10 Consequences of the $15 Minimum Wage

Repeat something often enough and it goes from being an idea to dogma. This is the case of the repeated calls for a massive hike in the minimum wage to $15.00 / hour. Did employees of minimum wage start this? It would certainly lend credence to the authenticity of the demand, if it had. But, who started the $15 minimum wage demand?

In an effort to champion the worker, Democrats started the $15 minimum wage hike rhetoric. The problem was that, then candidate Trump, successfully rescued workers from the Democratic party. Where the democrats conceded that manufacturing and blue collar jobs were gone forever, candidate Trump waved his magic wand, as president Obama called it, and blue collar jobs appeared and the blue collar voters flocked to the republican party.

Of course, follow any money and politics isn't far behind. So the $15 minimum wage rhetoric is the last attempt by the democratic party to wrestle away workers from the republican party.

And it has some great strategy to it. Minimum wage workers aren't blue collar. A lot of Hispanics aren't blue collar, because they're mostly unskilled workers. So you basically kill two birds with one stone.

The problem is that this strategy isn't well thought out. Because, there are consequences to trying to actually raise the minimum wage to $15.00 / hour, versus just talking about it, which a lot of states are now actually doing.

10. where minimum wage is supposed to be paid to unskilled workers with no work experience, $15.00 / hour raises it squarely out of the unskilled market and into the skilled plus experienced market. So as a consequence, workers with no skills and no experience are fired and can't get hired.

9. because the jump to $15.00 / hour is so steep and quick, entire staff rosters are being fired and a much better caliber of worker is hired.

8. in the absence of employees who cannot make the company over and above the $15.00 / hour price tag, owners are now putting in double and triple shift hours in their business.

7. for owners who cannot make up the lack of qualified employees with more time, the business is shut down.

6. entire sectors of the market is being shut down, because that sector operates on a very tight profit margin and a big hike in labor cost like this, is too much.

5. as democrats look to score points with Hispanics, they forgot about unskilled Black workers, who are systematically and historically fired at double the rate of everyone else, so Black voters are turning to the Libertarian party or republican party.

4. as democrats hang their hopes on Hispanic voters, Black voters, who are in direct competition with Hispanic unskilled workers are causing even more competition as the market to hire and fire unskilled workers heats up and Blacks are left out in the cold. Entire neighborhoods are shifting from Black to Hispanic almost overnight, in democratic majority run cities around the country.

3. due to the great depression under Obama, Blacks who were fired were motivated to not seek more jobs, but to open more businesses, at a rate of double that of all other groups. Black business starts dominated the cycle in Obama's second term in office. Unfortunately, these businesses were heavily businesses that operated on a thin profit margin and as the $15.00 / hour labor cost skyrockets, so do Black businesses closing their doors.

2. in areas where the $15 minimum wage has already been implemented, businesses have raised their prices. So these businesses are mostly lower end businesses that minimum wage workers go to and they can't afford the price hikes. So instead of a salary boost, they are now in a city where they can't afford anything.

1. because this $15 minimum wage hike has come on so fast, the salaries of managers and superior staff has had to change, where paying the head restaurant manager who was making $15.00 an hour, now has to be paid $40 or more an hour and that goes down the roster with the lead cashier, assistant manager, etc. which means rate hikes for everything, in businesses that aren't low end, creating an environment where even mid level workers are now having to go without. And, because government workers are literally paid on a percentage of the minimum wage, their salaries go up, which then means city taxes and state taxes have to go up. Now the 1% are impacted, since they pay most of the taxes.

Jokes So Bad They're Hilarious

My wife’s cooking is so bad. In my family we say a prayer AFTER we eat.

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"They sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all."

My wife and I decided only to smoke after sex. I haven't had a cigarette in 10 years but my wife is up to two packs a day.


"My father had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me."

I told my wife I was seeing a psychiatrist.
She said she’s seeing a psychiatrist a bartender and two plumbers

My wife said she wants to have sex in the back seat...she wants me to drive.

I met a girl once.  She was great.  Beautiful. I left her for my wife and kids

I told his landlord that I wanted to live in a more expensive apartment so she raised his rent!

There was a custody battle for me an noone showed up

My wife's cooking was so bad, the flies chipped in to fix the screen door!

"I had an uncle that was sent to the electric chair....he asked me to sit on his lap!"

The doctor said "I'm afraid you have a terrible disease but don't worry we will put you up in a nice room and feed you Lebanese bread and sliced cucumber" I said " Gee doc will that cure me?"  He said "No that's the only thing that will fit under the door".

The doctor asked me "Do you still have the ringing in your ears" ?  -  "I'm even getting busy signals now"

"My doctor told me to take plenty of fluids and get a lot of rest.  I drank until I passed out."

"My wife, she's the worst cook in the world. We have the only dog who begs for Alka-Seltzer".

Elon Musk Amazed Australians Can't Afford Electricity (video)

In a quick 60 Minute Australia segment, interviewing Elon Musk, and the lead up to creating the world's largest battery, the announcer informed Elon Musk that quite a few Australians couldn't afford power, to which Elon Musk reacted with shock and amazement.

From Elon Musk's point of view, there should be no reason that Australia, rich with resources, including oil and coal, should ever have electricity that costs more than the most minuscule amount. On top of that, he said the nation continent was full of renewables like solar, wind, and hydro which they could be exploiting for even more cheap energy.

