Probably GTA denizens or, worse, from BC.
You will not find too many Trudeau fans in Alberta.
Drama continues to build in the Senate over the porkulous legislation.
As I posted earlier today, Senator Manchin is insisting on an open amendment process. I have searched:
Nowhere am I able to locate agreement to this Manchin demand by the leaders of his party, Schumer in particular.
If they do not agree it’s no surprise. An open amendment process would seriously threaten the Christmas tree aspects of this Democrat inspired must-pass legislation. Prominent among those aspects is their ridiculous $15/hour minimum wage. Less prominent is money to bail out failed Democrat states and cities.
Note broad bipartisan agreement on portions of the legislation relating to COVID-19 itself is possible. But the Democrats are insisting their unrelated priorities must also pass. Let’s hope it does not happen.
In any event, time is running out for the Democrat liberals. The impeachment trial happens next week. At that point the Senate will shut down and nothing will pass until the trial is over.
I can envision Schumer keeping the Senate in session over the weekend. Democrats will do anything to get their way. Question is, will Republicans stick together? We all know there are frightened and timid cowards in that group.
I prefer you to reflect and correct instead of deflect when someone calls out your bullshit.
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Why is it “ridiculous”? First of all it’s not instant, but gradual over 4 years. Even your beloved Canadian Alberta pays $15 CAD (~$11.81 USD). Most US states already pay more than the federal minimum, which hasn’t been raised since 2009 and hasn’t kept up with inflation.
The only thing that’s ridiculous is claiming that it’s ridiculous. Having taxpayers subsidize the food stamps, healthcare, and other government benefits for people who work minimum wage jobs – also ridiculous.
In a time of pandemic, with small businesses already reeling and with many being forced to close, the last thing we need is attention to the minimum wage. And this is to say nothing of all the jobs which will be lost.
Raise the minimum wage when times are good. That is not now.
Saying I spout BS sounds to me like the kind of personal attack you repeatedly have condemned here.
But do not worry. I expect nothing less from the sorts of Southern California liberals you so perfectly represent. You people are most welcome to your shoulder to shoulder “shake and bake” existences. You live like ants in a very warm anthill located on a vibrator table. 
Jen Psaki, an unattractive woman, vented her homophobia and transphobia less than six months ago. As a reward she was recently named by Biden as his press secretary. Does this point to Biden’s approval and sharing of her anti-LGBT posture?
White House press secretary Jen Psaki is under fire for using a seemingly homophobic slur in a recently uncovered tweet that referred to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., as “LadyG.”
The tweet, from Aug. 5, 2020, was posted as former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Graham chaired.
Psaki tweeted
> “Only in 2020 does #LadyG get to push a bunch of debunked conspiracy theories while questioning @SallyQYates (aka an American hero).”
The term “LadyG” has been used by progressives to mock Graham, whose critics on the left have used homophobic slurs to insinuate the bachelor is a closeted gay man.
Psaki’s tweet appeared to reference claims by gay porn star Sean Harding against a Republican senator he called “LG.”
Psaki, who before her current job, worked as a paid contributor for CNN, had not deleted the tweet as of Wednesday afternoon.
“If you want to know what a media double standard looks like, Jen Psaki, as a CNN employee, can tweet this, get hired to be a White House press secretary, and not even feel compelled to delete it after it was unsurfaced a few days ago,” Fourth Watch editor Steve Krakauer wrote. “She doesn’t care. She’s on the same team.”
A Graham spokesman said he was “disappointed” Psaki would “embrace this style politics.”
“It says more about her than it does about Sen. Graham,” the spokesman, Kevin Bishop, told Fox News.
Many people took to Twitter to condemn Psaki’s tweet after it resurfaced.
Richard Grenell, who as acting director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump became the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet-level position, tweeted
> “Homophobia and intolerance from the Left is growing. This should be widely condemned. @PressSec”
News Busters Managing Editor Curtis Houck tweeted
> “The White House @PressSec joked last year that Lindsey Graham is a trans woman. But because he’s a Republican, CNN and MSNBC won’t raise hell over this. Therefore, they’re okay with actual transphobia.”
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Jen Psaki, an unattractive woman,
I’d be curious to know why think that was a necessary opinion to share with the group.
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Actually I was seeking to go easy. I wanted to say she looks like a horse. But I refrained from expressing that opinion out of pure kindness. Her ugly liberal views also are reflected in her appearance.
Now I have to mention the far larger portion of my post upon which you decided not to comment. You ignored all the important stuff therein. You did this because the truth I posted does not at all fit inside the contours of your liberal viewpoints. When something does not fall within your liberal template you simply ignore it, while trying to divert attention elsewhere. Typical.
Now I have to mention the far larger portion of my post upon which you decided not to comment. You ignored all the important stuff therein. You did this because the truth I posted does not at all fit inside the contours of your liberal viewpoints. When something does not fall within your liberal template you simply ignore it, while trying to divert attention elsewhere. Typical.
You make a lot of assumptions.
