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It’s no wonder people, couldn’t meet their obligations, and lost homes etc. I was over whelmed at the thought that a man who owns 7 homes would deny the working poor a small hike in minimum wages. 19 times?
It’s a pretty dumb thing when we see everything going up, but a workers pay check, and some of you feel thats a good discission made to keep honest working people earnings far below the cost of living, Even pay increases are put on non working Families welfare checksevery year, and if they have another child, more is added.WAKE-UP and Wise up AMERICA.
Wowie! Go back to school, and learn about the Slaves who helped build this country with their Blood, Sweat and tears, they worked before the sun came up until long after the sun went down. what was their pay? your little work in agriculture is nothing to compare to those great people who had no education, no love. no respect. no Family. especially if you are an immigrant of the 70’s up to now, you’ve done nothing here in this country to brag about. This Country was already built before you were born, that’s why you came here to enjoy the many benefits of our country! you should be ashamed to try to make me or any people think yourself to be any better than the Black Slaves who built this country free! America was built on the backs of Black Slaves young and old, even babies was separated from their mothers and sold. their pay was a whip and rope,often their bodies covered with tar and feathers and burned alive to the stake, for any, or no reason at all, that was their appreciation
By the way, all of you who thinks a mini wage hike would be bad for the ecconomy. Well,.. there had been no increase given in the minimum for almost 2 decades, So what is your excuse for all of the inflation, we have been faced within the last 20 some years.
By the way, all of you who thinks a mini wage hike would be bad for the ecconomy. Well,.. there had been no increase given in the minimum for almost 2 decades, So what is your excuse for all of the inflation, we have been faced with within the last 20 some years? In other words, all of these woes ,some of you said will happen if there is an increase in minimum wages, but all of terribleThese things have occured any way, while there was no wage increase given by our Gov, Why?

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Selfish, old, rich, white guy connected to the corporate lobbyists like nobody else. Why would you expect him to care about people?

A.R. | Sep 07, 2008

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GOOD.

He is not for that communist minimum wage. Once he becomes President he will PASS Bush/McCain Amnesty for Illegal Aliens which will legalize 20 million illegals! This will be a great new labor pool that will work for LESS and not have the OUTRAGEOUS health insurance and other benefit demand of the liberal middle and working classes. They will work cheaper for NO BENEFITS!!!

Aren’t you SICK of the liberal middle and working classes bashing our President Bush and our John McCain/Sarah Palin!?!

Let the market set the wages, no more of that democrat socialism and communism! Let the liberal middle and working classes EAT CAKE.

Voted BUSH TWICE. Will vote McCain/Palin TWICE to destroy the liberal middle class once and for all!
subwm4bush | Sep 07, 2008

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Like he’s an elitist hypocrite.

Check out this horrifying article about Sarah Palin.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/ alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-p alin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictiv e-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
Sophie P | Sep 07, 2008

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Raising the minimum wage is actually a bad idea. Although you may think i am crazy, economics proves it actually can have worse affects on the economy.

read this….
Macy | Sep 07, 2008

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Terrible!!! But I knew already, that’s why I’m voting for Obama/Biden. McCain also voted against more funding for Vets, can you believe that?
PRLadyDama | Sep 07, 2008

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His record of voting AGAINST veterans….and not even bothering to show up to vote on most veterans bills… is more damaging and disgusting.
tickled blue | Sep 07, 2008

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He’s a republican, it doesnt surprise me. GOP’s want to rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, a very dysfunctional way of thinking.
Tina | Sep 07, 2008

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I FEEL FANTASTIC!

great decision by McCain
Liberal Youth Breed Hate | Sep 07, 2008

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I think the free market should dictate wages and prices.

People fail to realize that a lot of our woes are from the government trying to overregulate the free market.

This is an old democrat class warfare trick.
Mr Krinkle | Sep 07, 2008

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I think it’s irresponsible. Especially with the prices of everything going up.
Centauri | Sep 07, 2008

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You do understand that under basic economics if you raise the minimum wage the domino effect says it raises the cost of everything back up over the minimum wage and you end up WORSE off?
Right?

McCain08 | Sep 07, 2008

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well what do you expect from the party of the millionares and billionares

how else are they going to earn those 7 homes, by working for it? They need the lower and working class to work and suffer as much as possible so they can get more money for themselves
k | Sep 07, 2008

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Awesome!

It means that employers will go out an hire people again because min wage eliminates jobs. Look what happens when gas goes to high. People stop buying so when wages become to much businesses cut jobs.
thetimbosley | Sep 07, 2008

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People did not lose their homes because of minimum wage. People lost their homes because the Big Companies gave them Adjustable Mortgage Rates, and when those adjusted mortgages adjusted ten years later - payments couldn’t be made. Stupidity on the part of the lenders and the buyers.

Also, higher minimum wage = job losses and higher costs of production and shipping, which means the cost of everything goes up, up, up! and job losses increase.

