i don't think min wage will be repealed...
an economist suggeted that one way to adjust for the current position we are in...
its not going through congress as a bill...
i'm not gonna get all excited...cause someone suggested something...
but i do appreciate the view...it allows for an understanding...
it was on fox news...doh...
and it is just a move to bring us in line with the world labor model...
and the worlds standard of living...so we are not so much different than the rest of the world that
every fucking one wants to come here...
this is a way to slow down migration of third world citizens to the U.S.
if we're brought down to the worlds level...suddenly we're not the go to country...
one day...
quote author=ekg link=topic=11256.msg150851#msg150851 date=1176596369
"from 04/07 in thread about howie and his erotic sig..."
I knew I liked Boh.... I just didn't know we complained about the same exact thing at almost the same exact time.....
one day, we must meet...
Does it still apply ?
(pausing self-imposed exile)
a. Are you aware even Florida's trying to repeal the minimum wage? Nah...I didn't think so...
http://m.naplesnews.com/news/2011/apr/05/minimum-wage-change-clears-florida-house-panel/TALLAHASSEE — A bill designed to thwart a lawsuit challenging the state's refusal to increase Florida's minimum wage cleared a House committee Tuesday.
The measure (HB 1425) narrowly won approval from the Finance and Tax Committee on a largely party line 13-11 vote. Three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the legislation.
It would provide legal justification for a decision by the Agency for Workforce Innovation to keep Florida's minimum wage at the $7.25 an hour federal rate instead of increasing it to $7.31 on Jan. 1 to keep up with inflation.
In January, a lawsuit was filed in state Circuit Court in Tallahassee on behalf of minimum wage workers. It alleges the agency violated a state constitutional amendment that requires adjustments in the rate to match increases in the Consumer Price Index.
Democrats said the bill was part of a pattern by majority Republicans to favor businesses over workers no matter how low they are paid.
"Some in the business community have taken out a full-fledged war on the working class and the middle class in this state and they know who they are," said Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando. "They call it minimum wage. They don't call it a living wage because it's not a living wage."
Randolph said the state is trying to deny about 200,000 minimum wage workers a raise that would only amount to $2.40 a week.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. John Tobia, R-Melbourne, denied the accusation that GOP lawmakers are waging war against the working class.
"We have to remember businesses are the ones that employ the bulk of these individuals," Tobia said. "The more burden you place on the businesses the less individuals they can employ."
He acknowledged, though, that if he could he'd repeal the minimum wage but it's required by the Florida Constitution.
The agency's refusal to raise the minimum wage this year was a delayed reaction to its reduction in the rate from $7.21 to $7.06 last year after the Consumer Price Index declined. That decision had no effect at that time because either way the Florida rate was superseded by the $7.25 federal minimum wage. When the index increased, the agency used the $7.06 rate as a base to calculate a corresponding rise in the state minimum wage to $7.16 — still below the federal rate.
The lawsuit contends the agency should have used $7.21 as the base because that's what it was before the index dropped, which would have resulted in a $7.31 rate.
Rep. Jim Waldman, R-Coconut Creek, cited a Florida Supreme Court opinion noting the constitution allows only for increases in the minimum wage.
"It does not say we should decrease it," Waldman said. "This bill says the opposite."
Tobia replied that he's not worried about constitutional issues. He said lawmakers are independently elected so they shouldn't base their decisions on what the courts say.
The bill has one more committee stop in the House before it can get a floor vote. A similar bill (SB 1610) has been filed in the Senate but has yet to get a committee hearing.
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b. It was a gif of two stormtroopers dry humping...sheesh!
