Linda Chavez Opposes Minimum Wage Increase, but Doesn't Know Minimum Wage

[Sandpiper]

Here's a perfect example of someone being so programmed by ideology that they've became a bot.

Linda Chavez is certain that raising minimum wage is a bad idea, but couldn't even tell Dennis Miller what the current minimum wage is!!!

And this woman was Bush's Secretary of Labor nominee!!!!



Former Labor secretary nominee Linda Chavez did not know the minimum wage

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Chavez was a guest on CNBC's Dennis Miller June 18:

CHAVEZ: We are a productive enough country that most people who are in minimum wage jobs are there temporarily. It takes time to climb that ladder, they may be immigrants, and after a few years in this country they'll climb higher, or they may be young people who will move onto better things. ... The problem with raising the minimum wage is if you make the minimum wage beyond what the market really will bear, then you'll end up having employers hiring fewer people, and so you'll have people earning a little bit more money in those jobs, but you'll have fewer of those jobs. So it ends up hurting people, and it ends up hurting blacks and Latinos the most, and young people.

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When host Dennis Miller asked Chavez what the actual minimum wage currently is, Chavez didn't know:

CHAVEZ: You know, I don't know what it is, it's $5-something, $5.65, something like that an hour.

In reality, the current federal minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, where it has stood for the past seven years -- the second-longest span of time that the minimum wage has gone unchanged since its implementation in 1938. At the current rate, a full-time worker earns approximately $10,712 a year.

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[BlueJazz]

1. I believe the longest time the minimum wage was not ....

..raise was under that darling humanitarian, Ronald Rage-in.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Truly abominable.

I hope there's a clip for this. It exemplifies the way that Republicans do business, er... I mean, run the government.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

3. What a skank

Proving that there's no barrel that can't be scraped that won't produce a right-wing pundit. What a breath-taking lack of knowledge on the part of a so-called expert.