{"id":46168,"date":"2014-08-05T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46168"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:57:53","slug":"that-joyous-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46168","title":{"rendered":"That Joyous Moment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…when liberals actually realize they have to pay <\/em>for the “progressive” legislation they demanded.<\/p>\n

A cafe in Stillwater tacked on a “Minimum Wage Fee” to their bills, to show their customers – this being Stillwater, mostly DFLers – what their “generosity” with other peoples’ bottom lines was costing everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sally Jo Sorenson – one of the handful (literally – maybe five, no more than ten) liberal bloggers in Minnesota who don’t belong under police surveillance – just doesn’t like those peasants getting uppity<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The restaurant industry had tried–but failed–to make the case to the Minnesota legislature for a “tip credit” system under which wait staff could be paid less than the new minimum wage. New legislation raised the state’s minimum wage to $8.00\/hr on August 1, with new raises for workers until the wage is $9.50\/hr in August 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Accurized:\u00a0\u00a0The restaurant industry’s case had no more chance of being heard in a legislature dominated by a DFL that owed their union benefactors big bucks than Ice Cube has of\u00a0getting applauded at a Ted Nugent concert.\u00a0\u00a0The minimum wage was going to pass, no matter what.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And once the DFL has spoken, to the left (via Sally Jo Sorenson), people should just shut up and forget all that “free speech” and “protest” crap.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cafe in question should oughtta be careful, of course; next, it’ll be the IRS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reading the smug, PC commenters (as\u00a0if Sorenson\u00a0deigns to print any other kind) is just precious.<\/p>\n

I’d like to find out what the cafe is, so I can grab breakfast there this weekend and thank them for forcing the Minnesota left to marinade in its own cowardly hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…when liberals actually realize they have to pay for the “progressive” legislation they demanded. A cafe in Stillwater tacked on a “Minimum Wage Fee” to their bills, to show their customers – this being Stillwater, mostly DFLers – what their “generosity” with other peoples’ bottom lines was costing everyone.\u00a0 Sally Jo Sorenson – one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,20,308,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-democrats","category-entitled-america","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46168"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46929,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46168\/revisions\/46929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}