Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage.....

MMC · May 9, 2014

Moderate Mitt is back.

The former Republican presidential nominee told MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it." He added: "[F]rankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay."

The conservative argument against the minimum wage is that it's a job killer. If businesses can't pay people less than the minimum wage, they just won't bother to hire them at all, or they'll replace them with machinery, or workers overseas. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise — but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage - The Week

I hope Romney isn't thinking about trying to make the dash again......and here what is he trying to do? What say ye?

votemout · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Moderate Mitt is back.

The former Republican presidential nominee told MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it." He added: "[F]rankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay."

The conservative argument against the minimum wage is that it's a job killer. If businesses can't pay people less than the minimum wage, they just won't bother to hire them at all, or they'll replace them with machinery, or workers overseas. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise — but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage - The Week

I hope Romney isn't thinking about trying to make the dash again......and here what is he trying to do? What say ye?

Damn straight it has been a boon for chinese workers.

MMC · May 9, 2014

votemout said:
Damn straight it has been a boon for chinese workers.

Heya VM. :2wave: To top it off he was on MSDNC and saying this. So you know Team BO and the left are just luvin all of this.

votemout · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Heya VM. :2wave: To top it off he was on MSDNC and saying this. So you know Team BO and the left are just luvin all of this.

you Mean MSBSC

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

Nice of him to share his thoughts. I completely disagree with him, however.

Do I think he's running again? Not in a million years, IMO.

Gimmesometruth · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
Nice of him to share his thoughts. I completely disagree with him, however.

By all means, explain why.

I can't wait to hear your bookend to "Janitors are not business support".

Lutherf · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Moderate Mitt is back.

The former Republican presidential nominee told MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it." He added: "[F]rankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay."

The conservative argument against the minimum wage is that it's a job killer. If businesses can't pay people less than the minimum wage, they just won't bother to hire them at all, or they'll replace them with machinery, or workers overseas. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise — but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage - The Week

I hope Romney isn't thinking about trying to make the dash again......and here what is he trying to do? What say ye?

The Republicans have spent the last 15 years trying to be more "middle of the road" than anyone else and the result is that they've become road kill.

I give them an A+ for tenacity and an F- for paying any damned attention to the lessons they've received.

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

Lutherf said:
The Republicans have spent the last 15 years trying to be more "middle of the road" than anyone else and the result is that they've become road kill.

I give them an A+ for tenacity and an F- for paying any damned attention to the lessons they've received.

---------------------------^ This. It's infuriating, isn't it?

notquiteright · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Heya VM To top it off he was on MSDNC and saying this. So you know Team BO and the left are just luvin all of this.

Let's see, a Republican't temporarily breaking away from the extremist right wing ideologues... boost minimum wage so many workers are over the poverty line.

yeah that's just terrible... :roll:

Course the GOP is bipolar on this... social CONs rail against welfare while many businesses see Food stamps, child care, free school lunches, and housing assistance as 'free money' so the worker stays on the job and the rest of us subsidize the wage... :doh

PoS · May 9, 2014

Who cares about that loser.

jamesrage · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Moderate Mitt is back.

The former Republican presidential nominee told MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it." He added: "[F]rankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay."

The conservative argument against the minimum wage is that it's a job killer. If businesses can't pay people less than the minimum wage, they just won't bother to hire them at all, or they'll replace them with machinery, or workers overseas. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise — but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage - The Week

I hope Romney isn't thinking about trying to make the dash again......and here what is he trying to do? What say ye?

He will probably change his mind again. I actually do support a minimum wage increase,but I for one second do not believe Romney actually supports a minimum wage increase.

Minimum wage hike veto rejected - The Boston Globe
The Legislature unanimously overrode Governor Mitt Romney's veto of a minimum wage increase last night, rejecting the governor's view that the boost would hurt businesses and the poor.

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

notquiteright said:
Let's see, a Republican't temporarily breaking away from the extremist right wing ideologues... boost minimum wage so many workers are over the poverty line.

yeah that's just terrible... :roll:

Course the GOP is bipolar on this... social CONs rail against welfare while many businesses see Food stamps, child care, free school lunches, and housing assistance as 'free money' so the worker stays on the job and the rest of us subsidize the wage... :doh

You may want to do a little research on the man. He was never part of the "extremist right wing ideologues" in the first place, so there is no temporary break here.

