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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:17:00 PM EDT
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The handful of people this applies to will be giddy.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:17:27 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:17:30 PM EDT
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Paying more = fewer contractors.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:18:13 PM EDT
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Obama-nomics?
You think he will get a submarine named after him, or is he trying for a garbage scow? 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:18:38 PM EDT
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Paying more = increased value? One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:19:20 PM EDT
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Paying more = fewer contractors. Not really. This only applies to future contracts and everyone that's bidding will be doing so against the same numbers. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:19:53 PM EDT
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he’ll work around congressional opposition wherever possible this year.
Ding ding ding |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:20:01 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. You can look up the minimum wages for federal contracts already: http://www.wdol.gov/ |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:20:46 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. $15.27/hr. Other duties in my workplace pay $9/hr. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:20:53 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. Probably janitors and such. The low end of the shipyard workers, those who basically clean up and such. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:21:24 PM EDT
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I just dread seeing who the American people elect next.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:21:47 PM EDT
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Why only $10 per hour? Why not $15 or $20 or more???
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:22:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. I'm going to go with a mostly empty symbolic gesture that his very limited impact as well. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:23:17 PM EDT
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This is the beginning of runaway inflation. Next the shitbags in D.C. will mandate a high minimum wage that will drive the price of everything up. When you can aford to drive to McDonalds, a quarter pounder will cost you $25.00.
Minimum wage jobs are entry level, NOT living wage, raise a family, buy a home jobs. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:23:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why only $10 per hour? Why not $15 or $20 or more??? |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:24:18 PM EDT
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Since most goverment contractors are union and their pay is set above minimum wage by most union contracts I believe it is a raise for a lot more people than we all realize.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:27:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMinimum wage jobs are entry level, NOT living wage, raise a family, buy a home jobs. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:28:01 PM EDT
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Yeah really. I say anything less than $50/hr is just plain mean. And unfair. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Why only $10 per hour? Why not $15 or $20 or more??? Then there is this one as well today - it's not fair for some to make $10 while others make $50 
Link Democrats consider President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday a launching point for a year of sustained assault on Republicans over a populist economic agenda... |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:28:23 PM EDT
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D.C. Thought-process:
Who cares? It isn't my money. Hell... for that matter, its BORROWED money. They operate like one that goes ass-wild on their credit cards because they know they will file bankruptcy on them anyway. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:28:34 PM EDT
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One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Paying more = increased value? One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. lol you think that fucking ratard gives a shit? |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:30:37 PM EDT
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At $10.10 an hour, you will see a huge difference in that double McFucking Cheese.
No more value, just higher costs. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:31:33 PM EDT
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Yeah, screw that pesky Constitution and only Congress being allowed to spend the money. The dictator is getting his coup going and our elected Congress will do nothing. They are becoming more like the Russian Duma under the Politburo in the USSR. Useless.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:31:34 PM EDT
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I thought the House held the purse strings?
Oh, that's the Constitution...... |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:31:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The handful of people this applies to will be giddy. Lots of Union pay scales are based off of Minimum Wage + X. That's the real point. Edited: beat.  |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:32:14 PM EDT
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Obama will sign an executive order lifting the minimum wage only for workers under new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour, the White House said, up from the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. A higher minimum wage for federal contract workers will provide good value for the federal government and hence good value for the taxpayer,” the administration said Link Paying more = increased value? just because they'll get paid more doesnt mean they'll try harder |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:33:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not really. This only applies to future contracts and everyone that's bidding will be doing so against the same numbers. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Paying more = fewer contractors. Not really. This only applies to future contracts and everyone that's bidding will be doing so against the same numbers. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:33:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Paying more = increased value? One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. doesn't it actually lower the value of the work?
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:33:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not really. This only applies to future contracts and everyone that's bidding will be doing so against the same numbers. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Paying more = fewer contractors. Not really. This only applies to future contracts and everyone that's bidding will be doing so against the same numbers. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:35:11 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. They don't. However, Federal Union contract worker's base pay is based off of x% times the minimum wage. It's a payoff for all of those who supported him in the unions. 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:36:19 PM EDT
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Why can't it be you get paid by the work you put forth?
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:36:30 PM EDT
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Lets not pass judgment until we hear what the state of the union is......
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:37:06 PM EDT
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Yeah, screw that pesky Constitution and only Congress being allowed to spend the money. The dictator is getting his coup going and our elected Congress will do nothing. They are becoming more like the Russian Duma under the Politburo in the USSR. Useless. This is just it. I'm wondering if anything will be said in the State of the Union - something to the effect of "look, I don't need you. I just increased minimum wage. Play ball or I do it my way". Of course, it will be phrased in a way to make Republicans look like obstructionists. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:37:55 PM EDT
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and those that actually EARNED their way to that wage? What do THEY get? (almost sounds FSA, but you know what i mean...)
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:38:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol you think that fucking ratard gives a shit? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Paying more = increased value? One point I make about minimum wage is that increasing it doesn't increase the value of the work, only the cost of the work. lol you think that fucking ratard gives a shit? <Inspector Clouseau> ratard <Inspector Clouseau>  |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 3:56:54 PM EDT
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Since most Federal contractors make well over that already, this is just feel-good bulshit.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:01:02 PM EDT
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Why not order that everyone on the contract gets paid the same and foster a new era where people work out of a sense of duty to contribute to the full extent of their ability rather than for money......... lol .....progressive dumbasses bring back 70's era stagflation.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:02:51 PM EDT
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and those that actually EARNED their way to that wage? What do THEY get? (almost sounds FSA, but you know what i mean...) It doesn't almost sound fsa, it is 100% fsa. If you started at $5 per hour, Worked your way up over the years, and earned enough raises to get you to that $10 per hour, and accepted the job based on that wage, then it matters not one bit what other people make, regardless of seniority or merit. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:05:21 PM EDT
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Paying more = increased value? Brought to you by the same party that gave us this gem: "Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program." 
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:21:01 PM EDT
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The handful of people this applies to will be giddy. All union employees - their contract is tied to minimum wage - paybak on an i*O*u.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:23:44 PM EDT
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I just dread seeing who the American people elect next. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:26:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:28:00 PM EDT
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Who works for the federal gov and makes min wage. Thats silly.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:28:19 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:28:51 PM EDT
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I just dread seeing who the American people elect next. "What difference does it make?" is on her way... |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:29:34 PM EDT
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I foresee many who make less than the $10/hr he raised it to getting pissed. Trying to ruffle voter base feathers so they demand action.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:30:30 PM EDT
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How many fast food workers will go out and buy new sneakers, video games , etc. thinking that this applies to them?
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:33:11 PM EDT
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I am glad congress has approved the budget for this. Bigger question - what else is tied to the minimum wage of federal contractors? Changes like this have pesky ripples sometimes.
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:33:53 PM EDT
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Don't we still have the Davis-Bacon Act that covers this, Union scale or some such thing?
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:36:27 PM EDT
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How many Federal contractors work for $7 an hour? I would be surprised if they worked for $10 an hour. it's not like anyone making either of those wages in a gov type job will give a flying fuck about the quality of their work product or service. so yeah no difference, really. |
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Posted: 1/28/2014 4:36:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYES. This is awesome. |
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