If you have an ounce of sense, then you know raising the minimum wage is good for everyone on the bottom rungs of the employment chain. This includes black, white, yellow, and purple people, but that isn’t what is being articulated to the sheep by Fox News and the other right wing, lunatic media outlets. They are painting minimum wage as something much worse.

In order to kill the raising of the minimum wage, which seems to be the right wing agenda lately, you must get the masses of white folks behind the charge. They have to lobby their Congress men and women to get them to vote down the raising of the minimum wage. To do this, they are really turning to some underhanded techniques that  are horrible for their low moral, character selves.

The Minimum Wage Is Just The “Black Teenage Unemployment Act”

That’s right! These clowns are painting the raising of the minimum wage as the “Black Teenage Unemployment Act”. And there is nothing more a poor, unenlightened white person hates more than the thought of black people getting something from the Government or anyone.

It is this sickness the right wing is preying. This claim is being made Art Laffer and supported by the talking heads on the show with him. If you know the name Art Laffer, it is because he is the so-called father of “Trickle Down Economics”, which we know better as piss on the poor and class by the rich after drinking up the profits.

Below is the transcript from the discussion:

JENNA LEE: One of the things you both agree on is maybe looking at minimum wage, and Art, you have an idea for minimum wage that you think could encourage hiring and it involves state government so what is that plan?

LAFFER: Yeah, well the minimum wage makes no sense whatsoever to me. I mean, honestly, it’s just the teenage — black teenage unemployment act and this is the very groups that we need to have jobs not be put out of work because of the minimum wage so I’m really very much in favor of at least for teenagers getting rid of the minimum wage so we can bring them back into the labor force, get them the skills they need to continue being productive members of our society for years and years. I mean, that’s the way I’d go on minimum wage.

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STRAIN: I certainly agree with Art that we should lower the minimum wage for teenagers, I also think we should lower the minimum wage for the long-term unemployed. You know, right now, if you’re a worker and you apply for a job and you’ve been unemployed for 7 months, the firm may say ‘hey, you know, I wonder if there is something about this person maybe previous firms have seen something that I’m not seeing — I’m not going to hire them.’ And the reason that, well a reason that a firm might feel that way is because the government says that you have to take a $7.25 per hour risk on that worker. So if we lower that down to, say, $4 an hour, then the risk is much less to the firm, firms are going to be more likely to hire these workers. Now, I think if we do that, for workers that are heads of households and that are working full time, we don’t want them living in poverty, so, if we’re going to lower the minimum wage for those workers then we need to have some sort of a wage subsidy or an expansion of the earned income tax credit or something to make up the difference.

LEE: I’m going to need a calculator.

Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/08/fox-regular-art-laffer-the-minimum-wage-is-just/197482

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