Seattle socialist Sawant challenged over minimum wage: Recently small business men and woman took the city council member to task over her war on small business, prosperity, employment and the middle class through a push to price fix wages. From the exchange it seems likely that Sawant has never run anything ever -with the exception of other people’s lives. (video at link)
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In this piece...
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/seattle-elects-socialist-city-council
...it says...
Sawant, a 41-year-old college economics professor, first drew attention as part of local Occupy Wall Street protests that included taking over a downtown park and a junior college campus in late 2011. She then ran for legislative office in 2012, challenging the powerful speaker of the state House, a Democrat. She was easily defeated.
This year, though, she pushed a platform that resonated with the city. She backed efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15; called for rent control in the city where rental prices keep climbing; and supports a tax on millionaires to help fund a public transit system and other services.
...this dope "teaches" economics, but I know for a fact that she could never takes what she believes in & make it work. If she has her way, the Sea/Tac area becomes Detroit.
Washington got a severe vase of Kalifornication and there was no vaccine at the time...the same terrible sickness is spreading thru Oregon and creeping into Arizona also.
she represents the reason I left Washington (never to return) the liberals have destroyed what was once a great state. Got a drinking problem move to Wa. get your social security handed to you and you can drink it away the first two weeks of each month. Illegal? no problem Wa is one of two states that will give you a drivers license, a beautiful "newly built" apartment complex in Tacoma houses only illegals (180 units) each person collects over $1500 a month from Social Security (and they wonder why its in the red?) now you have a socialist that wants higher wages? Socialism is fantastic until you run out of someone Else's money!
Her election is the result of letting those vote who have no clue what someone positions are. When she decides to run a small business and make a payroll, then she might understand the cost and effect of raising the minimum wage to 15 an hour. I liked the guy complaining about not being able to pay his phone bill and cable bill. Well welcome to the real world there bud. Just maybe you should reduce the cash out flow by getting rid of all the bells and whistles on your phone.
Damn it's disgusting to hear and see those that feel they are just entitled to have more just because.
How about developing marketable skills to allow for buying life's little luxuries?
Great idea....for the folks living on the Washington border who work in WA but live in OR or Idaho. Of course, once the businesses have to close, it will affect people in a tri-state area, but as long as if FEELS good.....right?
This is how effing stupid Sawant and all the other progressives are who support ever increasing minimum wages.
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Teen-Unemployment.pdf
This study was written two years ago.
Innit she the one who advocated the state confiscating the Boeing factory, "giving" it to the "workers" so they could build green buses or some such hooey?
yup
https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?lc=gVeFYGheKuRNsUNLHeUuMsxbg2HAgLadw-TYjgGQ5aw&v=KCmJUobwKQk
We all know how well that works out.
Hah, top of the page, no efin' duh:
Key Findings
1. Washington’s teen unemployment rate is tied for sixth highest among the 50 states at 28.7%.
2. Research shows a high minimum wage reduces employment for the least skilled.
3. At $9.04 per hour,Washington law currently imposes the highest state
minimum wage in the nation.
Don´t worry about the minimum wage.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-05/40-us-workers-now-earn-less-1968-minimum-wage
And this moron wants to force higher pay on the employers, which will reduce employment by about another 3-7%.
If she really wants to help poor people by getting them more money, maybe she should go back to India or Pakistan and get a livable wage for her own people.
You know what else? How is it I found that piece in about 10 seconds and the business owners didn't appear to be armed with any empirical (and barely any anecdotal evidence) data to bolster their case?
Even the business owners in Washington are too lazy to do anything to improve their lot?
I can tell from her haircut that she is a old line Trotskyist.
She should change her name from Kshama Sawant to Idiot Savant.
That would require her to have some sort of hidden exceptional talent, that this communist hag is sorely lacking.
Her talent is avoiding work.
Geez, is this broad a complete moron, or just a stupid Socialist.
But then, I repeat myself.
It appears that this woman is just plain challenged. Libtard indeed.
The first sentence explains the issue...
"Seattle socialist Sawant challenged over the minimum wage"
...SOCIALIST. That word tells me what I need to know. Socialists are worthless when it comes to economics because they don't understand economics. They don't understand the value of a dollar. This broad is as dumb as a post. She will never understand what it takes to make a business work, ever. Besides, socialism is a failed experiment, but now that she is here, it will work. Because nobody is as smart as THIS generation of socialists, & they will try again because they actually believe their own BS.
Hey danybhoy, ot but you're a hockey fan, did you see the lady @ a Blue Jackets game who is now famous? Hang on I think it was on Blaze...yep
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/23/kid-learns-why-its-probably-not-a-good-idea-to-bang-on-the-glass-at-a-hockey-game/
Nice clip. Kid had it coming, I would never pound on the glass. In fact it sucks being that close because the glass distorts your view of the game the further to either side you look. Gotta be at least a few rows up if possible.
LMAO!!!