Michelle Bachman - congressional embarassment

[heironymouspasparagus]

Obviously you were ineffective.  Either that or wrong.

Neither.  It is symptomatic of deflection by Disciples of The Script.  Paying no attention and not learning from their mistakes.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Yes, in your self contradictory fantasy land, that is indeed the case. Out here in the real world where people need to work to have things like food and a place to live, workers have little bargaining power. Surely you understand how severely asymmetric bargaining power distorts markets.

He does.  He doesn't want YOU to understand it, though.

[Hoss]

There's worse:

That's probably about an 8 on the creepy eye scale.

[heironymouspasparagus]

It would be far better to split the $90 among the existing staff and not hire someone for that job that isn't worth a living wage.  That person you didn't hire can find find a job somewhere else, maybe.

That is exactly what he did as long as he possibly could, but when he found out he couldn't get the tables cleaned in a reasonable, timely fashion, he finally - belatedly - came to the realization that another bus boy was necessary.  Darn the bad luck...now someone has to be hired just to clean tables.  And when there are 24, 4 top equivalents, 1/3 of which stay dirty during a 2 hour rush because no one cleans them - what is the lost revenue due to the number of people who could not find seating, so decide never to bother such a busy place again, or came in, saw the mess and decided not to stay for that visit.  I bet it is more than the money the newby is gonna cost.

[Red Arrow]

Neither.  It is symptomatic of deflection by Disciples of The Script.  Paying no attention and not learning from their mistakes.

You were unable to reach your audience.  That is being ineffective.

[Red Arrow]

That is exactly what he did as long as he possibly could, but when he found out he couldn't get the tables cleaned in a reasonable, timely fashion, he finally - belatedly - came to the realization that another bus boy was necessary.  Darn the bad luck...now someone has to be hired just to clean tables.  And when there are 24, 4 top equivalents, 1/3 of which stay dirty during a 2 hour rush because no one cleans them - what is the lost revenue due to the number of people who could not find seating, so decide never to bother such a busy place again, or came in, saw the mess and decided not to stay for that visit.  I bet it is more than the money the newby is gonna cost.

You are making a lot of assumptions which may not be accurate.

[Red Arrow]

That's probably about an 8 on the creepy eye scale.

That's more than bad enough for me.

[Gaspar]

You are making a lot of assumptions which may not be accurate.

It's not important.   We've had 50 years of observation on how minimum wage affects employment and the negative affect it has on the poor.  It's unreasonable to argue with amorphic scenarios like this.

The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books. – Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Past studies by and large confirm the prediction that higher minimum wages reduce employment opportunities and raise unemployment, particularly among teenagers, minorities and other low-skilled workers. – Masanori Hashimoto

Low-income workers as a group are the major victims of minimum wage legislation. – Keith B. Leffler



The primary purpose of proposals to raise minimum wage above natural averages is primarily for the purchase of votes before an election.  The electorate is typically incapable of anticipating the consequence.

[RecycleMichael]

We have had nine years of the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Where are the jobs?

[Townsend]

Marshall's beer is tasty and a Wookie belly dancing to a Klingon band.

[Gaspar]

We have had nine years of the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Where are the jobs?

We had a bump in the road.

[Conan71]

We have had nine years of the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Where are the jobs?

Ask President Obama.  I'm sure he's got a great excuse!

It's now his tax cut anyhow it was supposed to expire at the end of 2010.  Last I checked, he'd been in office almost two years at that point and even had a lame duck majority in the House.

[Gaspar]

Ask President Obama.  I'm sure he's got a great excuse!

It's now his tax cut anyhow it was supposed to expire at the end of 2010.  Last I checked, he'd been in office almost two years at that point and even had a lame duck majority in the House.

Get out da Bushes!

[nathanm]

It's now his tax cut anyhow it was supposed to expire at the end of 2010.  Last I checked, he'd been in office almost two years at that point and even had a lame duck majority in the House.

That pesky filibuster, always a thorn in the side of the majority.

It's always interesting how business owners are too stupid whenever it's convenient for Gaspar's political arguments, yet the rest of the time they're godlike figures who make the whole world go.

[Gaspar]

That pesky filibuster, always a thorn in the side of the majority.

It's always interesting how business owners are too stupid whenever it's convenient for Gaspar's political arguments, yet the rest of the time they're godlike figures who make the whole world go.

Voting in favor of extending the Bush Tax Cuts in 2010 were 139 Democrats and 138 Republicans, while 112 Democrats and 36 Republicans voted against it.  Seemed like a rather bi-partisan vote in the house, but you're on a roll.