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To: i-node who wrote (792340)	6/28/2014 3:00:33 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577893

I have posted links innumerable times on this very thread summarizing the support for what I said As have we. Let's see what ACTUALLY happens in Seattle, eh? seattle.gov

To: i-node who wrote (792340)	6/28/2014 3:03:19 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

That is nonsense and not true. << Me saying it doesn't make it true, but I have posted links innumerable times on this very thread summarizing the support for what I said. Simply put, the most heavily researched area of labor economics is the minimum wage and the proof is conclusive: increased minimum wages hurt the working poor. And the CBO said as much when it found increasing the minimum wage as Obama wanted to do would leave 500,000-1,000,000 jobless while providing minimal improvement in the circumstances of those benefiting from the minimum wage increase. So, while your view may be that small wage increases for a few million are worth allowing 500,000-1,000,000 to become jobless, more rational people comprehend that leaving one person jobless is not better than marginal improvements in the wages of a few.

To: i-node who wrote (792340)	6/28/2014 3:09:39 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577893

Rand Paul: I Won't Send My Son to Iraq SENATOR ADDS THAT HE DOESN'T BLAME OBAMA FOR THE 'MESS' By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff newser.com ( This guy is dumb as a post, but seems to have some savvy handlers, as did W. ) Posted Jun 22, 2014 10:55 AM CDT (NEWSER) – Rand Paul hit the Sunday show circuit today to stake out a position on Iraq that sets him apart from the hawks in his party. "Let's not be involved in the Syrian civil war, and let's not be involved in the Iraq civil war," the senator and potential 2016 contender said in an interview on CNN. While he didn't entirely rule out sending aid to Nouri al-Maliki's government—and said he opposed administration efforts to oust the prime minister—he called Maliki a "feckless" ally. "You have to ask yourself, are you willing to send your son, am I willing to send my son, to take back a city, Mosul, that they weren't willing to defend themselves?" Paul said. "I'm not willing to send my son into that mess." In a Meet the Press interview, Paul also declined to take up Dick Cheney's criticisms of the president. "What's going on now, I don't blame on President Obama," he said. "But I do blame the Iraq War [for] the chaos that is in the Middle East. I also blame those that were for the Iraq War for emboldening Iran." Paul has however criticized Obama for arming rebels in Syria. Foreign policy wasn't the only issue Paul was tacking for the center on: In the Meet the Press appearance, Paul also called for immigration reform. "Border security first, but then we should have something that allows people who want to work in our country who are here to say we will find a place for you," he said.Paul is also pushing to extend voting rights to some non-violent ex-felons, Politico reports, to reclassify some drug-related felonies as misdemeanors, and to help get ex-cons back into the work force. "There’s a racial outcome to the war on drugs," he said. "Three out of four people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses are black and brown."