Summary of Research on the Minimum Wage

The minimum wage reduces employment.

The minimum wage hurts low wage workers.

The minimum wage hurts small businesses generally.

The minimum wage helps unions.

The minimum wage increases teenage crime rates.

The minimum wage reduces employment most among black teenage males; the minimum wage hurts blacks generally.

The minimum wage does little to reduce poverty.

The minimum wage helps upper income families.

The minimum wage reduces employment more among teenagers than adults.

The minimum wage hurts the unskilled.

The minimum wage hurts low wage workers particularly during cyclical downturns.

The minimum wage increases job turnover.

The minimum wage reduces average earnings of young workers.

The minimum wage drives workers into uncovered jobs, thus lowering wages in those sectors.

The minimum wage reduces employment in low-wage industries, such as retailing.

The minimum wage causes employers to cut back on training.

The minimum wage has long-term effects on skills and lifetime earnings.

The minimum wage leads employers to cut back on fringe benefits.

The minimum wage encourages employers to install labor-saving devices.

The minimum wage hurts low-wage regions, such as the South and rural areas.

The minimum wage increases the number of people on welfare.

The minimum wage hurts the poor generally.

The minimum wage increases inflationary pressure.

The minimum wage encourages employers to hire illegal aliens.

Few workers are permanently stuck at the minimum wage.

The upper class used them to keep workers from ever gaining self dertermination.

I see your software is active today. Goodmorning to whoever the handlers are that are running the computers this morning. How much do you get paid for your roles in the continuous creation of chaos and flack? Are you in Virginia or am I already speaking to the chinese replacements scheduled under Bush 3.....I mean Romney?

You are a software app of the evil empire. Always programed to project and projectile vomiting everywhere you "pop up".

I guess that is why the US hasn't won a single war since WWII, except perhaps for Reagan's war on tiny little Grenada...

What a load of bollocks!

The "workers" can have any self-determination they want and strive to get. Read some histories of the evil rich. You will find they were virtually all "workers."

Do you realize that Grenada was the FIRST time the filthy commies were set back in over 60 years of expansion? That was the beginning of the demise of the EVIL EMPIRE.

The statements about the minimum wage are all accurate and valid.

ROTFLMAO!

Bullshit!

They are valid and accurate. Your not liking them changes nothing.

They are neither valid nor accurate, quite the contrary, your delusions notwithstanding.

Yes, they are valid. Please think about economics and you will see that each one makes perfect sense.

An example: Why not have the minimum wage at $25 an hour? Leftist logic declares that raising the minimum wage helps everyone, right? Just take it to its logical outcome. Have you considered this? If it is in the GOVERNMENT sector, the GOVERNMENT does not have to be concerned with failing, going bust, getting monies, or making a profit. So think OUTSIDE of government.

And there are so many commonsensical reasons. A plethora.......

Minimum wage works just fine in Switzerland - it varies according to the professions, never less than $20 an hour and rising (minimum wage for home cleaners is 25 Swiss francs), and Switzerland has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world - less than 3%. So you can take your false statements and shove them where the sun never shines.

Nice try. I was referring to America. I do not know if it works in Switzerland or not, and that is not related.

My statements are accurate and valid. They are irrefutable. I presented the obvious concept, and you were not able to refute that. Do you know the average income in Bhutan? Quite high, but it does not mean that their system is working better, of course.

So, please do not deflect and divert. My statements are valid and incontrovertible.

Again, I am not referring to Switzerland but America. I presented the concept and it is irrefutable. My information stands. It cannot be denied or refuted. I can present more concepts to prove, beyond any doubt, that what I presented is accurate, unless one denies logic and reason.

You did not specify America, and your concept is ludicrous. Your information is false, it can only be denied and refuted. I don't care how many false and fictitious concepts you can present, they are systematically wrong. As for logic and reason, what on earth could you possibly know about them? You haven't shown either thus far here on Current.

"You did not specify America"

Word games. These threads, unless specified, are not about Europe, no matter how much you want them to be.

"Your information is false"

It is incontrovertible.

