The Ponderosa: House Votes to Steal The Money of Others

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

House Votes to Steal The Money of Others

House Votes to Boost Minimum Wage to $7.25 an Hour

Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The House of Representatives approved raising the U.S. minimum wage by $2.10 an hour as Congress moves toward passing the first federal increase in a decade for the country's lowest-earning workers.

The Democratic-led House voted 315 to 116 today to boost the national minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 over about two years. The 41 percent increase, which still must be approved by the Senate, wouldn't affect all workers because at least a half dozen states including California and Massachusetts, have, or are set to have, minimum wages above the proposed federal level.

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Our initial headline read "House Dems Vote to Steal The Money of Others" but it seems 75 or so quisling "Republicans" signed on to this legal larceny.

We're so thrilled that the apathetic bimbo who hands us our Double Whopper will be grabbing an extra 2+ dollars per hour to spend on her various piercings.

Drive-thru accuracy will surely improve.

The Ponderosa

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

House Votes to Steal The Money of Others

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