Put 'em on welfare

As long as this disgrace to the office of the Presidency continues to lie, I'm going to continue to write blogs to call him out on his disgraceful lies and policies. Yes, it's only February, 2013, but the vote for the House and Senate in 2014 will be here before we know it. It's not too early to start becoming ready folks.

If any of us had a rich uncle that was so generous with his millions, and told you he would "take care of you", and you didn't have to work, of course if you were lazy you'd be bowing at his feet. The operative word here is lazy. Remember the old saying that people don't want a hand out; they want a hand up to stand on their own two feet?

Well, Obie is reversing that, especially with his raising of minimum wages from $7.25 to $9.00. Doing that is just another diet of constant Kool-Aid, especially to our younger generation. Did  you hear Obie in his State of Obie message on Tuesday? He said, "we must raise minimum wage, so people can live better".  Obie, you will not garner more young generation votes that way.

I'll tell you why: History and statistics reveal that when you raise the minimum wages, the unemployment among young people rises substantially. Employers cut back hours, lay-off employees, and what happens? Obie's welfare base just grows and grows, and who pays for it?
Of course, we the taxpayers.

Now, logic and common sense will also report that if you lower taxes and lower the minimum wage rate, then small businesses will have the incentive to create more jobs and hire more people. Duh...make sense Obie?

Please remember Obie, minimum wage was created to be a "starting point" for workers, not a constant employment comfort zone.  If you keep raising the minimum wage rate you're not helping employees, you're hurting them. Also remember you make our younger generation lazy if they get "comfortable" on it. Our younger generation needs incentives to break away from minimum wage, strive to get a job that pays more; not be comfortable on it. 

The CBO has reported that when the minimum wage was increased to $7.25 a few years ago, the unemployment among the younger generation jumped to nearly 25%. What does that tell you Obie? It just moved more younger people to the welfare roles, and my taxpayer dollars helped pay for it. Think about it.

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country...and our troops