Dems' Attempt to Raise Min Wage One Penny Met w/Flamethrowers

[dxstone]

Latest Capitol Hill Partisan Wrangle!

Democrats' Attempt to Raise Minimum Wage One Cent Met With Ridicule, Flamethrowers

Democratic Congressman Howard Dean, along with a coalition of like-minded Democrats in the House and Senate, yesterday attempted to force an 'emergency' bill to raise the national minimum wage to a staggering $5.16 per hour--only to find themselves thwarted, ridiculed and, in the case of several dozen of their number, actually set afire.

Photos and full story at
http://presidentevilonline.com/sn_wage.html

[brainshrub]

1. Suggestion to Dems about "Minimum Wage."

Why don't the Democrats stop talking about a "Minimum Wage" and start talking about a "Living Wage."

If the system is going to force most of us to work, the system should at least be forced to pay a sustainable wage to the workers. Anything less is a form of slavery.

[indepat]

10. And every Repuke to the last man or woman knows this and likes it

[Maddy McCall]

2. Congressman Howard Dean?

[katinmn]

7. Well, it is satire so

I think dx can bend the rules just a teeny bit, right?

:)

[dxstone]

21. Noted and fixed!

Too many directions at once; so much to make fun of, so little time...
d
ps: At least my spelling's spot-on! :crazy:

[DistressedAmerican]

22. That Is Better Than I Usually Manage. I Am King Typo! Feel My Wrath!

:toast:

[dxstone]

23. A lil' understanding is always nice too!

Another great new graphic, DA... here's my companion piece to go with it...

MORE Young Monsters In Love!!!



Disasters flirting with other disasters!
Isn't love grand?

[DistressedAmerican]

3. That Was Damn Funny! I Love Your Stuff!

"Compassionate conservatism at work in our nation's capital"

Nice! Kick and Nod!

On edit: Great Execution Of The Flames!. Those are really hard to make look good in my experience.

[alkaline9]

4. i was happy to hear that...

...my state New Jersey is raising their minimum wage to $6.15/hour this October and again to $7.15/hour next October. It only makes sense since we are the most highly taxed state. But $7.15 isn't even a living wage in almost all of NJ... as I'm sure $5.15 isn't nearly a living wage in most parts of the country.

[DistressedAmerican]

6. Welcome To DU alkaline9!

Glad to see you!:toast:

And you are absulutely correct. $5.15 is not a living wage for anyone. I can not believe the rewsistance to raising it after all of these years. Just one more exapmple of politicians lining the pockets of their rich friends with our blood, sweat and tears.

Corrupt fuckers! And this type of corruption is completely legal!

[Mnemosyne]

13. All politicians need

to be forced to live on minimum wage for one year as part of their "service" to the citizens.
Bet we'd get a "living" wage then.

Nice raise they got, idiots. I'd love a job where I could decide my own raises!!

And they are corrupt fuckers DA, we'll just keep on plugging away at them. Somethings gotta give sometime!!

[dxstone]

24. IMHO, they should be forced to eat Reagan cheese the whole year!

Indeed, you're absolutely right; of course, they wouldn't survive a freakin' month, but that would be fine by me too... we NEED some new blood up there; the inbreeding has finally come to a stunning crescendo, when you look at that BUG we call our pretzeldent...

DEVOLUTION IN ACTION!

[Mnemosyne]

25. You are cruel!! Almost forgot Raygun cheese.

Love your sig pics! I hope that's a cockroach! lmao!

[Mnemosyne]

14. Welcome to DU alkaline9!

:toast: :hi:

[katinmn]

8. I like the Pelosi photo/cutline, too

:P

[katinmn]

5. LOL! Kicked and nominated for making me laugh.

:rofl:

[unhappycamper]

9. Mighty fine work, dx

Kicked and nominated.

:kick:

[LiberalEsto]

11. The minimum wage should be indexed to housing costs

Even families earning $50,000 a year are having trouble finding places to live here in the DC suburbs. What on earth do the Korporate Thugs want people to do, live in cardboard shanty-towns? Housing costs have risen disproportionately compared to incomes and it's time for some legislative sanity.

People should be paid, at minimum, enough to afford food and shelter.

[zipplewrath]

17. Paid what they're worth

People should be paid based upon the value of their work, not what the "market will bear" for their work. Minimum wages, living wages, etc. are just an attempt to negotiate for the workers on a hugely collective basis. If people were paid based upon the value of their work to their employer, many laborers would be paid more, and CEO's vastly less. But we currently operate in an environment where wages are competed at the bottom, and not at all at the top. No employer should "fear" a minimum wage because if the employees work isn't worth it, they aren't going to hire anyone. But it is worth it, which is why there are so many of these jobs, and why we have so many folks pouring over the borders to work here, because we NEED them to be here because we need the labor. We out source as much because of the need for labor, as the cost of that labor.

Folks like to claim that if the minimum wage was lower, there would be more jobs. That ignores the fact that there aren't employees to fill those jobs. There is a labor shortage in this country. Yes, we have unemployment, but it is predominately due to a misalignment between the skills and avialability of workers (mostly geographically) and the needs of employers. Companies constantly seek to lower the skills requirement for jobs so that the pool of potential employees is larger, and therefore their cost is lower. In an environment where wages are forced to be high, it puts a premium on the high value, high skilled employee. Employers hate that, not so much because of the cost, but because of the avialability. Ford paid huge wages in his auto factories, because it increased the size of the available work pool. In today's environment, increasing wages doesn't increase the size of the work pool because the worker pool is already basically dry. So they go overseas to where there are large worker pools from which to hire. The skill and quality level may vary but that is compensated through salary variations.

[kliljedahl]

12. Hilarious, coffee all over my monitor

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[erpowers]

15. Joke

Even though this is a joke more Democrats need to point out that while the Republican do not want to raise the minimum wage they raise their pay by about $3,000 dollars every year.

[katinmn]

16. Amazing, isn't it? Especially when 45 million of us have NO

health insurance and at least another 16 million are underinsured, meaning the co-pays keep us away from the doctor's office unless its a life or death situation, can't afford meds, etc.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

18. Hysterical- but...

Don't give them more ideas!

;)

[Richard Steele]

19. LOL!

[dxstone]

20. Thanx y'all, for the intelligent and supportive replies!

Nice to see my little satire evincing such thoughtful responses; don't know what I'd do without DU, one of the last bastions of good humor, excellent taste and marvelous intellect throughout ALL the wide internets...
The whole thing with this ridiculously low and long-stagnant 'minimum wage' (ugghh! it definitely should be LIVING WAGE) really burns me... it's just so emblematic of the crazy Machiavellian leadership and Darwinian cultural philosophies we've allowed our country to devolve into... to speak of equity and fairness now is the ultimate blasphemy; we've become a theocracy that worships the almighty dollar with a fervor we could never really give to any spiritual construct... but mayhap after this long cold Night of the Living Reagan Clones, the tide is finally beginning to turn?... we shall see...
Again, great responses! You do my efforts proud!
d

[DistressedAmerican]

26. Flamethrower Kicking!