GailT · May 9, 2014

Lutherf said:
The Republicans have spent the last 15 years trying to be more "middle of the road" than anyone else and the result is that they've become road kill.

On what planet? Eisenhouser was the last middle of the road Repubublican. I disagreed with conservative Republicans like Kemp and Dole on many issues, but at least they were sane, rational people that you could debate. There are no moderate Repubicans left, and very few rational conservative Republicans.

GailT · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
You may want to do a little research on the man. He was never part of the "extremist right wing ideologues" in the first place, so there is no temporary break here.

Romney adopted the rhetoric of extremist right wing ideologues when he was fighting for the nomination, to his everlasting shame.

Lutherf · May 9, 2014

GailT said:
On what planet? Eisenhouser was the last middle of the road Repubublican. I disagreed with conservative Republicans like Kemp and Dole on many issues, but at least they were sane, rational people that you could debate. There are no moderate Repubicans left, and very few rational conservative Republicans.

Eisenhouser? Who was that?

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

Lutherf said:
Eisenhouser? Who was that?

Holy ****. :lamo

MMC · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
Nice of him to share his thoughts. I completely disagree with him, however.

Do I think he's running again? Not in a million years, IMO.

Heya TB

.....some are thinking he might try and make the dash for Governor. Guess where?

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Heya TB

.....some are thinking he might try and make the dash for Governor. Guess where?

Hi MMC! :2wave:

Governor of Mass again? I don't see it either. Governor of the beautiful Live Free or Die State? Not a chance.

Utah?

MMC · May 9, 2014

jamesrage said:
He will probably change his mind again. I actually do support a minimum wage increase,but I for one second do not believe Romney actually supports a minimum wage increase.

Minimum wage hike veto rejected - The Boston Globe
The Legislature unanimously overrode Governor Mitt Romney's veto of a minimum wage increase last night, rejecting the governor's view that the boost would hurt businesses and the poor.

Heya JR :2wave: .....why would you support it. Knowing this.....

but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Which then Prices have to be raised and yada yada yada.....and round we goes and nobody knows, huh? :lol:

MMC · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
Hi MMC! :2wave:

Governor of Mass again? I don't see it either. Governor of the beautiful Live Free or Die State? Not a chance.

Utah?

Think Bigger......Californification, and if not him. Then he is grooming his son.

tres borrachos · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Think Bigger......Californification, and if not him. Then he is grooming his son.

Oh my. Think he could win?

MMC · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
Holy ****. :lamo

.....:2razz:

MMC · May 9, 2014

tres borrachos said:
Oh my. Think he could win?

Arnold won.....just sayin. :mrgreen: I don't know if is going to be him. But I think that's where he is living now. Has to get the time in.....even tho he owns a home there. Thats what some are speculating about.

Moot · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Heya JR :2wave: .....why would you support it. Knowing this.....

but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Which then Prices have to be raised and yada yada yada.....and round we goes and nobody knows, huh? :lol:

After all those years that minimum wage was raised from 25 cents to $7.25 an hour and it didn't hurt the economy one bit. How do you explain that?

Perotista · May 9, 2014

MMC said:
Moderate Mitt is back.

The former Republican presidential nominee told MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it." He added: "[F]rankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay."

The conservative argument against the minimum wage is that it's a job killer. If businesses can't pay people less than the minimum wage, they just won't bother to hire them at all, or they'll replace them with machinery, or workers overseas. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise — but liberals who argue that minimum wage hikes create jobs by boosting consumer incomes are wrong, too. The most recent research concludes minimum wage hikes neither create nor destroy jobs.....snip~

Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage - The Week

I hope Romney isn't thinking about trying to make the dash again......and here what is he trying to do? What say ye?

Perhaps, just perhaps, he may be right about this. Both the left and right are wrong, this wouldn't surprise me a bit. Both side exaggerate so much to make their points they tend to be bordering on down right lies. Perhaps if Mitt had talked like this back 2014, I just might have, maybe considered voting for him. But better late than never.

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