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Posted: Oct 7, 2010

The party of the paycheck, huh? Whose bonehead idea was this slogan? Clearly not RNC Chair Michael I-don’t-do-policy-only-strategy Steele, who does not even know what the minimum wage rate is. But take heart. He is not alone.

Financial disclosure reports submitted by Linda McMahon, GOP candidate for the US senate from CT, indicate assets with values ranging between $156 million to $400 million , plus a huge chunk of mystery money. Her concept of a family business is the Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., that bastion of sex, violence and steroids. The forms do not even allow for full disclosure of the value of WWE, since the top range that appears on them is the generic $50-million plus category. WWE value is estimated at $1 billion.

When asked what minimum wage in CT is, she did not know, but said “perhaps” some of the WWE employees are paid at that rate. She recently laid of 10% of her workforce, thus insuring that her pittance take-home pay does not fall below its current paltry $46 million annually. She does know that she opposes raises in minimum wage, but would entertain the idea of lowering it, in accordance with National Federation of Independent Businesses express policy, an organization she belongs to and who endorses her.

Joe Miller, GOP US senate candidate from Alaska, thinks that Congress is not authorized to determine minimum wage or pay unemployment benefits, which he seemed to have no problem receiving after his wife was laid off from her clerk’s job in HIS judge magistrate’s office on account of nepotism policies. Miller thinks minimum wage should be abolished, as does his counterpart, John Raese, GOP US senate candidate from West Virginia and Kentucky’s Rand Paul. They are wrong, of course, to claim Congress does not have the authority, at least so says the US Supreme Court (see second link below). Dino Rossi, current GOP US senate candidate, has a clear voting record in his state senate of blocking raises in minimum wage, would advocate lower it or eliminating it all together.

I should mention, polls show two-thirds of Americans support increase in the minimum wage.

If they want to showcase their world reknown hypocrisy, then this slogan is just the ticket. Otherwise, they might want to rethink that (whoops) cat-out-of-the-bag battle cry.

http://hartfordadvocate.com/featured-news/linda-mcmahons-campaign-is-taking-a-big-hit-over-this-lower-the-minimum-wage-stuff

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/153509

http://all247news.com/two-thirds-of-americans-support-increase-in-federal-minimum-wage-poll-finds/6283/

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Once people like you EVER get it through your thick heads - what MINIMUM wage is, you might

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actually understand.. Its a starting point, not meant as a wage to raise a family on. ...and hey, its Nancy Pelosi who just made the idiotic comment about how having people on food stamps helps the economy. She is an embarrassment, especially for women. So, keep trying. With the dems in charge, big Govt taking over more and more, has the economy improved? Nope. Unemployment? nope. Housing market/foreclosures? nope. Give it up for a while. Its not working.

Ummm, lets see here. - Where to begin.

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SBA stimulus loan saved my husbands business after the recession reduced his work load to dribs and drabs. We have since paid the loan in full, and have expanded the business.

In the process, we have hired 2 new people to drive the trucks we were able to buy after the credit score skyrocketed when we paid off the old truck with loan proceeds and paid back the SBA loan. Once we are able to generate the amount of money needed to compensate for health insurance benefits, sick time, vacation, etc., we will be creating a dispatch job for a third person who has been on unemployment benefits for more than a year...that would be me. We expect that to happen around tax time next year.

My best friend qualified for the mortgage relief program and is still living in the same house she has been paying on for 20 years, which was slated for foreclosure after she lost her job caring for her school-aged daughter who has a congenital heart defect. Now that the mandatory coverage for pre-existing conditions for children has kicked in under HCR, she will be signing her daughter up on the policy offered by her new employer. She is planning to schedule her daughter for much needed surgical correction (previously cost-prohibitive) next summer that will restore her daughter's health to near normal and will be using FMLA job protection and vacation time her previous employer did not offer. Food stamps and loans from friends and famly helped keep them alive before she was disqualified (for food stamps) once her unemployment benefits kicked in. I would say these safety nets have worked rather well in her case.

