FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

After that disaster last night Rubio is done as a serious 2016 candidate. Who is the next Republican golden boy?

 

Where do you on the left think the money comes from? And why do you think minimum-wage jobs are supposed to support a family of four? You people think things happen in a vacuum and they don't.

Raise the minimum wage by that much, and you'll see what happens. And, of course, you'll whine about it.

 

We'll certainly save billions on the Medicaid and food stamps we use currently to subsidize WalMart employees.

 

I'd be willing to be an awful lot that you're wrong there. The Obama Regime would simply raise the qualifying lines.

 

I dare you to prove that Walmart employees receive more than $1 billion a year (remember, you said "billions") in Medicaid and food stamp subsidies.

 

Why are we limiting this to 365 days? I never got that from Az's post.

 

LOL ... well, if we save that $1 billion over a 50-year period, we certainly will have accomplished something, other consequences be damned!

 

1 year ... 50 years. Roughly the same thing.

 

The point being, I still dare him (or anyone) to prove that Medicaid and food stamp expenditures (over any reasonable degree of immediacy) for Walmart employees are greater than $1 billion.

Remember that he wrote "certainly" and he wrote "currently" ...

 

My question is...who did the president use as a pawn in his speech in a seat next to the First the First Lady last night? I want to know who will be used and forgotten...like Kimberly Munley, the Fort Hood officer who was shot three times saving furred casualties in apprehending that Muslim terrori.... oh sorry.... that "hostile employee" a few years ago? Seems that SHE has this passion for soldiers and their families and it seems according to the soldier she promised her gov'mint would be there....but to date, the soldier has never received help and was recently laid off her job by the Army. Oh well, Michelle's note to our glorious Premier must have been left with hubby's notes to take out the trash. Better still, it's below the stack of the base's laundry list.

 

most of them are minimum wage employees. Sometimes common sense should suffice.

 

Common sense is a poor substitute for evidence, especially in this instance.