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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (770185)	2/19/2014 4:55:47 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By dave rose Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574591

"they will lose the production of those 500K and even more money from lost sales." they will automate those jobs, thus no lost production. I see that you have never owned a business. Mr Parasite

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (770185)	2/19/2014 5:01:47 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB steve harris Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574591

SEE IT: Detroit mom opens fire on three Democratic intruders as they try to rob her home (Video) When a trio of armed teens tries to rob this woman’s house they are in for a rude awakening — the woman inside fires a rifle at them in a dramatic incident caught on surveillance camera . Comments (30) By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 9:57 AM [iframe id="bitly_copy_capsule" frameborder="0" style="display: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] wxyz Three teen suspects go for the door, but this mom is ready for them with a firearm locked and loaded. You don't want to mess with this mom! A Detroit woman surprised a trio of armed teen thugs when they came to try and rob her house. Instead of sitting back and watching them steal her stuff, she locked and loaded a rifle — and then fired it as she chased them back outside. The dramatic incident was caught on surveillance camera. wxyz That's no joke! One of the warning shots busted a hole in the wall. Footage shows the three teens trying to kick down her front door. But, as they start to make their way inside, the woman pops up with a gun. She starts firing to try and scare them off, and they all run away. One of the boys, armed with a handgun, tries his luck again and rushes the door. The mom says she didn't hesitate to fight back on her quiet, tree-lined street. But he soon scuttles off again after hearing bullets being fired in his direction. The woman, who does not want to be identified, told WXYZ Detroit she "didn't have time to get scared" as she rushed to protect her children. "I let them know I had a gun once they were in the house and they challenged me and said 'no you don't have a gun' so that's when I shot off the first round," she said. "I wasn't feeling anything at the moment, I got scared afterward," she added. No one was hurt in the incident, and cops arrested the three suspects soon after. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/detroit-mom-fires-intruders-video-article-1.1619522#ixzz2to8pjANI

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (770185)	2/19/2014 5:16:52 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574591

you know if you increase minimum wages companies will pass it along and raise prices, thus it could cost those people more to live. then what increase the minimum wage again ?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (770185)	2/19/2014 6:08:44 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By gamesmistress simplicity Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574591

The answer is simple enough, even for you. 1. If you raise the cost of labor, significant number of jobs will go away because employers around the country will choose to buy automatic potato peelers instead of having minimum wage workers peel potatoes. They will buy automatic drink dispensers instead of having someone stand that and fill drinks for the drive-thru customers. They will have iPads replace order takers. That is not complicated, right? 2. If you raise the cost of the cost labor, those employers who don't replace workers will be forced to raise prices. The idiotic CJ response would be, "Well EVERYONE has to raise prices, so it is no problem." But it IS a problem. Because it results in a couple of mitigations: a) Prices go up. Burgers cost more. And the small increase in marginal cost will be just enough to cause a select number of customers to say, "No way. I'm eating at home." Multiplied by thousands of restaurants and millions of employees and many millions of customers, it translates to lost jobs. Probably far more than CBO acknowledged. But still. b) Prices go up. Customers continue to be willing to pay it because they need or want the product. Those increased costs pass through to consumers, and of course, the people who got the raises are consumers, they have to pay the higher prices themselves (even if another segment of the economy) and so the after-tax benefit is pretty much nothing. The bottom line is government cannot wave its hands and make people better off with a minimum wage. Some people are going to lose big and the tradeoff is not a good one.