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Overthrow the Minimum-Wage Earners!

Ted Kennedy's proposal to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 over three years, offered in the form of an amendment to the defense authorization bill, failed in the Senate last week; no surprise there, alas, though only in the U.S. Senate do you lose even when you win a majority (the measure would have needed 60 votes to pass, but garnered only 52). It was, you see, a vote against oppression: This is "a classic debate between two different philosophies,’’
said Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican. "One philosophy believes in the marketplace, the competitive system…and entrepreneurship. And secondly is the argument that says that government knows better, and the top down mandate works.’’

Posted by James Ridgeway on 06/24/06 at 10:25 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg this | de.licio.us

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Re: "One philosophy believes in the marketplace, the competitive system…and entrepreneurship. And secondly is the argument that says that government knows better, and the top down mandate works."

Isn't that an admission that evolution exists?

After all, going from: "Crap On" to "Piss On" to "Trickle Down" (with its obvious pituitary problems) to "Top Down" seems like a form of "progress"... albeit "Frank Luntz- like progress".

Posted by: AmeriPundit on 06/25/06 at 7:57 PM

One of the Joys of living in a Red state; Isakson is *my* senator. Every time I write to him to complain about something he responds by telling me how proud he is to be a supporter of that.

Used to think "Better Red than dead". But I'm not so sure any more.

Posted by: Dave D on 06/26/06 at 5:00 AM

Right on, Dave D. Happens to me too. I *love* Georgia politics...

Posted by: bonnie on 06/26/06 at 8:49 AM