President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Those who complain the loudest about "cancel culture" and "political correctness" have only one goal: showing the world that they remain the most colossal assholes walking the earth.

 

I think she cheated on her husband with a gender neutral.

 

He crossed state lines to commit these crimes and many more. March his ass to prison.

 

Maybe U.S. Senators should be making the same amount they were being paid in 1969 too. $42,500. Fun fact, if the pay for the senate and the minimum wage kept pace with inflation they would be almost $303k a year vs. the $175k they make now and minimum wage would about 11.74.

 

A prisoner of his hate
Entangled in his web
Dark whispers in the night
They're captured by his spell
Captured
Oh, yes, they're triggered by the show of emotion
Should you be punished for your lack of devotion?
Should you?
Should you?

You better be good to him
That's how it's got to be now
'Cause I don't have no use
For what you loosely call the truth
You better be good to him

I oughta think it's oh, so right
How we do need to fight
We can't stand his face
And Raskin presented his case
Yes, I know

You keep telling me that you need him
And I really don't believe
That'll you ever give up your bad faith
Oh, sure, baby
Anything to please him
But you better be good

 

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Didn't he say he STARTED at $1/hour and eventually moved up to $6/hour?

Isn't minimum wage the STARTING point to where you want to move up from?

Minimum wage in 1979 was $2.90. That's $10.45 today.

I believe minimum wage should be raised. But it's incorrect to use $6/hour as the comparison example. That was NOT his starting wage. That was his "I've worked here and proven myself and advanced" wage.

 

My first official, tax-paying job came in 1987.
Minimum wage was $3/hr.
The grocery store paid us $2.88, claiming they didn't have to pay the 3 because we were minors. In today's money, that would be $6.63.
I don't think part-time fast food and grocery store jobs need a big minimum wage boost. Those are entry level jobs for kids. They aren't meant to be careers.
It doesn't affect me now, but I'm for raising it for actual jobs. In all my years in the newspaper business, the most I ever made was $10.75, and that was before they cut us back to $10.50 in 2008. We all had college degrees making that. I look back now and think "WTF was I doing?" Oh well, that's why I got off the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg and before it started taking on water.

 

Once they increase it to whatever they increase it to it should be indexed because I’m sick of this fucking argument every decade. Workers move ahead for a year or two then the employers retains the upper hand through inflation.

 

If his $1/hour wage was in 1979, then either his restaurant was committing wage theft, or he received tips. Assuming the latter, then if he was making the equivalent of today’s $10.45/hour, he was doing better than today’s minimum wage earners in South Dakota, since that state’s minimum wage is $9.10/hour.

 

As I said, I believe it should be raised.

But the "$6 = $23.11 HA HA HA!" snarky comparison was grossly inaccurate. And throwing in the "doesn't understand basic math and inflation" was an unfair cheap shot. That was my point.

 

The co/defendants and the defendants’ friends and family don’t get to be on the jury. OTOH a jury made up of the victims isn’t the fairest either. But fuck the criminals