If you just hadn't crawled out of the swamp, that would impress you.
I said nothing about healthcare. I said your politicians are sniveling cowards that haven't the balls to face their number one problem. Worse than ours.
And by the way jackass, the President has a 41% approval rating. About four times that your Teapublican House does.
Ah, patience, my fellow internet traveler. "Jackasses" simply do not realize they are jackasses, and in fact, the very few jackasses I've encountered truly believe themselves to be smarter than Stephen Hawkins and Albert Einstein combined....the poster you're responding to fits this category very well. as do a couple of others on a2k.
You are, of course quite right. That is why I am never disappointed with cj's behavior. It would keep me in constant disappointment if I didn't and then once in a while he impresses me with a smart post, and a chance to kick him in the butt when he does go to far.
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Weekly Address: America Is a Place Where Hard Work Should Be Rewarded (Minimum Wage)
Source: White House
In this week's address, the President made the case for why it's past time to raise the minimum wage. Increasing the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would benefit 28 million Americans, and make our economy stronger. While Republicans in Congress have blocked this commonsense proposal, a large and growing coalition of state and local leaders and owners of businesses large and small have answered the President's call and raised wages for their residents and employees.
This progress is important, but there is more that can be done. No American who works full time should have to raise a family in poverty. That's why the President will continue to push Congress to take action and give America its well-deserved raise.
In this week’s address, the President made the case for why it’s past time to raise the minimum wage. Increasing the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would benefit 28 million Americans, and make our economy stronger. While Republicans in Congress have blocked this commonsense proposal, a large and growing coalition of state and local leaders and owners of businesses large and small have answered the President’s call and raised wages for their residents and employees. This progress is important, but there is more that can be done. No American who works full time should have to raise a family in poverty. That’s why the President will continue to push Congress to take action and give America its well-deserved raise.
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Ask yourself: could you live on $14,500 a year? That’s what someone working full-time on the minimum wage makes. If they’re raising kids, that’s below the poverty line. And that’s not right. A hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay.
Right now, a worker on the federal minimum wage earns $7.25 an hour. It’s time to raise that to $10.10 an hour.
Raising the federal minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents an hour, or ten-ten, would benefit 28 million American workers. 28 million. And these aren’t just high schoolers on their first job. The average worker who would benefit is 35 years old. Most low-wage workers are women. And that extra money would help them pay the bills and provide for their families. It also means they’ll have more money to spend at local businesses – which grows the economy for everyone.
But Congress hasn’t voted to raise the minimum wage in seven years. Seven years. And when it got a vote earlier this year, Republicans flat-out voted “no.” That’s why, since the first time I asked Congress to give America a raise, 13 states, 21 cities and D.C. have gone around Congress to raise their workers’ wages. Five more states have minimum wage initiatives on the ballot next month. More companies are choosing to raise their workers’ wages. A recent survey shows that a majority of small business owners support a gradual increase to ten-ten an hour, too. And I’ve done what I can on my own by requiring federal contractors to pay their workers at least ten-ten an hour.
On Friday, a coalition of citizens – including business leaders, working moms, labor unions, and more than 65 mayors – told Republicans in Congress to stop blocking a raise for millions of hard-working Americans. Because we believe that in America, nobody who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. And I’m going to keep up this fight until we win. Because America deserves a raise right now. And America should forever be a place where your hard work is rewarded.
With the GOP trying to block an increase in the minimum wage and to cut into voters, it seems like a losing proposition when so many continue to support the party that wants to do them harm.
Doesn't make any sense to me, but maybe someone can explain it to me!
Repub Federal Judge Who Approved Photo ID Law in 2008 Writes Devastating Dissent AGAINST Such Laws
Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Who Approved First Photo ID Law in 2008 Writes Devastating Dissent AGAINST Photo ID Voting Restrictions
Judge Richard Posner: 'If the WI legislature says witches are a problem, shall WI courts be permitted to conduct witch trials?'...
If you read just one top-to-bottom dismantling of every supposed premise in support of disenfranchising Photo ID voting restrictions laws, let it be this one!
It is a dissent, released on Friday, written by Judge Richard Posner, the Reagan-appointed 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge who was the one who approved the first such Photo ID law in the country (Indiana's) back in 2008, in the landmark Crawford v. Marion County case which went all the way to the Supreme Court, where Posner's ruling was affirmed.
If there was ever evidence that a jurist could change their mind upon review of additional subsequent evidence, this is it. If there was ever a concise and airtight case made against Photo ID laws and the threat they pose to our most basic right to vote, this is it. If there was ever a treatise revealing such laws for the blatantly partisan shell games that they are, this is it.
Posner's dissent includes a devastating response to virtually every false and/or disingenuous rightwing argument/talking point ever put forth in support of Photo ID voting restrictions...
The police reports from the Palin family's drunken shenanigans have made it online, and they are both entertaining and startling. Here are five of the craziest facts to emerge:
1. The Palins tried to restart the fight with police present:
2. Before the main brawl, Track Palin allegedly started to pick a fight with his dad, Todd Palin (Sarah's husband).
3. At least five witnesses state that Bristol Palin punched the party's host, Korey, "5 or 6 times." The witnesses all confirm that he didn't hit back:
4. A "Heavily intoxicated" Bristol gave differing versions of her story to police. (Korey, the host, is described by police as "moderately intoxicated, and Track Palin as "heavily intoxicated.")
5. There's no record that police interviewed Sarah Palin herself, although she was at the party, according to witnesses. That suggests that she was perhaps not directly involved in any fighting, and/or that the local police hoped to tactfully avoid direct conflict with a prominent politician.
Korey initially told police he wanted to press assault charges against Bristol, but later decided to drop it after speaking with police and finding that no video of the fight had been preserved.
A week after the brawl, Sarah Palin defended Bristol in a Facebook post, calling herself a "proud mama:"