Oh, and BTW, my friend is a woman who was not the least bit embarassed to ask for and accept help on behalf of her daughter when she needed to do so. She also earned every penny of the help she received, having paid into the system for 25 uninterrupted years, before W tanked the economy.

Guess which party she and I are out canvassing neighborhood votes for? This is not a trick question.

Ummm...you are talking in circles. -and you conveniently - forget that W's first 6 years had

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a very good economy (I am not even a Bush voter), then dems took over the last 2 years and economy consistently went downhill and stayed there. Your claims regarding the stimulus are rare, to say the least. It has been a total bust, the HCR is NOT going to make your overall medical care better, foreclosures overall are worse, not better. Just keep touting whatever you wish. Fact is, the USA under Obama is NOT in recovery mode. You also dont EVEN get the point regarding food stamps. The more people on food stamps, the more indication we are in real trouble. Under Obama, we have more people on food stamps than ever. This is NOT a good thing, just a sign of the sad times, unfortunately.

My claims about the stimulus are real, not rare. - Your claim about Ws economy

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on the other hand flies in the face of mountains of data to the contrary. I know. You simply cannot stop yourself from spreading Focks PAC News far and wide. Never mind there is not an ounce of truth in this particular whopper.

Unless and until you can cite some viable sources for this other dubious info, we are left to assume that the remainder of your post is the same unfounded clap-trap from the same outted GOP PAC.

Go preach to the choir. It is the only audience willing to put up with this endless barrage of UN-truths.

Go back and look at history, or go cry in your - soup in November, or both.nm

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Not so fast. These were your claims, not mine. - Cite sources or

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leave them in their natural state...unsubstantiated and disbelieved. Otherwise, we are left to assume you and your party are not even capable of taking a stand in your own defense. Give me hard data, not some vague commandment designed to dodge and place the onus anywhere else except where it belongs. You expelled some bogus blow. Back it up, if you can. Dont, if you cant.

Update: 72,000 stimulus checks went to dead people! - TX

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Oh yes, the Govt does such a good organized job of saving our country. ...and also.. checks went to prison inmates by accident as well.

Another baseless claim in the absence of a - source citation. Booooring.

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I guess you cant do any better than that.

Oh, no!! Its another unfortunate fact. Go watch the news, lady.nm - Hiya

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Been watching news all day long. Not a peep - Which news?

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Care to share?

Here is a link, you people in denial. Also, 17,000 - went to people in prison.

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http://www.startribune.com/politics/104517789.html

You can google and there are MANY reports on these FACTS.

Dead folks dont cash checks or notify the post office - of an address change.

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Just because less than half the checks issued to deceased persons were not recovered, does not mean the checks were cashed or money lost from the treasury, huh? It means the paper the checks were written on is missing, not the funds.

Prison inmates, like the unemployed, are prone to spend money they (according to the article) qualified for in the commissary almost immediately, which provides all sorts of dollar-store type items, such as razors, soap, shampoo, Tampax, cotton, OTC pain relief preparations, first aid items, shaving and medicinal creams, toothbrushes, toothpaste, pens, pencils, stamps, coloring pencils and other art supplies, pencil sharpeners, paper, notebooks, greeting cards, decks of cards, batteries, headphones, T-shirts, boxers, socks, shoes, deodorant, plastic spoons, plastic bowls, coffee, cocoa, creamer, tea, sweetener, sodas, drink mixes, tuna-fish, Ramen Noodles, dried beans, canned jalapeno peppers, tortillas, chips, processed cheeses and meats, peanut butter, jelly, assorted cookies, crackers, canned meat, all sots of sweet convenience-store junk foods, nuts, candy bars, dips, mayo, mustard, salt and pepper. I hear fans are a hot item since there is no AC.

They don't cultivate these items in the prison garden. They actually ship them down the supply chain from the private sector. I trust I do not have to point out what a booming business the prison-industrial complex is in the US, but just in case you have overlooked this reality, it does not outsource its supply chain to any significant degree, helps keep American workers employed and entire towns from going bankrupt.