Read your Economics homework before making a stupid statement like you did.

My bank didn’t even offer an Adjustable loan to us - we got only Fixed rates. We still have our house and our cars. Want the government to give you more?

Try working.

Go back to your "Beauty and style" section sweetheart.
Wowie | Sep 07, 2008

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he did that because raising the minimum wage doesnt work. you raise the minimum wage, companies just raise their prices, or worse downsize.

don’t believe me? check the before and after results of the minimum wage being raised.
Ask Andy | Sep 07, 2008

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you ever tried running a business? didn’t think so.
Col Kilgore | Sep 07, 2008

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when you raise minimum wage a lot of the "minimum" people get fired…..
tabbi8407 | Sep 07, 2008

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Good. It is a certain cause for inflation across the whole economy. Clue. People on minimum wage do not own houses.
wiemercats | Sep 07, 2008

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You realize that raising minimum wage does nothing overall right? People that make more than minimum wage don’t get a raise when minimum wage goes up (I know this from experience). It devalues working hard if minimum wage goes up every few years.
Liberal Kool-Aid | Sep 07, 2008

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About the same way that I feel about him repeatedly voting against military and Veterans’ benefits - and then trying to hide the fact.

Not too happy about that…
Don P - Keeping 'em Honest | Sep 07, 2008

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It is typical of him and his party.
Rotten to the core.
aurorah | Sep 07, 2008

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Like it’s a non-issue, since most states have a minimum wage above the national one anyway.
God's Reporter | Sep 07, 2008

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States should set their own minimum wages. Ours is always higher than the federal government’s, but I understand why they have to keep it lower in the federal government–different states have different economies. State officials should respond to the will of their constituents based on the region’s needs, not what the Federal government dictates.
luv2bfit | Sep 07, 2008

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That’s a good thing if you believe in push and pull inflation like I do. If the business has to pay its workers more, then it will charge more for the products it sells. So even if they get raises they will now have to pay more for goods. Then they cry they aren’t making enough money so again a new amount is given and the prices go even higher.
gregory_dittman | Sep 07, 2008

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Prove it! And did you know that Obama is a Muslim,and that has already been proven in his Book!
greyeagle | Sep 07, 2008

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Shouldn’t that tell you something.It tells me that McCain "Doesn’t get it" and is out of touch with the middle & Lower classes! also voted against G.I.Bill for Troops & Veterans! What a "Patriot".

Obama/Biden 2008!
Ebony & Ivory Presidency!
slyham166 | Sep 07, 2008

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At least he voted on something instead of just voting "present." You gotta love all these little teenage girls who think they understand how the economy works…how sad.
saq428 | Sep 07, 2008

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A person making minimum wage has no business trying to buy a home!

The vast majority of people working for minimuum wage are teenagers. If you are a grown man with a family working at minimum wage, you need to take inventory of your life & try to find out why you haven’t managed to pull yourself out of that hole!

Do you not understand that only a very small number of people work at minimum wage? And if it raised, then businesses will be forced to either hire fewer workers, or raise prices!

Smarty Kat | Sep 07, 2008

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I’m fine with it. If you’re making minimum wage, you shouldn’t be buying a home. The people who cause the problems are the ones who think that owning their own home is a right, or sort of entitlement, when its not. The problem is that people making minimum wage have chosen not to try to advance their lives in any meaningful way. When the minimum wage gets raised for essentially an uneducated workforce, it penalizes those of us who decided to go out and work hard. I make well above minimum wage, but that gap has gotten closed to a degree over the years. I’ve essentially been penalized for getting an education and working hard. People making minimum wage have two choices- accept the squalor they have to live in and make the best of it, or get off their ass and take steps to make more money. Raising minimum wage cost people their jobs too. When you have a small business owner who can’t afford to pay increased wages to unskilled labor, they then have to lay off that unskilled labor. So you may want to make your extra 75 cents/hour, but that could cost your co-worker their job.
Brian B | Sep 07, 2008

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Did you know that the minimum wage actually causes more damage to the middle class than it helps the "poor"?

That is because the minimum wage only affects two types of people: those who make less than the projected minimum wage and the Unions. Everyone else (the "working middle class") is at the mercy of their employers for a COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment), and on the rare occassion that a COLA is granted…it’s almost never high enough to off set the increased minimum wage.

For example, when the minimum wage was $5.25, I was making $9.90. A fairly respectable wage for a skilled worker. Since then, the minimum wage has increased to $7.25, an increase of $2. My wages are now only $10.56, an increase of $0.66 - and that was from TWO annual work merit increases, not a COLA. My job has yet to give me a COLA, despite a drastically increased cost of living in my area from the minimum wage increase. So I went from making $4.65 above minimum wage to making only $3.31 above minimum wage - an effective pay cut of $1.34/hour for someone who is still in the first tax bracket - a lower middle class working person.

