it is strictly forbidden, and besides, those slackers don't even deserve what they get now. If they really worked hard they would be millionaires.

These are the people they are trying to prevent from voting with the Voter ID laws and other restrictions on voting.

it is as simple as that.

Can you imagine an office worker getting a job and not knowing how to spell or type.
...or a Musician getting on stage and saying "I'm not sure how to play"

AGGGHHH!

Facts and figures have never been important to the Repubs.

I'm forgetting who it was on the Repub side who said this, but it was mentioned that they we're not in the business of dealing with reality so much as "creating reality"? Not to mention, how often do the legislators actually read the bills they are voting on or submitting? Remember the Patriot Act, and what John Conyers said in Farenheit 9-11? What of all of the bills being crafted by ALEC?

It's the only way that they and the Economic Royalty can acquire, and maintain the political power to keep the overwhelming majority stupefyingly ignorant, and indentured servants to a class of super rich predators, aka the 1%.

but they also stated it's too high. How can one convince themselves it's too high when they don't know what the rate is? These people believe what they manifest in their brain not what is reality. They do not have a clue nor care to have one.

but you're wrong!

However, it's usually not stated that clearly!

Perhaps they are failing to express their own thoughts in an accurate way.

The following questions might elicit or evoke revealing replies:

1. Is it possible that the minimum wage levels as currently set have such a small effect that you cannot determine whether the effect is good or whether the effect is bad?

2. Is it a waste of law enforcement resources to investigate allegations of people working for wages below minimum wage and employers employing them for below minimum wage?

3. Would you encourage unemployed people who are represented by you politically (or whom you hope to represent politically) to seek out opportunities to work for below minimum wage?

4. Do laws that restrict or prohibit cruelty to animals go too far? Should a higher level of cruelty to animals be legal?

Did they really state "it is too high"?

The headline of the OP implies that, but that seems to be a distortion. One wants to eliminate it, but the other two seemingly only said that they would not raise it. That is not the same thing as saying it is too high.

Seems to me that the headline writer made that up, and you believed it. You cannot prove it, but you are not gonna change your mind.

What a crock.

too low, too high, and juuuust right

Saying that they do NOT want to raise it is simply NOT the same thing as saying they want to lower it.

A person does NOT say that when they think the quantity in question is just right.

And if you insist on giving Republicans WAY more benefit of doubt than they deserve and claim that's "dubious," there's "I don’t think the government should be setting prices on wages in any way shape or form" - which leaves absolutely no margin for doubt. That person does want to lower it. To zero.

That is saying it's too high. The other one tip toed around this issue but she don't fool me. She would like to see it lowered.

I didn't watch the video and the articles did a poor job of quoting them. I only have one set of speakers and my music is all on my old computer. So I prefer text to video. The articles should have quotes to back up their title.

posting some comments on their Facebook page about how poorly they fared when asked that question.

Or perhaps a comment on their Facebook page suggesting they live on minimum wage for a while longer before running for Senate.

https://www.facebook.com/BrunnerForMO

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-Steelman

https://www.facebook.com/supportakin

Make congressional salaries a fixed multiple of the minimum wage. That'll make sure congressmen know what it is, and it'll also ensure that it gets raised regularly.

There should be a cap on a candidates net worth before they file to run for any office.


Yeah, sure. Congress would sponsor a bill like that and run it through both House and
Senate and eventually make it the law of the land ... maybe when hell freezes over.

Bellevue City Council $11,000 a year btw.

And the people pulling the strings know damn fucking well what our wages are and are doing anything they can to suppress our knowledge of what theyre doing to our wages. The simple fact is the billionaire fucking thieves are in charge and they've rigged the system to keep us from finding out the real truth about the fact that they're robbing us blind and getting away with it. The Kochs and their ilk have won and they're playing us for chumps by electing the biggest idiots they can find and whining relentlessly when things don't go their way.