MINIMUM WAGE DEBATE another wolf in sheeps clothing

Another wolf in sheep’s clothing trying to wheedle its way into the 2014 election discussion. 

In an attempt to direct the political discourse away from all the “false” subject matter such as spying on US citizens, and the IRS choosing to audit and harass conservatives groups over liberals at some 280 to7. Fast and Furious, Benghazi and sending armed force against a rancher in Nevada are a couple more questionable subjects. The Democratic political talking points are out to gain votes with the populace need for more income.  Rather than create more jobs by increasing the need for employment, they seek to gain votes from those trying to make a living by working entry level jobs.  The big point they are using to bribe voters is that it is not possible for a family to live on minimum wage employment.  In that belief and statement they are correct. 

The misleading part of that statement is that those jobs are for those entering the workforce for the first time.  Those who have had to drop out of school; those who have to work part-time jobs as they try to gain skills and more education need those jobs.  The supporters of higher minimum wages do not want our young millennial population to know that with a higher minimum wage, the pipeline for improving their own lot is clogged.  The 15 or 16 year old high school student trying to help his family’s economic situation will have lost his entry into the workforce to the college graduate or the main supporter of families with more experience.  Those young people will find it almost impossible to gain the work skills needed to make them a vibrant component of the economic growth and stability of our country.

 I personally believe in a minimum wage, one that allows people an economic lift, one that opens the doors of employment to those needing to gain work experience and one that helps young people learn the value of education and work as means to a better way of life.  Giving them a place to grow stagnant in the complacency of mere existence does nothing to help the individual nor does it help the middle class.  I also believe that the entry wage levels are a viable means of helping with a supplemental income for those looking for better employment and for those who are unable to work in more physically or mentally demanding positions.  Older folks and those with physical and mental challenges need economic supplements to exist.  With the reduction of purchase power, as a result of increasing the money supply rather than employment opportunity, the societal aids of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and disability compensation do not stretch and require part-time employment for subsistence.  If the population lacks incentive to move up in income bracket, the opportunity to fill those needs becomes highly inadequate.

What is used to fool the sheep is just another ruse, another trick in the progressive bag of false hopes, to fool those in need of real systems to make their lives better.  The one who is given fish never learns to fish for his own food and eventually will become a slave to the one who keeps feeding him. 

Until there is no one left with anything to share.

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE

Once again the subject of Benghazi rears its ugly head.  The queen of the Democratic Party made the phrase “what difference does it make?” part of the standard discourse.  Most of the little people, including me, still have unanswered questions.

Anytime the facts of a circumstance are manipulated to change perception to create a false belief, most of us in our daily lives would say, we have been lied to.  Generally, I will refuse to use the words all, anytime or always because they are so absolute and very seldom lead us to the truth. Truth is and should be an absolute.  In the case of Benghazi, the truth of that circumstance has never been accounted for. 

The answer to the question “what difference at this point does it make” requires an answer.  If I were asked this question I would have this answer:  it matters because I don’t like being lied to; I expect honesty from my government; we cannot correct a problem if we are told there is no problem; because of the timing, we as a country may have elected people because of false confidence.  Our country’s standing in the world community is lessened because it is evident that democracy can be easily manipulated by propaganda; most importantly it diminishes the faith and belief that our country stands for what is good in humanity.

Something for us to think about might be how would we react in our personal lives if our friends, spouses, parents, or children manipulated  information constantly to lead us to believe nonexistent facts.  What if they did this to make us perceive them as someone they aren’t?  What do we think about people who sell us products using false claims regarding what those products are or what they can do for us?  How long could we put up with those people being in our lives?

I think most of us are smart enough to know why the facts surrounding Benghazi might have been manipulated.  Why the cause of that heinous act would have looked better if it were caused by a random group of people acting in response to an insult of their religion.  How would it have looked if an incumbent administration looked incompetent just prior to their request to be re-elected?  How would it have looked if a decimated enemy were able to pull off yet another attack on American soil?  We might ask how it looks almost two years later when no one has been held accountable for perpetrating that attack, or for the lack of preparedness, or for the lack of importance placed on the value we call truthfulness.