Thursday unions in America will stage massive protests in hopes of raising minimum-wage to $15 /hr. This is yet another example of Democrats causing a problem and using a silly Marxist ploy to marginalize the opposition. The fact they have to pay people to protest gives this farce away.
It looks like the UN wants $15 per hour minimum-wage, and now unions are forcing protests at McDonald's restaurants all over the country. They want to double minimum-wage overnight. Imagine the loss of jobs that will cause. Imagine the massive increase of fast food costs in America it will cause.
When Obama first took office times were tough. Higher minimum-wage demands by Democrats started a job loss, coupled with new banking regulations, and caused a massive economic crash beginning in 2006. Now there are calls for another increase in minimum-wage from Democrats just in time for the election. I believe they're setting up another crash for the 2016 election.
The Democrats have convinced millions of voters that they support the poor and the GOP is only for the rich. But there's a problem; Democrats seem to be perpetuating an endless cycle of slight wage increases for the lowest paid workers and ever increasing off the books inflation.
Look at the price of everything today. 5 years ago you could buy a Hostess apple pie for under a dollar. Now not only has Hostess gone out of business, but you can't find an apple pie for less than $1.80. A bag of chips that 5 years ago cost $1.20 now costs $3.69. Gas was $1.59 before Obama and now it's roughly $3.50 per gal. Democrats have slapped massive excise taxes on fast foods and fatty foods with the intention of curbing consumption. We're paying twice as much for food because the Democrats want to keep us from being fat. They're only doing it for our own good. They don't want anyone to recognize that they're doing it by the way. This is a fact now. They use price hikes to curb consumption. They're doing it with food and they fully intend on doing it with energy.
It seems that Democrats either don't care about the side-effects of their policies or they don't completely think out the long-term effects of them. Their media friends have been instrumental in these destructive unintended consequences as well.
If they wanted to get us in shape maybe they should encourage us to do what Germany did in the 60s. Encourage a national program of exercise that will literally melt the pounds off of us. Germans have the opportunity for so much healthy exercise that it won't matter how much they eat. Volksmarching helped Germany's overburdened health care system get on a better footing. Simply walking 6-12 miles every weekend in scheduled events turned their overall health around. How many people do you know could even walk 3 miles today, much less 12?
Another aspect of of our overall health effects our children. All of these stories in the news about shady characters or gun welding nut jobs abducting or killing children has forced scared parents to bring their kids in to play video games indoors or sit on the couch watching TV rather than allow them to run around outside like I did when I was a kid. Bus drivers have to literally drop kids off at their doorstep removing yet another mode of exercise, walking home from school. In a nut-shell, fear generated by the media has made our kids fat, and then Democrats, rather than do something practical about it, raise taxes on our food so we won't eat as much. It's total lunacy, but it makes sense to liberals, and to react to the ever rising costs of living the Democrats keep trying to compensate by proposing another increase in minimum-wage which will only drive of the costs of food once again. It's an endless cycle, and the Dems are trying to take advantage of it.
This problem was caused by Democrats, the media, and the food manufacturers need for profits. They don't design food products that are always good for us. They are mostly concerned with taste and appearance rather than taking the consumer's health into consideration. This all contributes to the problems that have risen from it and once again our politicians are trying to get involved. Their hearts may or may not be in the right place, but the end result is we get screwed out of our money.
Only 1.5 million of us make minimum-wage. Why do Democrats make it sound like it is a large group that this will effect? Because Democrats are deep into hyperbole and deception. The Bush Tax-cuts were all about the tax-cuts for the rich, but in fact everyone that pays taxes got a tax-cut. Democrats feel you won't notice that they've been jacking up our prices. They want to blame it on greed. They have been getting ready to jack up our energy costs by illuminating many of our sources of energy. Destroying the coal industry and decimating the deep-water oil drilling industry has already raised our electrical bills. An electric bill that used to be under $100/mo is now $250. Topping off your gas tank used to cost $29. Now you can't do it for less than $40. All of this adds to the costs of food production. They've been costing us billions of dollars and they think that raising wages for only 1.5 million workers offsets their malfeasance. Just how stupid do they think we are?
Links
Fast-food strike: How strong is the case for a big wage hike? (+video) - CSMonitor.com
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