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Walmart says it will kill plans to build 3 new stores if DC wage bill passes

your opinion is noted ... now your task is to convince well-informed people of that ... good luck ...

No. The well informed already know. It's the coolaid drinking Dems I need to work on.
 
I'm striving to avoid not seeing the forest because the trees are in the way. But whatever was budgeted by Obama/Pelosi still stands. And you seem to like what they've allocated for various government functions. And it does not hold the line on expenses. Much scales with need. Food aid is X. How many qualify is what drives actual cost. So expenses rise organically with population, for a range of non-defense discretionary items, like student loans, education grants, etc, etc.

So if I'm following you, Reid blocking changes Boehner/TeaReps want is a good thing. I am in awe.

This is where you have your difficulty with vision. I never implied I approved of the last budget passed, only that there has been little ability to implement any increases that might otherwise occur. Touting an increase in any entitlement spending should not be considered a feather in the cap of anyone...
 
I didn't even know that was the thread ... in the first place, if Wal-Mart paid their workers over $10 an hour, they would reduce their very high turnover and boost morale and productivity ... if in fact, the $12.50 is a realistic living wage for D.C., then I applaud the council, who, if other councils joined them, are serving workers' interest in the long run ... someone has to take the lead ... it'll be interesting to see what Wal-Mart does ... they weren't telling Wal-Mart they didn't want their jobs, rather Wal-Mart was trying to hold the city hostage by threatening to pull out ... think of it as giving in to terrorists (economic terrorists in this case) demands ... it's not a good idea ... I suggest they stay, pay their workers a living wage, boost morale, boost productivity, lower turnover, and just ask Wal-Mart's CEO to take a little less ... instead of making 1,034 times more than the median Wal-Mart worker, how about he makes 597 times, as Target's CEO makes, who has the second highest pay ratio ... I read somewhere that roughly half of Wal-Mart's worker live under the poverty line ... anyway, here are even better ratios - Amazon.com 18:1
Sunoco 15:1
Microsoft 12:1

Actually, it was the council acting like terrorists as Walmart already had three of six planned stores under construction when this action was taken and was specifically targeted at new store openings...
 
This is where you have your difficulty with vision. I never implied I approved of the last budget passed, only that there has been little ability to implement any increases that might otherwise occur. Touting an increase in any entitlement spending should not be considered a feather in the cap of anyone...

If the best thing Obama, Reid and Pelosi have done is not allow passage of Boehner/TeaRep budgets, it must be what we had before was better, which indeed is an Obama/Pelosi budget, which sailed right through the Reid super-majority controlled Senate.

You may like them more than you think, and even more than I do.
 
If the best thing Obama, Reid and Pelosi have done is not allow passage of Boehner/TeaRep budgets, it must be what we had before was better, which indeed is an Obama/Pelosi budget, which sailed right through the Reid super-majority controlled Senate.

You may like them more than you think, and even more than I do.

They are your glasses. See things as you wish...
 
They are your glasses. See things as you wish...

I cannot see. Jeez, Pauly; I'm getting misty here. Imagine us both being tickled that Obama/Reid/Pelosi kept them Tea Party loons contained, following the Tea Party Revolution that wasn't.

Thankgod for their (Obama/Reid/Pelosi -- man I just like typing their names!!!) hard efforts to make the Tea-infused Boehner Congress entirely moot. The emotion is overtaking me. Now where did I put those tissues?
 
Actually, it was the council acting like terrorists as Walmart already had three of six planned stores under construction when this action was taken and was specifically targeted at new store openings...

things are back to normal Paul ... we disagree - sorry if I think a CEO making over 1000 times the median earnings of her/his workers, many of them working full time and still living in poverty, is obscene ... $12.50 an hour puts you at $26,000 a year, family of four, in D.C.? The poverty threshhold is $23,550 for a family of four ... $27,570 for a family of five ... $12.50 sounds low when you put it like that, no? ...

I know, I know, that's the "free" enterprise system ... if they don't like it, don't work there ... no need for anyone to tell me that, I'm very familiar with the social darwinist response ...
 
I cannot see. Jeez, Pauly; I'm getting misty here. Imagine us both being tickled that Obama/Reid/Pelosi kept them Tea Party loons contained, following the Tea Party Revolution that wasn't.