I asked a specific question about a specific part of your post that added nothing at all to the discussion and only really served to reflect poorly on you, so I was curious why you felt the need to include it.
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I’m also curious why you felt a need to posted your first remark?
He had his view on her appearance, so I’d say “let it go”, unless you felt impelled to repeat, to make your point known.
Or one unsung dead requires my comment. Quite disgusting, IMO.
Here’s more on the minimum wage.
In short, if the minimum matters (which it won’t, much, in some places where wages are higher, esp higher COL areas), it will lead to job losses among the least experienced, least valuable, and younger (blacker too, can’t do it!) workers as companies and small businesses are unable to pass along costs without reduced demand.
Of course it raises wages for those who are left still employed, but for society it’s better in many ways that everyone should have a job and not that we take the bottom tier of workers and give 3/4 of them a raise while firing the last 1/4 and putting them on welfare. That’s a recipe for more crime, fraud, and civil unrest, never mind the personal impacts of lower self esteem and lack of career prospects for those now out of work entirely.
The kind of liberal bad thinking on this subject is epitomized by this claim:
“No matter where you work in America, if you work full time or 40 hours a week, you should not live in poverty,” he said. “A $15 minimum wage accomplishes that.”
That doesn’t do you much good if you don’t have a job. Here’s one CEO
“I’m not opposed to an increase, but more than a 100% jump is crippling,” he said. “That can’t be absorbed, so it has to be passed on to the customer…and if they can’t afford to buy the service then that means layoffs.”
Nearly half of workers in Arkansas, West Virginia and Louisiana made less than $15 an hour.
Other excepts
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found in a 2019 study that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 could cost 1.3 million Americans their jobs.
It’s a potentially catastrophic policy error,” Kevin Hassett said of the $15 minimum wage. The pandemic, he said, pushed many small businesses to the brink of bankruptcy, but those restaurants and other firms are holding on, expecting profits later this year when the economy can open up. A minimum-wage increase would cut into those expected profits and cause businesses to close, he said. “It’s going to cost a lot of people their jobs.”
It’s always worth asking the alternative question - if a $15/hour is so great, why not $50? Why mot $500? Let the government mandate us all to be rich!
You’ll always have an excuse. If the vaccines work as well as they say, we should be at 70% probably by end of year at current pace (or sooner if things speed up). If government always waited for the perfect time they’d never get anything done. I know you prefer this.
So much for refraining and kindness 
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We hear this argument every time minimum wage is increased, but it never pans out. Sure, some people lose their jobs, but then they find new ones and unemployment rate is pretty much unaffected.
people in WA/Seattle lost jobs when they implemented it at first and in particular those on the low end of the prior min wage. Others also lost hours, even if they didn’t lose their jobs, so the number of full-time-equivalents was down. Giving ppl fewer hours at a higher wage rate and making them working harder/stop slacking off is better, i guess, but it doesn’t make them any more well off.
years later it was less clear and the economy has done well since, so it’s hard to tease those things apart over the longer term. One thing’s for sure - in the middle of very high unemployment from all these govt mandated business shutdowns doesn’t seem like the best time for testing out new policies with very likely negative impacts like higher minimum wages or higher taxes.
If you agree that $500/hour would indeed lead to massive unemployment, you must understand that raising the minimum too much is a bad thing. The question is whether $7 or $10 or $15 or whatever is too much, which is an economics question. I haven’t seen Democrats making that argument - they’re just making emotional appeals like “our poor minimum wage workers have helped us in the pandemic, we should reward them” and similar bunk. Reward them by fiat’ing their job out of existence isnt helping.
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Update
I was wrong . . . at least somewhat wrong.
I found a photo of Psaki smiling. She has a nice smile which is not unattractive and does not resemble a horse.
In fairness to myself I have to observe that, in the course of her duties as Biden’s press secretary, Psaki seldom smiles. I have never seen her do so. And when not smiling . . well . . you know.
In defense of Psaki I must mention that since Biden’s having assumed office, very few thoughtful Americans are smiling. It is difficult to smile when your country is being destroyed by a (supposedly American) President who nevertheless puts Americans last, while China and Central America come first.
I assume you already know very well, Honkinggoose. But for those unaware:
China reneged on the deal and is providing the Canadian vaccine to other countries. This while China continues to hold two Canadian citizens who were jailed without cause.
Trudeau was so smart he made a vaccine deal with a country imprisoning two of his constituents. But not to worry. Trudeau is bailing the situation out. He is backing a new vaccine factory which is to be built in his wildly favored quasi-province, Quebec. You have to wonder whether vaccines manufactured there will go to the rest of Canada . . . . or to France . . . . or perhaps to St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Still Trudeau has it all under control, just like he did with the SNC-Lavalin scandal and all his other malfeasances which center on Quebec at the expense of Canadians who primarily speak English. Trudeau is the quintessential liberal loser . . . . . . or at least he was until Biden assumed office. Now Trudeau has serious competition for that title.
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I make a lot of sense, something I know you would emulate if only you had the capability.