Oh…and John McCain doesn’t own 7 homes. His wife, Cindy McCain, owns 7 homes and they have a prenuptual agreement. Which means if/when they divorce, he gets nothing she brought into the marriage or anything she bought - including those 7 homes SHE owns.
solaran_x | Sep 07, 2008

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I like knowing that. To tell you the truth, I couldn’t agree more. By raising the minimum wage, the companies that only pay minimum wage will now have to raise their prices to make up for the loss. So as the wage goes up, so does the cost of living, and then your still stuck in the same boat you were before the increase.
tigerfan_1987 | Sep 07, 2008

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Look at it from this perspective: Most people who are hard working and been in the work force for more than a few months make more than minimum wage. And if a person had worked their way up to $10 an hour at a job, then minimum wage was raised, they most likely would not get a raise from it. However, the prices of the things they buy would increase, making their $10 an hour actually a paycut.
Just for the record, almost immediately after the last minimum wage increase, the cost of a loaf of bread went up by 20 cents, a 20 oz soda, went up by 20 cents, and the costs of most of the value meals at McDonalds went up 30 cents or more. at least they did in the area where I live. So, any benefit gained by the people who were working for minimum wage almost instantly went away. At the same time, those of us who have worked our tails off to make it to a level a good bit over minimum wage, have had to lower our standards of living because we still have to pay more for the goods we use, but did not recieve the raise. This minimum wage increase basically helped decrease the value of the US dollar, which is a major factor in why everyone in the US is paying more for fuel.
So I am very proud of McCain for voting against the minimum wage increase that many times.
Raising minimum wage helps the minimum wage employee very little if any in the long run(possibly even hurts them when businesses start laying off), and hurts most of the "Middle Class".
Thank you John McCain for trying to help out Middle Class workers like myself!!!
Edit: actually, the last minimum wage increase was only a little over 1 decade ago, in 1997.
Slavery was wrong, thats why it was abolished around 140 years ago. It has nothing at all to do with todays people, not you, not me, not anyone that is alive. Bitch all you want about it, but you are owed nothing because of something that happened to people you have never met and most likely know nothing at all about. My grandparents were never slaves, yet they worked from well before daylight, and well after dark everyday but sunday, when they worked from right after church till well after dark, so don’t try to give slaves all the credit for building this country. Most of the white people during the times of slavery couldn’t afford slaves, or didn’t want them, so they worked for themselves, every bit as hard.

Inflation is and always will be a factor in any economy. Prices on almost items(technology being the most common exception). However I don’t ever recall a rise in the cost of most basic items as drastic as in the last year. Raising the mini wage was really bad timing in 2007. Noone really benefitted from it.
I’ll stress again, very few people who have worked hard for any length of time still make minimum wage, since even grocery stores, gas stations, and fast food restaurants give raises to people who work hard.
Mickey L | Sep 07, 2008

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I feel nothing! No President will ever, ever, raise the minial wage to where it should be. Currently in California, it should be $15 per hr. tell me smarty pants, who is going to do that? A woman, a black, a jew, a old man, a young man? No one will, so your question has no real meaning.
it is mute, it is done, it serves no purpose.
leegulboyz | Sep 07, 2008

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Maybe because letting the market dictate wages would drive up peoples’ incentive to get more education and contribute more to the economy, thus increasing the wages for everyone.

It’s not rocket science.
Patchass | Sep 07, 2008

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Makes me feel that he is on the side of the poor by not denying them jobs. ALL scholarly studies done have concluded that minimum wages hurt the people they are supposed to help and are a bad economic idea.

Excuse for inflation? It is not as high as it would have been were minimum wages increased.
Caninelegion | Sep 07, 2008

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My honest opinion is that raising the minimum wage, alone, does nothing for the majority of Americans making the median income. Generally, families whose heads of household make only the minimum wage automatically qualify for nearly every form of social service available (food stamps, welfare, section 8 housing, Medicaid, etc.) The ones being most affected by this downturn in the economy are those who make too much to qualify for govt assistance but not enough to pay for rising costs of basic necessities (and incur mounting debt in order to do so).

If Congress were truly bold, they’d mandate cost-of-living increases in order to keep pace with skyrocketing real inflation (which is twice the "official" rate). Unfortunately, nearly every member of Congress from both parties are in the pockets of Big Business and other corporate interests who have been the sole beneficiaries of "Bushonomics" and varying forms of corporate welfare so don’t expect any real benefit for the average American worker in the near future.

For the clueless who blame labor costs as the reason for high prices, look again. Under the Bush regime, corporations have lobbied successfully to lower occupational safety standards and relax restrictions in the marketplace. The minimum wage has not increased for the last 10 years prior to legislation passed by the "Democratically-controlled" Congress. Median income has actually taken a slight dive since the Clinton years. The primary factor driving the inflation rate to record levels is because of government’s heavy borrowing, leading to the devaluation of the American dollar. Some people STILL do not get it.
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