TRIGGER WARNING: It appears that several states are following the law as laid out in the new farm bill to… wait for it… help poor people eat!!!!1!1! Oh, the humanity! Are you outraged? Are you clutching your pearls while your panties bunch themselves in a wad? We should have warned for earmuffs for all children, because the level of bamboozlement and chicanery and hoodwinkery should get a Political NC-17 rating, turning up the faux-rage to eleven… nay, to TWELVE. TWELVE WE SAY.
<a href="http://hereandnow.wbur.org/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/03/17/unz-minimum...">http://hereandnow.wbur.org/... UNZ: &ldquo;The bottom line is that the American government right now spends $250 billion a year on social welfare programs to benefit the working poor,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What we have right now is the classic case of businesses privatizing the benefits of the workers, but socializing the costs &mdash; shifting the burden to taxpayers and the rest of society. And I think businesses should stand on their own two feet and pay their own workers, rather than force the taxpayers to make up the difference.&rdquo; YOUNG: &quot;Wal-Mart, the largest low-wage employer in America, could accommodate the costs of a $12-an-hour minimum wage nationally by simply raising their prices 1 percent one time.&quot; UNZ: Well, a little while ago the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, came out with a report that opponents of a higher minimum wage touted as being very favorable to their position. The CBO report argued that 500,000 jobs might be in danger because of a higher minimum wage. But also, 25 million workers would get a large wage increase. Furthermore, many of the jobs lost might be in the case of teenagers. And we could take a tiny fraction of the tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies we&#039;d be saving and use it to fund a business tax credit for teenage employment. That would be a small fraction of the dollars the current government is spending to subsidize so many tens of millions of low-wage workers. So I think it would be very beneficial. YOUNG: That&#039;s Ron Unz, former publisher of the American Conservative magazine. He chairs the Higher Wages Alliance, which is sponsoring a California ballot initiative to raise the state&#039;s minimum wage to $12 per hour.
It&#039;s becoming increasingly obvious the GNoP is really counting on the Affordable Care Act to carry they to victory in November because not only do they have nothing else, they are actively working to turn off about 80% of the voting public.
&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t have the governors of these states gaming the system and thumbing their noses at the United States Congress,&rdquo; [King] said.
So will he also yell at all the Republican governors who are refusing to implement parts of the ACA, thus thumbing their noses at the United States Congress?
<blockquote>&ldquo;I would hope that the House would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing,&rdquo; Boehner said.</blockquote> I don&#039;t think <em>&quot;fraud&quot;</em> means what you think it means, Mr. Speaker. It looks to me like they&#039;re following the letter of the law.
So they are all about states rights except when they are not. IOKIYAR.
You know what else was about state&#039;s rights?
<a href="http://hereandnow.wbur.org/..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/03/17/unz-minimum...">http://hereandnow.wbur.org/... UNZ: &ldquo;The bottom line is that the American government right now spends $250 billion a year on social welfare programs to benefit the working poor,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What we have right now is the classic case of businesses privatizing the benefits of the workers, but socializing the costs &mdash; shifting the burden to taxpayers and the rest of society. And I think businesses should stand on their own two feet and pay their own workers, rather than force the taxpayers to make up the difference.&rdquo; YOUNG: &quot;Wal-Mart, the largest low-wage employer in America, could accommodate the costs of a $12-an-hour minimum wage nationally by simply raising their prices 1 percent one time.&quot; UNZ: Well, a little while ago the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, came out with a report that opponents of a higher minimum wage touted as being very favorable to their position. The CBO report argued that 500,000 jobs might be in danger because of a higher minimum wage. But also, 25 million workers would get a large wage increase. Furthermore, many of the jobs lost might be in the case of teenagers. And we could take a tiny fraction of the tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies we&#039;d be saving and use it to fund a business tax credit for teenage employment. That would be a small fraction of the dollars the current government is spending to subsidize so many tens of millions of low-wage workers. So I think it would be very beneficial. YOUNG: That&#039;s Ron Unz, former publisher of the American Conservative magazine. He chairs the Higher Wages Alliance, which is sponsoring a California ballot initiative to raise the state&#039;s minimum wage to $12 per hour.
The Kelo Decision was all about states&#039; rights. But not according to the right wing nutz.
Duh Gov&#039;?
Probably not...
It&#039;s becoming increasingly obvious the GNoP is really counting on the Affordable Care Act to carry they to victory in November because not only do they have nothing else, they are actively working to turn off about 80% of the voting public.
Where do you buy those self-bunching panties? Sound kind of, uh...useful.
Yoder&#039;s statements are not in strange syntax reported?
&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t have the governors of these states gaming the system and thumbing their noses at the United States Congress,&rdquo; [King] said.
So will he also yell at all the Republican governors who are refusing to implement parts of the ACA, thus thumbing their noses at the United States Congress?
Much like everything else the GOP stands for, the state&#039;s have rights so long as they do what we want them to do.
Humane ?
But then the poor can keep warm by burning water.
<blockquote>&ldquo;I would hope that the House would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing,&rdquo; Boehner said.</blockquote> I don&#039;t think <em>&quot;fraud&quot;</em> means what you think it means, Mr. Speaker. It looks to me like they&#039;re following the letter of the law.