brenthutch

Down the path of longer lifespans, less poverty, fewer deaths from natural disasters, greater technology, less war? Because that is the path we are on.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=duck+soup+lying+eyes

Hey, don't say that about NOAA's global temperature chart.

Are you saying that Obama did not obstruct congress? (Fast and Furious) or that he did not lie to the American people? (if you like your healthcare you can keep it)

I didn't read the whole thread so please forgive if this has been shared already. A priest a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar, the bartender looks up and asks, "what is this? Some kind of joke?"

Are you saying they should have impeached Obama for obstruction of Congress and lying to the American people?

Just a senior officer. I am no more than a humble worker bee that was in the right place at the right time.

Given the data was based on the median of a three star restaurant, It says more about you that it does the workers trying to learn job skills and better themselves and their families. Claiming workers in a three star restaurants are providing "shit service"? Classy, real classy.

What are you guys struggling with? Read the article, there are plenty of high tech jobs, plenty of high end service jobs, what is lacking are entry level jobs where a disadvantaged person can develop the skills to better themselves and by extension, society. If you have not noticed California is bifurcating into the haves and have nots. I'm not worried about a software engineer, I am concerned with the welfare of the less fortunate.

Not according to me, according to Harvard. It did not study the impact on the overall economy, it focused on the restaurant industry. And how it adversely affected more modest establishments. It noted that in a 4 or 5 star restaurant the staff was likely making more than the minimum and was not impacted. BTW some of that "significant fall" in unemployment is a result of the exodus of middle class workers to states like Arizona and Texas. In banking we called that "addition through subtraction" https://www.sacbee.com/news/databases/article32679753.html

3.9>3.6 Kallend, can you check my math? Seriously though, by that thinking the Raiders are a better team than the Patriots because they improved more.

Ok California wins the “we still suck but not as bad as we used to” award.

Yes it has but just not as fast and not as far as areas that did not raise the minimum wage. Proving the point.

CA unemployment rate 4.0% national unemployment rate 3.5%.

That was the situation before the minimum wage increase, the only relevant variable. "The losers are the less expensive and lower-ranked restaurants and its employees who increasingly find themselves at risk of losing their job, which makes it even more difficult for them to garner the experience and learn the skills they need to compete for the better paying jobs at the higher quality restaurants (which according to the Harvard study come with the added benefit of much greater job security). Also losing are the new workers trying to enter the job market with little or no skills or experience—they have fewer job opportunities altogether because new restaurants were not opened at all. Also losing are the diners who find themselves with fewer lost cost dining choices. Last year, before signing California’s landmark $15 minimum wage bill, Governor Jerry Brown acknowledged that, “economically, minimum wages may not make sense.” The results of the Harvard study are proving him right." The first rung on the ladder to a better life was just kick out from under the less fortunate. Of course that was the goal from the beginning, keep the poor poor and force them to depend on government handouts for their existence ensuring they continue to vote D. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=obama+bragging+about+food+stamps&view=detail&mid=458608B295060A0EE5AF458608B295060A0EE5AF&FORM=VIRE

#1- The oil industry subsidizes the government not the other way around #2- https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/061919-us-gasoline-demand-reaches-record-high-eia

"I've spent half of my money on booze and skydiving, the rest I've just wasted."

https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/harvard-study-finds-increased-minimum-wages-contribute-to-restaurant-failures-in-californias-bay-area "According to the Harvard study data, a $1 increase in the minimum wage leads to an alarming 14% increase in the likelihood of closure for a restaurant"

https://www.onecountry.com/lifestyle/expensive-wine-not-that-great/

No I just stick to the $20-$60 range. Pay anything more and you are just wasting money (or showing off)

That is what I call progress

That is what I call progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdM1TIQilU More progress