Corporate Kleptocracy and a Living Wage 2

2 comments

1. George Smith

   August 10, 2013 at 11:39 am

   The Wall Street Journal had an “explainer” on the politics of increasing the minimum wage to a living wage and you have to realize, straight off, that its news operation is great but that its opinion and editorial work is insane. It boiled down to two ideas — (1), the politicians and people who favor increasing the living wage all work and represent urbua regions where the cost of living is high and the mandated state minimum wage and average of what’s paid are far apart. While the politicians and citizens who don’t want to move the minimum wage to a living wage already have a min wage that is almost a living wage because they live in count-ree or places where the cost of living is low. And never the twain parties shall meet. It neatly omitted the facts that the vast majority of the people in the nation now live where the cost is high and the min wage way too low and that this, proven by census, not a nation where people live in the count-ree in large numbers. Almost everyone now lives in a city or near one. Thus continuing the stalemate argument that the reactionary minority should be allowed to clog up everything, or — vice versa — they literally need running off the stage in all capacities. I love it when some fool from the right tries to make the argument that the polity of Kansas deserves equal weight with that of LA County. 

    
2. Frank

   August 10, 2013 at 3:56 pm

   The WSJ editorial page is the propaganda pulpit for the new robber barons.  They make Charles Krauthammer and Cal Thomas look like inhavitants of the real world.

    

   I think even the WSJ’s MarketWatch website is more balanced than the WSJ editorial pages.

    

   If Kansas is all that great, why don’t all the banksters move there?