It’s good to see a follow-up to this story; Nancy Pelosi, despite her messiah-like entrance in January as the newly elected House Majority Leader, continues to prove that Democrats were just as slimy as Republicans were when they were in power.
The problem of the minimum wage aside, we need citizen politicians again. No more of these career-bureaucratic nightmares that are transforming this once-grand experiment in democratic-style government into a nation unsure of its own founding principles.
Ugh, sorry to rant, but I had to get it off my chest.
Tom Shakely - 07:05pm on 05/25/2007
The Paul Krugmnan acolytes should arrive shortly to disabuse you of the notion that there are any negative economic consequences of a fiat minimum wage whatsoever. He’s almost as bad as Chomsky when it comes to using edumocation to advance [expletive depleted] failed ideologies.
skh.pcola - 08:05pm on 05/25/2007
Tom: As appealing as your solution sounds, it’s just that govt has fundamentally different incentives than does the free market. Our present political situation is really the responsibility of the voters. We keep electing these greedheads, because we believe they will somehow improve our lives over what we can do by ourselves. As long as a majority of the American people hold that belief, the situation will continue to worsen. We have the means to cleanse the political ranks; we just aren’t doing it.
It’s good to see a follow-up to this story; Nancy Pelosi, despite her messiah-like entrance in January as the newly elected House Majority Leader, continues to prove that Democrats were just as slimy as Republicans were when they were in power.
The problem of the minimum wage aside, we need citizen politicians again. No more of these career-bureaucratic nightmares that are transforming this once-grand experiment in democratic-style government into a nation unsure of its own founding principles.
Ugh, sorry to rant, but I had to get it off my chest.
The Paul Krugmnan acolytes should arrive shortly to disabuse you of the notion that there are any negative economic consequences of a fiat minimum wage whatsoever. He’s almost as bad as Chomsky when it comes to using edumocation to advance [expletive depleted] failed ideologies.
Tom: As appealing as your solution sounds, it’s just that govt has fundamentally different incentives than does the free market. Our present political situation is really the responsibility of the voters. We keep electing these greedheads, because we believe they will somehow improve our lives over what we can do by ourselves. As long as a majority of the American people hold that belief, the situation will continue to worsen. We have the means to cleanse the political ranks; we just aren’t doing it.