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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (487399)11/5/2003 1:05:08 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
townhall.com

Maybe the minimum wage will be paid to the homeless not to defecate in public.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (487399)11/5/2003 1:18:39 PM
From: miraje  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
San Francisco raises minimum wage to $8.50/hour.

That's just great. Just what CA needs, another kick in the pants to business. And I can just hear all the loony left libs whining that it's Bushes fault that all the jobs are disappearing (are you listening, Lizzie??) . Pretty soon all that will be left in CA will be bums, illegals, granola chewers and Hollywood wackos. Add this nuttiness to CA's workers comp mess and this job killing bill that Davis signed...

reviewjournal.com

...California Gov. Gray Davis may have choked job growth in the state when he recently signed a bill mandating that businesses with 20 or more employees provide insurance coverage starting in 2006, one group suggests.

A report from the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C., said it's going to cost businesses $11.4 billion a year, resulting in massive job losses, particularly low-skill workers...