"I don't care how many false and fictitious concepts you can present"

How can a concept be "false?"

"they are systematically wrong"

They are systematically correct. Thus the concept.

Another concept: A person has a restaurant. There are a couple of people doing some very simple jobs to make the place look a bit nicer, like going out to the parking lot and constantly clearing any brush, etc.

The restaurant owner is just making ends meet in a tough economy.

Suddenly, he finds out that a Left-winger Congress has increased the minimum wage by, say $2 an hour. Now, his two minimum-wage employees who work, say, 35 hours a week, are going to cost him an extra $70 a week each, or $140 a week. Multiply by 50 weeks: $7,000 a year, plus the other costs, like social security, etc.

Possible solutions:
1. Reduce his personal profit by $7,000
2. Lower the salaries of others.
3. Fire one of them.

Which do you think he will choose? Which would YOU choose? Are you willing to answer this? Or will you just insult and say I am wrong as usual?

Want another CONCEPT presented in a real-life situation? I got plenty!

I am not interested in the vain search for "status," being considered "intellectual," and being regarded as "cultured." It is an ignus fatuus leading nowhere.

I state concepts, conclusions and interpretations. They stand true until other concepts can prove otherwise.

War economy is why we have won no wars.

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"These threads, unless specified, are not about Europe, no matter how much you want them to be."

Just thought it would be fun to point out that this essentially seems to be some kind of code for, "Well I'm mentioning it now," and, "I'm apparently too ignorant to realize that who is the elected leader of the country I have a blind love for that cannot apparently allow me to see actual faults with said country can have repercussions for the rest of the world." Also, "How dare you make comparisons to a different country to make your point, that's cheating."

Again, you pick a sentence or two out of context and without considering to what it was a response. That renders your interpretations and Leftist judgments and pronouncements invalid and rather fatuous.

I'd apologize, but I think giving you a taste of your own medicine is just such fun...

And appropriate too.

By the way, feel free to respond to my previous response. It should be worth a laugh.

This article is ridiculous. The mormon church is literally called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints". They worship Christ, saying mormons aren't christian is like saying Zen Buddhist aren't Buddhists. What's the point? Are there differences? Sure just like every other Christian religion they interpret the Bible with their own slant. And just like every other Christian religion out there, they believe they are the only true word of God. Which makes them just like the rest. It's like a bunch of people in a mud pit wrestling over who's cleanest. It makes no sense to differentiate them from other Christian churches. They all have the same issues.

Then WHY do you associate with paganism and satanist symbols? I know you left the church but.....c'mon..Religion is an effing CANCER on this planet.....Peace.

Tatiana, me thinks you know a lot less then you think about these things. Paganism, freemasonry, and satanism have nothing to do with one another. Freemasonry isn't a religion. Their symbols are Egyptian in origin and spawn from Judeo and Egyptian mysticism. Paganism is a very broad term used for the European religions and folklore that existed prior to Christianity. And Satanism is a rather new religion based on ego-centrism. So...back to the question...the LDS church uses Freemasonry symbols because Joseph Smith was a Mason and he ripped them off and gave them completely different meanings. Joseph Smith plagiarized a lot. He had very few original ideas. Still the LDS church has no connection nor really any resemblance to Free Masonry, which isn't even a religion. The LDS church denounces both Paganism and Satanism, and like you the LDS church really doesn't know the difference between Paganism and Satanism since they inherited the Catholic/Protestant view of the old religions. In other words they hold the same views towards these religions that every other Christian church does. That and they bear no commonality with the pagan religions that they hate, at least none that they didn't inherit from the Lutheran church that Joseph started in (such as celebrating Christmas). Coincidentally...I now practice paganism and Taoism. I'd challenge you to find one thing you hate about religion that also involves these two practices. Most every atrocity ever committed in the name of religion was done due to Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. If these religions were eradicated, what would be left would bring peace to the world. Many atheists are quick to criticize but few understand or have studied even a tenth of the worlds religions. It's sad, you'd think atheists would be more cautious of ignorance.

Well said TatianaC. You have warmed my heart. Are you an Anthropologist by proffession?