Lets crunch some numbers, shall we? The 18 million that went to the deceased represents around one-tenth of 1% (0.1384615 percent, to be exact) of the 13 billion dispersed. Since they recovered roughly half of those checks, that would mean that what remains missing is around 7/100ths of 1% (or exactly 0.00692307 percent) of the total dispersal. I think you can see where I am going with this, but allow me to point out that the $4.3 million received by prisoners who qualified for stimulus checks and who rarely leave more than a few dollars in their commissary accounts represents exactly 0.0330769 percent of the $13 billion dispersed.

So lets add the two miniscule percentage numbers (excluding, of course, the portion of checks they DID recover, resulting in no wasted stimulus funds) together to see that margin of error GOP Senator Tom Coburn so vociferously protests. Well, will ya look at that. Turns out to be 0.03999997 of 1 percent, the majority of which is that ethereal vapor paper still floating around in the cosmos but not being spent. Question: What private business can you cite that runs this kind of infinitismal margin of error?

The FACT(S) that the missing checks have not actually been negotiated (resulting in no missing FUNDS) and that the qualifying inmate funds actually ARE acconted for, makes Mr. Coburn the MIS-leader of the week. But we have learned to expect nothing less from the stimulus detractors. After all, he would have looked pretty ridiculous trying to make an issue over the cost of the postage.

So are you FOR government transparency or AGAINST it? This article and the study it describes is a perfect example of exactly that, whether you are able to see that or not. Thank you so much for posting that long awaited link. Just look how far a little context can go toward deflating overblown bogus claims.

Dont think that was the point. Govt is disorganized and - Mary

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wasteful on so many levels, get it? No reason to go on and on. This is a fairly simple concept. -just one more example. It happens over and over. You can tout all the percentages you want, but with the way the Govt handles things, it adds up to a lot of taxpayer money wasted over the years. It could be put to better use, and hey, the stimulus was a total flop anyway all the way around.

According to GOP Tom Coburn the 22.3 mil in falsely alleged costs - was precisely the point.

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You have gone from the precisely specific logic of numbers to the vaguely unsubstantied BS that came before the link to this article was posted. It was not convincing then and, in light of the meticulous logic of the percentages post you so casually pooh-pooh, it is even less convincing now. In this case, I would say that this miniscule margin of error, unmatched anywhere in the private sector, argues in favor of the opposite side of the case you are trying to present.

The stimulus was a total flop all the way around. You are entitled to that opinion, but I can assure you it is not a universal view. For those whose businesses didnt go under because they got SBA loans, whose houses were saved from foreclosure, who came off the unemployment rolls and found a job created by the stimulus, received grants to go to school, are employed by grant-dependent nonprofits such as research, medical and social services and VA facilities, individuals and companies who received tax incentives, Medicaid and COBRA recipients, teachers who saw their salaries boosted, the unemployed, those both able-bodies and disabled receiving job and vocational training, older Americans working in subsidized community service jobs, food banks, constrution workers rebuilding the crmbling infrastruture, public transport workers, and any number of other recipients of these funds not listed here would beg to differ.

We may be invisible and not get the shock media coverage the squeakey wheels get, but we certainly have not forgotten how to vote.

Try this on for size. - Sources here

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Please note what year the unemployment, jobs, and the stock market started floundering.

Tax cuts: A $1.35 trillion tax cut program—one of the largest tax cuts in U.S. history. Bush argued that unspent government funds should be returned to taxpayers, saying "the surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the people’s money." With reports of the threat of recession from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Bush argued that such a tax cut would stimulate the economy and create jobs. By 2003, the economy showed signs of improvement, though job growth remained stagnant. Under the Bush Administration, real GDP grew at an average annual rate of 2.5%, considerably below the average for business cycles from 1949 to 2000. Bush entered office with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 10,587, and the average peaked in October 2007 at over 14,000. When Bush left office, the average was at 7,949, one of the lowest levels of his presidency. Unemployment originally rose from 4.2% in January 2001 to 6.3% in June 2003, but subsequently dropped to 4.5% as of July 2007. By the end of Bush's presidency, unemployment climbed to 7.2%. The perception of Bush's effect on the economy is significantly affected by partisanship.

