Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Star Tribune says Keith Ellison (D-Minneapolis) is pushing for an increase in the minimum wage to $9.50. This is so obviously idiotic I thought it might be the result of a blow to the head during his recent arrest while protesting in favor of illegal aliens. But no, here’s a Youtube video of him from 2007, beating the same dead horse.
But then I realized he might not be an idiot, he might be a stealth advocate for the Zimbabwe approach to managing the national debt. We just re-value the dollar and we declare minimum wage is now 30 bucks an hour. The dollar becomes worth 1/4 what it had been, the debt becomes manageable for another few months since it’s owed in dollars, not real assets, and we can print as many dollars as we want. Viola, problem solved! Plus, it has the advantage of having been invented in Zimbabwe by Black people, so nobody can oppose it without being racisssss.
Give the man credit, he might be more clever than he looks.
Of course, the long-term result still will be the squalor and despair that is ordinary life in Zimbabwe for everyone who is not In Charge. But to the Obama Administration and its minion, Keith Ellison, that might be viewed as a feature, not a bug.
Joe Doakes
Of course it’s a feature.
The DFL has been doing the same thing with Minneapolis and Saint Paul for decades.
“The dollar becomes worth 1/4 what it had been, the debt becomes manageable for another few months since it’s owed in dollars, not real assets, and we can print as many dollars as we want.”
Sounds like Heinrich Brüning and the Wiemar Republic circa 1931
No, he’s not smart. He is just representative of those who elected him. Which, I guess, is what he is supposed to do. Regardless, he’s doing what he set out to do and having a good time doing it. Perhaps idiocy is not a bad thing afterall?
Another one-eyed man who left the kingdom of the blind. At least he won’t be lonely if they allow him to visit the White House.
I’m sorry to hijack this thread, but Mitch has been presented with an important learning opportunity.
I often read here, that Eric Black is a lefty that doesn’t need to be on medication, or something to that effect. Well, here’s how that even tempered, thoughtful Democrat greets the budget deal:
“Borowitz satire: Obama declares National Day of Gloating”
In a bag of lefty assholes, Black is invisible. I now return this thread to it’s originally scheduled topic.
In a just world we’d only be paying Hakim X $9.50/hr.
What do we expect from such a lying, conniving piece of low rent trash like Ellison? This is the same idiot that exhibited his lack of class by calling Chris Fields a scumbag before the election last year. Come to think of it, he has at least one classless follower, too. Of course, I’m talking about the ignorant woman that was stupid enough to call Joe Demos and leave a nasty message on his voice mail from her work phone.
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