more than likely from what I remembered, a living wage where people could live and take care of their families and move toward achieving the American dream was about $25, $26 an hour," she told co-host Newt Gingrich, a former GOP House speaker and presidential candidate, as reported by Breitbart.com.

The high cost of living and taxes in California forcing some residents and businesses to leave is well known, with Toyota officially announcing last week its departure for Texas.

Maryland and other liberal-leaning states have recently increased their minimum-wage rates. However, many Republicans and other fiscal conservatives have argued such an increase would result in companies hiring fewer workers. And just last week, the Senate rejected a plan backed by President Obama and fellow Democrats to increase the federal minimum wage.

Appearing with Lee on “Crossfire,” Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., said he also would back such a huge wage hike in California -- so the lost jobs will go to Maryland and other states across the country

Film at 11.... 🤐 🤐

WHAT THE FUQ IS SHE SMOKING IN CALI???
From what she remembers??? From when??? She's obviously a silver-spooner that never worked a minimum wage job in her life.

Kill the poor before they kill us.

I've always been a states' rights guy. But, IMO, the Republicans are making a mistake here. If the feds do nothing at all, more and more states and cities are going to do really stupid ish, Like $25/hr in California, or $16/hr in Seattle. Now, maybe it is best to stand back and watch Seattle become West Detroit - teach them all a lesson?.....But I don't think so. Not yet, anyway.

With the obscene wage gap between employees and CEO's it takes the GOP to block progress. And it takes the poorly informed American conservative middle class back them up.

It's the current portrait of America; with corporate welfare and white-collar crime at all time high, we all sit around and talk about how the enemy is the guy drawing welfare because works 40 hours a week at Walmart.

The shrewdest thing we could do is to make sure that the low class working stiff earns a decent living and lubricates the economy with the coin he turns. But that's not the way for the rich to get richer is it?

ya, what the hell... we'll all pay 10 bucks for a happy meal right..?? 😕

I admire your farsighted vision of economics.
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as good as it may sound to the minimum wage worker a whole bunch of them will find themselves unemployed... small business owners will work 18 hour days until they throw in da towel and go to work for Walmart... if there's an opening.... 😟

As CEO, President, and single slave for a company I own I can tell you that employees are given and afforded more free programs to better their earning abilities and quality of life than my company is. As a business owner, all I get is the freakin tax bill! It's because of taxes, unemployment "insurance", and healthcare costs that we no longer hire employees, only sub-contractors.