Thankgod for their (Obama/Reid/Pelosi -- man I just like typing their names!!!) hard efforts to make the Tea-infused Boehner Congress entirely moot. The emotion is overtaking me. Now where did I put those tissues?

The desire for bringing random, extraneous posits into the discussion is duly noted. Let me know when you care to discuss actual issues...
 
things are back to normal Paul ... we disagree - sorry if I think a CEO making over 1000 times the median earnings of her/his workers, many of them working full time and still living in poverty, is obscene ... $12.50 an hour puts you at $26,000 a year, family of four, in D.C.? The poverty threshhold is $23,550 for a family of four ... $27,570 for a family of five ... $12.50 sounds low when you put it like that, no? ...

I know, I know, that's the "free" enterprise system ... if they don't like it, don't work there ... no need for anyone to tell me that, I'm very familiar with the social darwinist response ...

If you make no more than minimum for your entire life, then you're getting paid more than you're worth.
 
Actually, it was the council acting like terrorists as Walmart already had three of six planned stores under construction when this action was taken and was specifically targeted at new store openings...

A smidge bombastic, Pauly. They didn't fly planes into Walmart. They've proposed that large retailers, among whom Walmart is merely included, pay a decent hourly rate. If that terrorizes you, you might have a slightly overactive fear-response.

Just sayin'
 
things are back to normal Paul ... we disagree - sorry if I think a CEO making over 1000 times the median earnings of her/his workers, many of them working full time and still living in poverty, is obscene ... $12.50 an hour puts you at $26,000 a year, family of four, in D.C.? The poverty threshhold is $23,550 for a family of four ... $27,570 for a family of five ... $12.50 sounds low when you put it like that, no? ...

I know, I know, that's the "free" enterprise system ... if they don't like it, don't work there ... no need for anyone to tell me that, I'm very familiar with the social darwinist response ...

My point didn't relate to actual wages. It was more towards the actions of the council in singling out a particular business for persecution. You know as well as I that wages are a function of supply for the particular skill(s) being sought...
 
The desire for bringing random, extraneous posits into the discussion is duly noted. Let me know when you care to discuss actual issues...

Nah; I'm just having a friggin' ball with your glib little dodge, and how it kicked the door wide open for me to query: blocking Boehner/TeaRep budgets is doing well?

Pure

[can type here; rhymes with "trucking"]

Comedy
 
A smidge bombastic, Pauly. They didn't fly planes into Walmart. They've proposed that large retailers, among whom Walmart is merely included, pay a decent hourly rate. If that terrorizes you, you might have a slightly overactive fear-response.

Just sayin'

Try reading for comprehension next time and take both the posts of each into consideration as to what a reply may be referring...
 
Nah; I'm just having a friggin' ball with your glib little dodge, and how it kicked the door wide open for me to query: blocking Boehner/TeaRep budgets is doing well?

Pure

[can type here; rhymes with "trucking"]

Comedy

Ride the pony. I'm sure you are having fun...
 
Try reading for comprehension next time and take both the posts of each into consideration as to what a reply may be referring...

It's a debate forum. If you get bombastic and call a wage proposal terrorism, then it gets real easy and fun for me.

Just planting seeds.
 
It's a debate forum. If you get bombastic and call a wage proposal terrorism, then it gets real and fun for me.

Just planting seeds.

As previously stated, go back and read for comprehension...
 
I am. Why else come to a debate forum? Think we're doing anything more productive than jacking off?

If you need someone to help you jack off, I would suggest a therapist...
 
As previously stated, go back and read for comprehension...

Okay; I'll take a second read.

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Hmmm? "Actually, it was the council acting like terrorists " = not a good policy or whatever?

Maybe you've pioneered a new concept: poor writing comprehension.

I'm dying here, Pauly. Cut it out before I pop a row of stitches!!!!
 
Okay; I'll take a second read.

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Hmmm? "Actually, it was the council acting like terrorists " = not a good policy or whatever?

Maybe you've pioneered a new concept: poor writing comprehension.

I'm dying here, Pauly. Cut it out before I pop a row of stitches!!!!

Yes, you're dying...
 
If you need someone to help you jack off, I would suggest a therapist...

Most would consider it a better activity, emotionally, than getting your panties in a twist losing debates, badly, on this site.
 
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