Wednesday, December 18, 2013

INSANE Socialist Seattle Council Member to Push $15 Minimum Wage

Socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant (CHAH'-mah SAH'-want) says she'll work to pass a $15 per hour minimum wage bill in Seattle in 2014. However, she says she's not yet ready to release details.

The Seattle Times reports that Sawant told a Tuesday news conference she doesn't think Mayor-elect Ed Murray's campaign promise to get to a $15 minimum wage by the end of his term is a sufficiently fast timetable.

At her news conference, she was surrounded by the economically clueless, who don't understand that minimum wages cause unemployment, and crony union officials who benefit from a high minimum wage. She said a website for a $15 minimum wage campaign would launch Jan. 2 at 15Now.org,  and said she wants to hear from people across the city. She was joined at the City Hall news conference by a leader of the SEIU 775 NW caregivers union, a fast food worker, an analyst from the NAACP, and a local pastor.

(Via SF Chronicle)

14 comments:

  1. Why stop at $15? Time to go whole hog. Make it $150 per hour. They'll all be fabulously wealthy!

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  2. Somebody needs to go to that City Hall meeting (Ignoramus Fest) and tell them that they should raise the minimum wage to $30/hr. Perhaps even get the whole crowd going "What do we want? 30! When do we want it? Now!" I just want to see how far stupidity can be taken in one shot.

    - JS

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  3. Why $15? Why not go for $20 or $30? The beauty of Capitalism is that there is always a means to deal with the rent seeking policies of the Socialists. Say hello to your new $15/hr worker at McDonalds. http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/mcdts.jpg

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  4. From 9.00 dollars to 15.
    That ought to be just enough to take away any subsidy for that "free" Obamacare.
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    For those who expect the government to help you.........remember this,
    If you insist on being stupid, ya better be tough. ...and healthy.

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  5. Yes she is insane, and exactly what the people who voted for her should get.

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  6. In our world the 'true believers' have always walked on the heads of those they claim to be saving. Socialists simply believe their faith, which is to say that government violence can bring about a better world if only they had their turn to apply that power. They truly think it works, that they are the only ones pure enough to use government power wisely. Of all the faiths that exist no one ever points a finger to the most predominant faith in our world: it is government and it is scientifically false. It's 'churches' and 'missionaries' are everywhere; their followers tide their offerings in votes and taxation. Those who believe in peace, property and liberty are heritcs.

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    1. Yeah. BTW, it's always so funny to listen to the Idiot Left when they rail against those who do "Christian preaching" and how "dogmatic" it is and so on. Yet they're no different. They not only "preach" with their "dogma" but also ENFORCE it through the barrel of a gun. Man, talk about hypocrites! But you see, it's all for our own good. How is this any different than medieval Christianity? LOL!

      People of whatever beliefs need to get off this "I'm going to cage you, kill you, or torture you for your own good" mentality. "You will believe what I say or you're dead meat", and so on. It's pathetic. If the little hussy wants socialism why can't she just move to one of the many socialist countries out there instead of infecting EVERY DAMNED one of them with her parasitic religion?

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    2. Took the words out of my mouth.

      -TKS

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  7. If we could burn human stupidity in our cars and to heat our homes, we would have limitless reserves of virtually free energy!

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  8. When you oppose a higher minimum wage, it sounds like you want people to make less. It sounds heartless. I know it destroys jobs, so we need a way to say it that doesn't sound heartless. Maybe calling it a wage floor?

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    1. Maybe people who call for a higher minimum wage just need to grow a brain and stop thinking like a 14 year old girl during PMS.

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    2. I like calling it "mandatory unemployment."

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    3. When someone asked me if I had ever tried living on minimum wage, I asked them if they have ever tried living on $0. Mandatory unemployment is accurate. People have a hard time understanding "purchasing" labor, so it's also good to compare it to buying things. If you raise the price of your car wash, will you get more requests for a car wash or less? Same with labor. And the reduced requests affect the very people you thought you were helping.

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  9. It seems to me most of these REALLY bad economic ideas keep popping up because there is such an immaculate misunderstanding into what capitalism actual is. People can't even correctly define what they are so maliciously attacking. (I was once guilty of having this mindset. I just simply regurgitated the common misconceptions I heard in the echo chamber of collegiate life.) This trend in academia and politics to find whatever displeasures or evils we face in the world, and then automatically blame it on free-market laisez-faire capitalism is fascinating to me. Also the fact that said misconceptions are ALWAYS repeated over and over agian, no matter how many times they've been proved horribly wrong throughout history.

    -Montana

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