President Obama calls for the minimum wage to be set at $9 dollars an hour. What moron beside this president thinks you can raise a family on $9 an hour?

No Marie didn't say "Let them eat cake." It was most likely Jacques Necker (1732-1804) Louis XVI's Minister of Finance. "Cake" was a disgusting, corn-bread-like concoction that was eaten by poor Parisians as a replacement for real bread made with flour. Necker and his associates placed heavy taxes on flour and other necessities of life to recoup some of the revenue losses incurred via France's disastrous series of wars with England leading up to the 1763 loss of their empire in America ... The Brits racked up a heavy debt also & laid taxes on their American colonists ... The result of that you (might) know ... Tea Party whackos like to compare stif 'er stuff like inheritance taxes and corporate income taxes to the taxes on tea, paper, food, etc. in the 18th century. This is more proof that folks like Norquist and some locals that spout here have never read a history book in their lives!

munster, today is quite a bit different wouldn't you say? there is relatively free education as well as resonably priced higher education for the american citizen should they so choose. many of todays working and non-working poor are there by choice whether through lack of motivation or personal life-choices. those that are mentally challenged to the point of not being able to function in society need to be taken care of as well as our senior citizens. the subsidy baby-makers of society belong to a whole different class of citizen. (i'll play nice on that one) does it not concern you that our politicians with voter support have encouraged so many to be non-contributors to society? i believe that encouragement goes a long way in motivating those to realize their capabilities. so teaching the victim mentality is counter-productive when trying to motivate people toward their own success.

Sorry, you can't put that together . . .

> Marie Antoinette never said 'Let them eat cake' <

Its an analogy ! Sorry you cant put that together ! What it means is that the wealthy elite didnt care what happened to the poor , they were out of touch and had no concept of what the poor were enduring till they finally got fed up and in the end alot of wealthy people lost their heads !

Let Them Eat Cake; er, Brioche. Oh, Nevermind...

Despite what you've heard, Marie Antoinette never said 'Let them eat cake'

By David Emery

Marie Antoinette !Famous last words !

i like cake. whats the problem? munster, i am not sure if the post you commented on was mine or not. either way, the narrative i told is true and just like not so many years ago when the credit cards and cash was flowing, people spent and borrowed well beyond their means without any concern for their future financial state. while education is a great tool to have, this day and time we have the best educated unemployed in recent history. fred can correct me on this but i think that there has never been a better time to be a student when considering the educational opportunities that are avaiable. since the focus on jobs after the education is concern that must be addressed by fostering the climate and availability of less-impeded resources for these recent graduates to realize that properity and personal enrichment can be achieved by investing in job creation for not only themselves and others. do you not agree this would be a positive?

Again the Know Nothing Expert is wrong ! Despite the amazingly inept managmant of hostess riding the company down the tubes , others have stepped up and are making some of the treats they made !$390 Million Hostess Twinkie Deal with Flowers Foods !

Yes , let them eat cake !!

suddenly not be enough. as you will notice, the mere suggestion has prompted many to proclaim it is not enough and it is no even implemented or being seriously considered. raising the minimum wage is not the solution to the overall problem and is a non-starter.

scrappile, you touched on a variable that not many people mention or consider. the church that i used to attend sent food and clothing to communities where the jobs have either moved or ceased to exist. it dawned on me that, although what the church did was very kind and charitable, it did nothing to change their future in a positive way except for that moment. my suggestion was to put our efforts into relocation and employment. our area still has and have a wide variety of employment opportunities for those so inclined. all of this had promise in my mind. the problem....their refusal to leave their "dirt" even though it did not provide for their families needs and kept them in a perpetual need for charity from others just to get from day to day. along with the freedom to move forward comes the freedom to remain staus quo or even regress. such is the nature of freedom. i feel certain that any thinking person would agree that as soon as $9.00 became the minimum, it would sud

Br Right: I can only answer in the way I see happening around these hills and hollows, Do you know how many people are trying to raise families on less than 9$ an hour, lets not be blind about this. In this area of depressed wages it is either work for less or travel to work for more. In Morgan co. they commute the farthest of any workers in the state, their sense of family and love of their little piece of dirt will never let them move. and pre ronnie it was one of the few places where you could go from high school to livable wages.

Fred, I find it funny that these same "people " , when confronted with truth and facts go the ole socialist , communist , maoist, racist, etc,name calling rant and then complain to high heaven when there is a supposed slight towards them !The ole "its OK for me but not you " tactic ! How utterly republican !

Dear scrappile: are you the other one when I asked the question: What moron beside this president thinks you can raise a family on $9 an hour?

Again, while folks like Romney and Paul Ryan (and local retros like the Stiff and rocker) like to call ANY kind of progressive reform "socialism", the system they seem to be proposing is called "feudalism"!

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Be right: many of your thought persuasion think there should be no minimum wage, agree, perhaps it is time to go back to endentured sevitude, or maybe the richest nation on earth should bring back slavery, it is still in existance on parts of the globe, so lets try that again. Beam them up Scottie, oh yeah the chief engineer wouldnt work for minimum wage. Ahead full No.1 leave them in the 19th century

When Romney was waxing poetically at The Get over it your poor convention, he talked grandly about a man who had lost his 22$ an hour job, and was working two jobs, each paid him 9$ an hour, it was oblivious to him the fact that now the man was working 80 hrs. for 720 a week, when he was working 40 hrs for 880 a week. THIS IS WHAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, work twice as long for a little over half as much, meanwhile Romney walks away from millions in debt owed by companies he raided with millions in his pockets, leaving shareholders holding the worthless shares and workers holding nothing not even their dignity and self worth from having a job.

Totally out of touch with reality !

I agree Fred , during the whole election it was all about doing away with this and that and no answers as to exactly what they would have done different or what they would do once they were in ! Just anti-this and that !No solutions !