I feel fairly confident in now declaring that after having been able to escape one many years ago, I will never, ever, again reside in any state considered to be Blue. From declaring themselves ‘sanctuaries" for illegal aliens, to their penchant for gun control and now quite possibly the moving forward in their quest to drive small business owners to either reduce their number of employees, or completely out of business, by forcing them to pay what is an unreasonable ‘minimum wage, Democrats are slowly making their states uninhabitable. None of these things make the least bit of sense and yet Democrats continue.
So it is then that the very Blue state of Connecticut has now set the stage as being the first state to raise its minimum wage because, or so we’re being told, the lawmakers there were supposedly responding to what the people wanted, according to the state's Democrat Gov. Dannel Malloy. Malloy, in his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, said, "We are the first state in 50 states to do what the people want us to do, and that's to raise the minimum wage to $10.10." Much like Obamacare, the measure passed Thursday without a single Republican vote. Only in this instance I think it was 5 Democrats that joined with the Republicans.
This liberal boob, Malloy, made the imbecilic claim that the increase would somehow help lift full-time workers out of poverty. He said, "This is going to take a whole bunch of people who are working 40 hours a week and living in poverty, out of poverty. That's the goal in Connecticut, to get people working at a job that allows them to support their families." Well, while it may actually help a few, at what cost is this ‘help’ actually likely to come? I mean I’m no genius here, but it would seem to me that if the goal here is to get, and keep, people working, making it more expensive for employers to do so just doesn’t make much sense.
Malloy, who recently appeared with Barry "Almighty" and several other New England governors to tout the proposal, applauded Wednesday's votes, saying he'll sign the bill into law at the same New Britain restaurant where Barry dined earlier this month during a visit. "I am proud that Connecticut is once again a leader on an issue of national importance," Malloy said. "Increasing the minimum wage is not just good for workers, it's also good for business." Well, not really, actually it’s bad for business, very bad. And it makes it more difficult to keep prices down. But I guess that doesn’t matter to folks in Connecticut.
Jack Temple, some policy analyst for the National Employment Law Project, said Connecticut's vote clears the way for other states to pass the legislation, and possibly Congress. "I think the significance cannot be overstated for this," he said. "The more action we see on the state level like this, that's always an ingredient for momentum at the federal level as well." The New York-based nonprofit research and advocacy group said similar proposals are also being considered by lawmakers in Maryland, Massachusetts, Hawaii and elsewhere. Blue states all, or more accurately referred to as, separate enclaves of American socialism.
It was after the vote on Wednesday that Barry "Almighty" was heard to say, "I hope Members of Congress, governors, state legislators and business leaders across our country will follow Connecticut's lead to help ensure that no American who works full time has to raise a family in poverty, and that every American who works hard has the chance to get ahead." All this is, is just another bit of idiotic liberal drivel that, while it might sound nice, like Obamacare will accomplish absolutely nothing of what has been promised by those who first created this legislation nor the idiot who would go on to sign it into law.
Republican lawmakers said the move was the latest in a string of legislation, including mandatory paid medical leave, making Connecticut uncompetitive. "We continue to have this schizophrenic attitude, where we say we're open for business on one hand — small businesses, you're our backbone, you are our heroes," said House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk. "Then we keep taking actions that keep punching them in the gut." And the small businesses in the state can only take so much and at some point I wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing some businesses leave, heading to friendlier territory.
The bill passed the Democratic-controlled General Assembly on largely party lines Wednesday. It passed 21-14 in the Senate and 87-54 in the House. Under current law, Connecticut's minimum wage was already scheduled to climb by 30 cents to $9 on Jan. 1, 2015. But under this bill, it would instead increase to $9.15 an hour. It would go up to $9.60 on Jan. 1, 2016 and to $10.10 on Jan. 1, 2017. Supposedly between 70,000 and 90,000 people earn the minimum wage in Connecticut, and it’s likely that after this law takes effect that number will be reduced, perhaps significantly, with some losing their jobs.
According to a Quinnipiac University Poll released earlier this month, it was 6 in 10 registered Connecticut voters who claimed to support increasing the wage to $10.10 or more. So I’m sure none of these folks will mind, in the least, that now when going to McDonald’s, or the like, they may just end up paying $60 or $70 to feed their family of 4. And I’m just as sure that they won’t have the slightest problem with seeing their taxes go up in order to cover the cost of what are sure to be the ‘benefits’ that will need to be provided to those folks who will lose their jobs in order to allow their former employer to pay those who still are lucky enough to have a job.
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