Author: W.

Proceed to $15 minimum wage at your own peril ..

“The numbers of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by *3.5 million hours per quarter*. This was reflected both in thousands of job losses and reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs.”

“On average, low-wage workers *lost* $125 per month.”

“This is the official study that was commissioned several years ago by the city of Seattle to study the impacts of raising the minimum wage.”

Seattle’s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City’s Own Study Confirms | Alex Tabarrok

Seattle city government is out with a new NBER paper evaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an hour and it finds significant disemployment effects that on net reduce the incomes of minimum wage workers.

https://fee.org/articles/seattles-minimum-wage-has-been-a-disaster-as-the-citys-own-study-confirms/

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I don’t always participate in every little craze that everyone gets into .. But when it involves ball bearings .. How can I not ..?

I experimented with the fidget spinner and the best combination of lubricants is to first use silicone, displace it with WD-40, and then use compressed air to flush it all out ..

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June 13, 2016: Bush, Obama, Trump, and The Surveillance State

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Automation, Jobs, and Deflation ..

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“You’re Afraid of Power, Not Trump”

https://fee.org/articles/youre-afraid-of-power-not-trump/

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The equivalent of an armed Russian warplane approaching a plane with Secretary of Defense James Mattis on board ..

“A plane carrying Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was buzzed by a NATO F-16 fighter jet as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was seen off by a Russian Sukhoi-27.”

“One of the Russian fighter jets escorting Shoigu’s plane had inserted itself between the defence minister’s plane and the NATO fighter and tilted its wings from side to side to show the weapons it was carrying.”

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It’s not that you guys don’t have a message .. It’s that your message doesn’t appeal to anyone outside your little communist bubble ..

If you want socialism then go national socialism and you’ll pick up votes from the alt-right .. If you want liberalism then go classical liberalism and you’ll pick up votes from the libertarians ..

Your current platform is dead and unappealing to anyone you haven’t already persuaded ..

Michael Moore: Dems have ‘no message, no plan, no leaders’

Liberal activist Michael Moore lashed out at national Democrats on Wednesday after the party fell short in a special House runoff election in Georgia despite spending tens of millions of dollars on a race that was viewed as a referendum on President Trump.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/338811-michael-moore-dems-have-no-message-no-plan-no-leaders

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Democrats .. The party of big money ..

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More fake polls ..

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