Oh for Christ's sake just pick one!

[markjs]

If you don't earn your $7.16 you get fired....simple as that.

 

[Gato_Solo]

If you don't earn your $7.16 you get fired....simple as that.

and then you wind up paying unemployment for that person.

I'll give you some credit for this, though...without a minimum wage, you'd have maximum abuse. That's why unions, bless and curse them, came about.

 

[markjs]

and then you wind up paying unemployment for that person.

I'll give you some credit for this, though...without a minimum wage, you'd have maximum abuse. That's why unions, bless and curse them, came about.

That's just it! Some of the conservatives here can't see that. They seem to think companies would gladly give a fair wage if they had a free for all. I say they'd turn America into a third world nation.

 

[Gato_Solo]

That's just it! Some of the conservatives here can't see that. They seem to think companies would gladly give a fair wage if they had a free for all. I say they'd turn America into a third world nation.

Liberals can't see the other side of the picture...High wages=high cost. The same folks demanding a 'living wage' for all are also griping about prices...can't have it both ways...and that's the problem with most liberals...

 

[markjs]

No I realize that. The minimum is high here because cost of living is high, but there has got to be limits on the minimum wage. That's why I didn't bite on Gonzs ridiculous attempt to bait me about a $20,00 an hour min. wage.

 

[Gonz]

What's ridiculous about it? You want free enterprise to be forced to pay a wage. How about $15./hr?

 

[Gato_Solo]

No I realize that. The minimum is high here because cost of living is high, but there has got to be limits on the minimum wage. That's why I didn't bite on Gonzs ridiculous attempt to bait me about a $20,00 an hour min. wage.

And why is the cost of living high? All of this follows a pattern. If a business in an area with a high cost of living wishes to hire an employee, then that employee's salary/wage willl be higher than a business hiring an employee in an area with a low cost of living. All prices, benefits, and taxes are also proportionally lower. (Except federal...we'll get to that in another thread.) That's the way things are supposed to work in a market economy.

 

[markjs]

Republicans file suit to limit King County recount

SEATTLE — The Washington Republican Party filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court this afternoon to try to stop King County from including certain ballots in its recount for the governor's race.

The party is asking for a temporary restraining order and hopes to have a hearing on Sunday.

The ballots the Republicans want excluded include those rejected by a machine and checked over by hand. The party calls this process "human enhancement," but Bobbie Egan, spokeswoman for King County Records, Elections and Licensing Services, said the party's description of this practice is inaccurate.

Republicans said if a machine kicks out a ballot, the county will try to discern the voters intent. They claim no other county is handling ballots in this way.

Egan said hand counting is necessary and legal in several instances, including torn or crumpled ballots, partially filled in ovals, ballots where a candidate's name is circled or checked, and ballots where a voter changed his or her mind and crossed out one oval and marked another.

She said all counties handle these votes in the same way.

Washington Administrative Code instructs counties to enhance or duplicate ballots rejected where votes are unreadable to ensure that the ballot can be accurately counted, the department wrote in a statement.

"My priority today and for the next four days is to administer this recount in accordance with state election laws," said county elections director Dean Logan, in a statement issued to the media.

"It is in the best interest of voters that we stay above the pressure of the political parties. If the parties believe there is a need to challenge the elections standards practiced throughout the state, the appropriate place to do so is in court," Logan said.

He said both parties are observing the recount and every enhanced or duplicated ballot is considered by a team of two people. Unreadable ballots where voter intent is not clear will be sent to the King County Canvassing Board.

AP-WS-11-20-04 2255EST

Source

 

[Gonz]

Keep counting...someday the Dem will win.

So far (R) 2, (D) 0

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Republican Dino Rossi came out ahead of Democrat Christine Gregoire by just 42 votes Wednesday in the recount for Washington governor, but the Democrats are expected to demand yet another recount.