ANNOUNCING: New Freight Broker Agent on the Market

ANNOUNCING: New Freight Broker Agent on the Market

Here's a story from a CDL instructor, an ex-trucker. He's eating lunch at a truck stop restaurant. The door opens and a large man stands in the doorway. "Does anyone here drive for company?" he hollers. No response. "I SAID, IS THERE A DRIVER HERE FROM company?!" Another big guy, sitting at a booth and eating a meal, responds. "Yeah. I do." "You're blocking the lane," says the driver at the entrance. "Come move your rig." The man eating ignores him. The man in the doorway lumbers across the room. Now he's standing over the table. "I said... you're blocking the lane. Are you gonna move your truck?" "Yeah," says the seated guy, looking up. "I'll move it." He goes back to his meal. "...when I'm done." For several moments, there was silence in the room. Then, the standing driver takes his entire forearm and wipes everything off the table. Plate, cup, utensils, salt & pepper... everything crashes to the floor. "YOU'RE DONE!" he screams. It took many men to pull them apart.

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Why Black Students Fail

Why Black Students Fail

Black economists are baffled why Black children would do worse in school than white children. While I'm not an exclusive economist, my education was much broader and I can explain it clearly.

Let's start with a story set, some 20 years ago. A brand new high school teacher was setup in a classroom. She was told that the kids that sat at the back half of the class were all the smarter kids and typically made the highest grades. This was a lie of course, but that's what she was told.

Miraculously, every single one of those kids at the back half of the class all made A's by the end of the year. That was regardless of race, because the class was diverse and those students were both Black and white. It also was regardless of parental participation in the kids' school life. Which soundless silenced any notion that it is the parent's fault.

Feminists Attacking More Men Directly

 Feminists Attacking More Men Directly

Women are getting pick up artists accounts banned off twitter, YouTube, Facebook. Let's ignore for a second that these companies are agreeing to do this. Pick up artist accounts target men, 100%. Why are these women getting in their business?

That's like a 20 yr old trying to get an AARP rep's account banned.

This type of thing is getting out of hand. People creating drama, with people they have no business even talking to.

I read an article by an Asian woman, born and raised and living in America, complaining about a white pickup artist in Australia, that posted a video of him in Japan. Somehow she got Australia to revoke his visa. Don't ask how that happened.

CONSPIRACY: Who Did Bill Cosby Piss Off to Get This Character Assassination

CONSPIRACY: Who Did Bill Cosby Piss Off to Get This Character Assassination

So, I'm a pretty good judge of character. I also happen to know a tad bit more than the regular average American. I am up on all the "facts" the journalists have. I have determined that this Bill Cosby yellow journalism fiasco is nothing more than Character Assassination.

First, let me say that, unlike most Americans, my memory is long and precise. Where nearly all Americans forget things after 3 months, I can remember, in detail and with full clarity events that happened over a decade ago. What's amazing to me is that there can be news stories that every main stream media outlet carries for an entire week, and 3 months later people will forget them.

Dr. Bill Cosby

News outlets can carry a story, give you a set of "facts" and then 3 months later, carry the same story and give you opposite "facts", and people fall for it.

Camille Cosby Comes Out Swinging Leave My Husband Alone

Camille Cosby Comes Out Swinging Leave My Husband Alone

I watched an interview of Dr. and Mrs. Cosby. UNLIKE ALL THOSE OTHER WIVES, Koby, Tiger, the other Black men accused of rape and infidelity, who sat there just fuming, FUMING, about to explode, Mrs. Cosby was ready to tackle the reporter herself. I could almost hear her say, "sit down Bill I got this." And she was just smiling.

Dr. & Mrs. Cosby

Black women don't smile if their husband is guilty, and you best believe they know. This was not a cheated on woman. She knows this is a scandal and they're trying to take his money. 6 months later and THEY'RE still talking about this.
THE NEWS CYCLE IS ... count em... 7 DAYS. NOTHING, LASTS 6 MONTHS, especially without a court case. People have been beheaded, shot up schools, floods, fires, earthquakes, nuclear power plant meltdowns.... SEVEN DAYS. But the Cosby story is still going strong 6 months later?

#GAMERGATE Leave Black People Out of It You Don't Speak FOR Us

#GAMERGATE Leave Black People Out of It You Don't Speak FOR Us

It is highly offensive to me when white people, with an axe to grind and an ulterior motive of their own, dare to speak FOR Black people. We are not children. We are not goats. We are not slaves. It is not your place to speak for us, nor even to reference us in your little agenda. Oh, sorry, giant agenda, to destroy men, families, heterosexuality.

Leave Black People Out of #gamergate

 In the end, the evidence comes out that these white people are frauds, thieves, and thugs themselves.
Leave Black people out of your mouth. We are not only capable, but reserve the right to bar your from speaking "for" us. It is insulting, offensive, and disgusting that these people think it's their place to do so.

Social Conditioning: Women Making Men Feminine

Social Conditioning: Women Making Men Feminine

SOCIAL CONDITIONING: a term used to describe, among other things, what the entire main stream media does to change men into women. It's so pernicious that men don't even realize that they use feminine terminology today, that they would never even think to use 50 years ago.

One of the most endemic masculine pitfalls men have faced since the rise of feminine social primacy has been the belief that their ready displays of emotional vulnerability will make men more desirable mates for women.

In an era when men are raised from birth to be “in touch with their feminine sides”, and in touch with their emotions, we get generations of men trying to ‘out-emote’ each other as a mating strategy.

Now, I am not a pickup artist, nor am I trying to teach men how to have casual gender, mainly because I don't believe in it, shocking I know, no one ever says that. But, I will point out a few things of how to destroy social conditioning.