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His only specific domestic policy prescription was the minimum wage increase - did you notice that Bush made no mention of that whatsoever in his speech? - and I’m all for that, of course.
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Why would you be all for that? Please explain.
Giving raises to some teenagers while eliminating the jobs of others sounds like a lousy way to beat poverty to me, especially when doing something as simple as adjusting the EITC would have a much bigger impact on those minimum wage workers actually in poverty.
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Jim Webb is my senator, for better or worse, and I don’t think it is too much to ask for better behavior from him. After all, he is supposed to represent me.
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I don’t see anything in the constitution about Senators having to represent a fantasy world in which one pretends that Bush was being polite and Webb was the one being rude. Could you perhaps cite where in the Constitution that duty is listed?
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Why would you be all for that? Please explain.
Giving raises to some teenagers while eliminating the jobs of others sounds like a lousy way to beat poverty to me, especially when doing something as simple as adjusting the EITC would have a much bigger impact on those minimum wage workers actually in poverty.
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Feel free to start a thread on the minimum wage hike if you’re really interested in debating it. I’ll see you there - after I get a response to the question I keep asking you in the ‘message v. messenger’ thread.
In this thread, I meant, “of course” in the sense of “you know where I stand generally, so it won’t surprise you to hear that I favor this.” And I said where I stood on that because John Mace asked me, and I did him the courtesy of replying.
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
In this thread, I meant, “of course” in the sense of “you know where I stand generally, so it won’t surprise you to hear that I favor this.” And I said where I stood on that because John Mace asked me, and I did him the courtesy of replying.
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I’d like to add, since Mr. **Moto **might not be aware of this, that we just had a very long thread on this subject within the last few weeks, so let’s not rehash that subject again so soon, and in this thread.
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
::applause::
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Thank you, thank you. My next number is one you might’ve heard:
MacArthur’s ghost is standing at his post
And keeping Bush from pulling out.
The yellowcake was not found in Iraq
So he’ll look real hard to find it
With a resolution to bind it
When we go next door to take it from Iran
Oh, no!