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet
http://kenhoma.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/from-clinton-to-bush-after-tax-household-income-is-up/

No need to even try when the GOP keep getting - ensnared in their own traps.

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They opened their big mouths and walked straight into this one with their eyes wide open.

LOL!! Dems are in their OWN trap and gonna lose in November.nm - SeeYa

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What is this? The nanny-nanny-boo-boo hour? - Can you or can you not

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defend the hypocrisy found in the records of the pub pols on minimum wage, especially in light of their new-found slogan?

Hello? Dems are predicted to lose BIG next month. - Why is that, huh? -they FAILED.nm

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The more you dodge, the clearer it becomes - that

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you cannot put a square peg into a round hole. GOP the party of paycheck is the claim. GOP record says quite the contrary.

The answer is you cannot defend this party faux pas no matter how hard you try, so you resort to changing the subject nine ways to Sunday, then cutting and running for the exit just as fast as your legs can carry you. Dont expect this strategy to work well this close to election day. Those numbers have started to turn themselves in the other direction and there are still nearly 4 weeks to go before D-Day, plenty of time for the GOP to self destruct under the weight of its own ego, as we can clearly see by this latest doozie of a strategy backfire.

Big Govt (dems policy) leads to dependence ON - Govt. Small Govt (pubs plan) leads more

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to independence and freedom. Thats why the phrase was mentioned. In general terms, it is true. I am an independent, yet I tend to agree with that for the most part.

Psst.. An evil white rich man gave ME a paycheck today. - Alas

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Oh, the horror.

If the GOP has anything further input into this issue - evil white rich men will be

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the only employers left who can afford to issue paychecks. Is this junior-high-school jest the only thing you can come up with in defense of this blatent display of GOP hypocrisy on steroids? Does the GOP ever stop to consider such modern-day contraptions as video tapes, news broadcasts, interviews, transcripts and the legions of historical records kept on what they said, when the said it, their voting records, etc, etc, when bellowing out their latest lameness for all the world to see? I mean, ever, ever?

You are as out of touch as ever. Why will so many dems lose - Frank

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in November, huh? I think the majority of Americans would disagree with your feelings.

So you think elections are won by those - who can most effectively

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dodge the subject at hand and deny their decades-long history of being the party of big business interests, corporations and the wealthy, then turn around in the same breath and lay claim to being the friend of the paycheck-earning middle class working man...and I'm the one who is out of touch here? Hate to break this to ya, but gut-level personal insults to the electorate's collective intelligence, not to mention memories, is not an effective campaign strategy, especially in these post-W apocalyptic years. We are all going out in droves to reinstate the same-ole-same-ole policy machinery? In your dreams, Frank.

Obama fooled the people once, hopefully not again. - TX

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Notice how his democrat friends running this November will not proudly advertise ANY of his policies, stimulus, healthcare? Poor souls drowning because of the President.

Thanks, Obama. Our debt is up a TRILLION next week - We will never be out of the red again.nm

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So, raising the minimum wage, what does that give us - sm

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When I was going to school, I worked for a grocery story and made minimum wage and the of course graduated and got a job making more. Like someone else said it is a starting point. So, let\'s just use some logic here and think about what will happen if the minimum wage goes up. Hmm, my pay will not of course go up, but yet everything else will like groceries, fast food, where the majority of the minimum wage workers are.

So, Linda McMahon. Are you upset that she has business that is worth almost 1 billion. You do realize that her business is worth so much because of us, \"the people\". We buy the dolls, tickets to the shows. My 86-year-old grandmother watches. I mean has a fit if she misses it. It\'s not like the government has put it in her hands, we have. I\'m really surpised you mentioned the whole moral issue when you would obviously vote democratic. I am confused, though. I don\'t remember them supporting steroids. I mean, yeah, if you want to call that violence. I call it fake violence like about any other show on TV. Haven\'t watched in a while, so I wouldn\'t know if they\'ve started having sex scenes on there. I think my grandmother might mention it, though.

I am rather surprised that 2/3 of American\'s support an increased minimum wage. I will have to research those polls and see who was actually polled. I know for one I wasn\'t.

You make great points, especially re minimum wage.nm - BLT

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