I agree that they used the knowledge of Freemason's and created a Religion. They used other info that I don't know where it came from about the Planets. And what's with the cows?

Didn't Joseph Smith create Mormonism when he was about fifteen years old, which means that he was not a Mason as children are not allowed to become Masons?

Very well said.

I am not an atheist..but an agnostic and have met in my life several Freemasons....as well as Pagans ( in England)....Perhaps you failed to acknowledge that I DESPISE any sort of man made cult/religion ..Lived in several countries - dad was a diplomat so I do not dare post comments which I am unfamiliar with......The symbols used by the mormons ARE a copy of several satanist symbols...yet one could defend symbols are just that. Symbols......

Nah...Liberal Arts.......

Satanism, was founded in 1966 and for the most part wasn't a religion before that. Throughout the years there have been many, and I mean many, accusations of satanism but they hold no commonality, short of a long historical precedence of mistaking paganism for satanism, which is again...objectively false. So, any symbols that Satanism has, were created or stolen from other religions and redefined in 1966, over a hundred years after the LDS church was created. Do you see what I'm saying? There's common symbolism across many religions, but to understand where they came from you need a concept of chronology. You can't say Mormons adopted Satanic symbols when there was no such religion as Satanism at that time. Now again, Paganism would have been mistaken for satanism at the time the LDS church was founded, so maybe you mean that the LDS church has Pagan symbolism...which considering how pervasive Pagan symbolism is, would actually accurate. It's accurate of every Christian religion though. Even the cross is an ancient Pagan symbol of war.

I think it's your right to worship whomever or whatever you wish. But you are telling an European that satanism was founded in 1966? Please.....

Good comment. I don't know if it has anything to do with the church but I do not trust Romney. It is the first time since I have paid attention that a person running for president scares me.

Thank you for the precision, You have taught me.

Great point. Thank you.

Well yeah, if you read it that way...........RUN KENNY RUN!

It's amazing how much he lies and changes his positions at the drop of a hat!

It is amazing Kenny. How would we believe anything he says as president +^d

Signed!

Spot on!

Thanks Jan, I'll have it written if actually does happen. I don't think many Americans will stand for it. Well said! :)

"I think they should have to swear their oath on the Constitution instead of the Bible or any religious book."
Agree 100%, swearing on a bible sounds right on the surface a direct assault on the division of church and state!

"I think they should have to swear their oath on the Constitution"

Swear to WHAT, exactly? The God of Mother Earth?

Swear to WHAT, exactly?

How about the nation or even the American people? Not some imaginary bearded man in the sky.

Spot on!

agreed!

Thanks, very well said. He is a dangerous man and the last person that should ever be elected to the office. The Fascist of course have embraced this Moron for obvious reasons like he is easy to manipulate. I heard the other evening that 16 out of his 20 some advisors are ex-bush advisors, the neo-con type, that alone should have woke up people by now!

This is great. Tks for sharing it.

Hopefully it won't get that far, by that I mean he won't be elected. But I am ready to write that pledge if it does happen. Thanks Leen61 for being an informed voter, and a friend! :)

You're welcome, my friend! :)

For Religious reasons, you do know that many Mormons believe they are a lost tribe from Israel! Thats why the Romney connection to so many Israeli's is really scary!

"Lets not forget he is also a war monger that would Love to get WW 3 going"

The Liberals said that about the great Ronald Reagan, and.... what happened?

Good one, more facts for the people!:)

Yes. Thanks for reminding us about what he's already on record as doing.

Thanks, I've been wanting to compose this letter for sometime now, and I am feeling much better today so much better that I am begging for people to spread this little known fact as soon as possible we are running out of time!

Where did Kenny Go ?

I was pretty sick and out of it for a month or so, just barely being myself on current! :)

I'm sorry to hear that you were sick :(. Happy to hear your doing better :)

Thanks bailey78, I am feeling much better now! :)

Stranger things have happen, especially when it involves a twit for President (Bush) in case you forgot!

Don't worry, VOTE!!!

Remember 2000 and 2004?

Done, in the MAIL!