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It'll be moot soon.
Nobody is going to work for $7.25 an hour when it doesn't buy them anything.
There is a very large correction coming soon.
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Quote:It will NOT happen. If all the 1,100,000 earning $7.25 or less stopped working, it would be unnoticed. Since the median wage is $67,521 in 2020 and since half the country is earning above $67,521, they aren't going to care what happens unless those who quit work decide to burn down the houses of those earning more than $67,521. Do you think that will happen? I don't.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It'll be moot soon.
Nobody is going to work for $7.25 an hour when it doesn't buy them anything.
There is a very large correction coming soon.
Unless somebody breaks at least a few windows, metaphorically speaking, nothing changes in America. I know how violently anxious Trump voters are against having their windows broken. Trump voters will start shooting poor people to stop them from getting raises. Less violently, Trump voters strongly approve of poor people being homeless just so long as the homeless stay out of Trump voters' neighborhood. Trump voters hate the idea of the poor going directly after the people who won't pay the poor decently. The idea of paying really makes Trump voters mad. Not paying is what Trump voters do. That's why they have no concerns about Trump not paying his real estate and income taxes or his contractors.
Among those paid by the hour, 247,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 865,000 workers had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.1 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.5 percent of all hourly paid workers.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm
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lol... Those damn Trump voters.
Maybe Nancy should donate her illegal insider trading gains to the minimum wage earners.
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SCOTUS Just Blew Up the Voting Rights Act’s Ban on Racial Gerrymandering
On Monday afternoon, the Supreme Court crushed a key component of the Voting Rights Act by halting a lower court order that required Alabama to redraw its racial gerrymander. The court’s intervention in Merrill v. Milligan was so radically unjustified that Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, alongside the three liberals.
Read the whole decision here https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a375_d18f.pdf
But the key paragraph from the dissenting judges is as follows:
Today’s decision is one more in a disconcertingly long line of cases in which this Court uses its shadow docket to signal or make changes in the law, without anything approaching full briefing and argument. Here, the District Court applied established legal principles to an extensive evidentiary record. Its reasoning was careful—indeed, exhaustive—and justified in every respect. To reverse that decision requires upsetting the way Section 2 plaintiffs have for decades—and in line with our caselaw—proved vote-dilution claims. That is a serious matter, which cannot properly occur without thorough consideration. Yet today the Court skips that step, staying the District Court’s order based on the untested and unexplained view that the law needs to change. That decision does a disservice to our own appellate processes, which serve both to constrain and to legitimate the Court’s authority. It does a disservice to the District Court, which meticulously applied this Court’s longstanding voting-rights precedent. And most of all, it does a disservice to Black Alabamians who under that precedent have had their electoral power diminished—in violation of a law this Court once knew to buttress all of American democracy.
You can read the 225 page long District Court decision that was ignored by a 5 to 4 vote in the Supreme Court here: https://redistricting.lls.edu/wp-content/uploads/AL-milligan-20220124-
opinion-and-order-granting-PI.pdf
It is pretty obvious that 5 Republican Supreme Court justices decided that 225 pages was too long; didn't read for them because the 5 wanted to go to an early lunch.
The history of the case in the District Court is here: https://redistricting.lls.edu/case/milligan-v-merrill/
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And I'm sure it wasn't racial at all.
But whenever Democrats don't get their way and can't cheat, they claim "muh racism".
It would really be a shame if you were right this time though. Maybe it would teach you to stop crying wolf.
Because we're done hearing you talk.
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Quote:Yes, obviously the real racists are the Black plantiffs. From the Alabama Court ruling: "Both sets of plaintiffs also suggest, and we agree, that as a practical reality, the evidence of racially polarized voting adduced during the preliminary injunction proceedings suggests that any remedial plan will need to include two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it. Milligan Doc. 103 583; Caster Doc. 97 497." -- Page 213 from https://redistricting.lls.edu/wp-content/uploads/AL-milligan-20220124-
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And I'm sure it wasn't racial at all.
But whenever Democrats don't get their way and can't cheat, they claim "muh racism".
It would really be a shame if you were right this time though. Maybe it would teach you to stop crying wolf.
Because we're done hearing you talk.
opinion-and-order-granting-PI.pdf
It is completely racist that two Alabama Congressional districts should have enough Blacks within to elect a Black Representative. The White people of those districts are being racially discriminated against. Oh, Dear God.
In a 5 to 4 decision the Supreme Court ruled that it is very sad and racist for those White people not being represented by White Representatives.
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The 8-hour day was not won by the kindness of employers deciding to give the 8-hour day or by the initiative of government. Not at all.
The 8-hour day was won by workers in the 19th century and 20th century going out on strike, facing the National Guard and the army, and struggling and changing the conditions of their lives.
https://www.google.com/search?q=8-hour+day+history
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The 8-hour day was not won by the kindness of employers deciding to give the 8-hour day or by the initiative of government. Not at all.
The 8-hour day was won by workers in the 19th century and 20th century going out on strike, facing the National Guard and the army, and struggling and changing the conditions of their lives.
https://www.google.com/search?q=8-hour+day+history
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Oh. You mean what the Freedom Convy is doing in Ottawa right now?
No. Of course you don't mean that. You've been brainwashed to think otherwise.
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Quote:Truckers blocking bridges to US
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh. You mean what the Freedom Convy is doing in Ottawa right now?
No. Of course you don't mean that. You've been brainwashed to think otherwise.
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-trucker-protesters-bridge
Who owns those bridges? The government. This is more like taking Fort Sumter. The Confederates wanted to exercise their "Civil Rights" to own slaves and the best way to do that, besides killing slaves that escape or at least beating slaves, was to steal government property -- Fort Sumter.
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter
The Truckers are the Confederates. The US/Canadian bridges are Fort Sumter. Spreading a fatal disease wherever the Truckers go is the same as killing slaves that act uppity or at least sending slaves to the hospital after a thorough beating with a whip. Truckers who send people to the hospital with Covid are just like the Confederates who harm slaves with whips.
By the way, the Confederates denied doing what they actually did with whips so it is unsurprising that Truckers would deny that people die from Covid. It wasn't that many slaves that were whipped to death or hanged, if you believe the Confederates, and it isn't that many dying from Covid, if you believe the stories Truckers tell.
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Elon Musk Reveals Jaw-Dropping Ignorance About Social Security and the National Debt
True national debt, including unfunded entitlements, is at least $60 trillion – roughly three times the size of the entire US economy. Something has got to give.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 6:25 PM · Feb 10, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1491931362064015360
Musk didn’t say where he got $60 trillion, but you can be pretty sure that it originated from the government’s 2021 report on the status of Social Security, which stated that the program’s “unfunded obligation through the infinite horizon” in present-day dollars is $59.8 trillion.
The same government report that provides the $60 trillion number also gives us, on the same page, the cumulative projected gross domestic product for the U.S. through the infinite horizon. It’s $4,237 trillion. This means, as the report says, that $60 trillion is 1.4 percent of the U.S. GDP during the relevant time frame. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2021/VI_F_infinite.html
Musk’s blathering illustrates how the people at the top of U.S. society just repeat what are essentially billionaire urban legends.
More about the accounting term "infinite horizon" at https://web.archive.org/web/20220211184043/https://theintercept.com/20
22/02/11/elon-musk-social-security/
or at https://theintercept.com/2022/02/11/elon-musk-social-security/
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