Comments on: Fun with Rush

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:52:29 +0000

Minimum wage increase is a tax. OMG. People actually believe this guy. I’m sorry for some of the brains of America.

By: Yakki

Yakki — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:50:15 +0000

Charles….nice post.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:30:16 +0000

Here’s my bit, I like the concept of a minimum wage, but it has to be at the state level. Five dollars an hour in Sherman, Texas is easier to live with than 8 dollars an hour in San Diego, California.

By having a Fedearl minimum wage, it is arbitrary. It’s not enough in high COL areas and too much in low COL areas. By letting states decide, as the above poster shows, you get states that can generate growth but balanced with businesses going to other states with potentially lower profits.

What must happen is the US Government regulating enough to discourage outsourcing. Another issue, of course.

By: Helena

Helena — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:52:26 +0000

Finally! (Just kiddin’). That was funny. I didn’t know if that was you, ‘cuz you said a loyal listener, so I checked it out. The only thing is, he thought it was funny too! He was cracking up when you said it; it was funny. So, hey, some people may get down on ya for making a joke and not, I guess you’d call it, sticking it to him, but I’m not. If nothing else it added to the entertainment value by being slightly shocking to alot of his listeners. Plus, I get it about not wanting to piss people off so they won’t let you on. Well, you didn’t piss Rush off- he said he loves you, LOL!

By: Yakki

Yakki — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:05:20 +0000

“You increase the minimum wage then the price on everthing goes up and the people are poor again.”

Partially true. The problem,in my humble opinion,is that the COL has far outstripped the minimum wage. It is a minimum for a reason,yes?

SImple math here. If the COL is far greater than the minimum wage,raising the minimum won’t affect anything since the COL is going to do as it has constantly done in the past. Which is to say,go through the roof. The only logical way to control this inflated COL is to deal with it,not necessarily the minimum wage.

However,the biggest part of the problem(again,IMO) is speculation in the market. Instead of fair speculation on commodities and such,they are always underestimated. Doing that makes the market,and speculators a tidy profit. The costs of goods go up though,because of the false shortage created by underestimation. The only way to stop this would be to regulate market speculation ability,or in other words,tie those bastards down and keep them away from those rubber pencils.

Of course,that would seem to be a socialist concept to many Republicans. And they may well be right on soem levels. However,what we have now is no more than a fuedalist bunch of nonsense,where the man on the bottom takes the penis. Without some sort of fairness doctrine in effect to stop this,all you eventually will have is “haves” and “have-nots”. No middle class at all,which IMO would be TERRIBLE for our country and economy. Of course the “haves” wouldn’t mind it. Cheap labor right here at home? Hello?

And that’s nothing to do with wealth redistribution. Nobody is going to be taking anything from anyone. People will still earn their keep themselves. But the market,and the COL will be better under control at least. Then you might not need so many of those dreaded “entitlement programs” that are harped on so much.