Michigan Democrats want to raise the state minimum wage to ten bucks an hour. This is economically criminal behavior. It will further devastate black youth in Detroit, Flint and Saginaw. Flint’s official employment rate is almost thirty percent.
And meanwhile, the red fox has returned to Detroit. Moose won’t be far behind, if they want to walk across the Mackinac Bridge.
Well, yeah; them union boys need another raise. You don’t actually think Dems care about non-union labor, do you?
Red foxes are actually rather adaptable animals. In England, they are quite common in non-rural areas. In the US, I’ve seen them near strip malls and shopping centers in suburbia.
Coyotes are also quite common in urban areas — there are occasional news stories of them walking through downtown Chicago. There was one on Michigan Avenue some years back, and another out on the ice near Navy Pier that taunted animal control crews before making its escape.
This stems from competing ideas about wealth and the economy. Liberals tend to think that wealth merely exists, and is then distributed, rather than believing in the crazy idea that wealth is generated by human activity.
Actually, this helps ensure that a ready pool of Obamatruppen are available to defend the state.
Keep ’em beggars, and they are easier manipul… er, please.
ACORN can’t collect volunteers from the busily employed. And as JP Gibb said, if they aren’t union, fuck ’em. A $10 minimum wage looks good to the anything-that-makes-me-feel-better-about-myself liberal voter.
There is an argument that a high minimum wage prevents viable low cost labor and forces people to become highly skilled high wage earners (or unfortunately a member of a protection racket) in order to get/keep a job. This can to some extent be a good thing for some countries, if done well.