You are right LS. I hope the hell she has enough salt. OOPS I forgot I do reside in Mi. Plenty of brine to go around.

Wouldn't surprise me if she claims she had to eat your boots from having to live on starvation wages and all.

When Shakowsky lives on $7.25 per/hr I will eat my boots. There is no proof and this is nothing more than Natzi propaganda from the horses mouth. Her shame has no bounds.

And there is 24 hours in every day so there is nothing stopping a person from working more than 40 hours. Well nothing except the space between both ears and government policy that slows growth.

the way I was raised, special treatment came from
working well, hard, and persistently -- and from
personal integrity, honesty and such ... how sadly
times have changed. upside down and backwards.
no wonder my moral compass is "radical", now. -- j

Living the wage. What a crock. I'm sick of these assholes feeding into the entitled mind set. Their agenda is obvious. Buying votes to keep power. And the stupid sheep think the rich thieving politicians gives a shit. Pathetic.

I'm starting to think people WANT to be under dogs and cry baby losers... their taught that this how you get special treatment... And they all want to be more special and more needy than the next person like it's a competition to be won. Who's the sorriest looser? "They Don't need it I need it!" "I need it more than you". "No I do." Meanwhile the go getters just want to be left alone to succeed and that's the behavior that gets ridiculed. Everything is backwards.

well, she gets (rather than makes) about $87.50 per
hour, so losing the option to buy something spontaneously
is a real hardship. poor dear, such suffering. -- j

you just look at U.S. history and see how this nation
got to be the strongest on the planet. they are sooooo
blind to this!!! -- j

and when the inevitable inflation sneaks in, from all
of this "quantitative easing", bread will be $15 a loaf
and we'll all be in a 39% tax bracket. it's like BHO's
comment that "electricity prices will necessarily
skyrocket" -- it's intentional. -- j

Yeah not many have the independent brain power to question how many more jobs there would if gov stayed the hell out of the way.

How does one quantify jobs that might have been. They can't. That is why such a simplistic understanding and approach to economics can allow people like this to propagate their nonsense.

She is probably the same person who does not know who we fought in the Revolutionary War. We graduate diplomas, not graduates of higher learning.

I used to watch fox business on Saturday mornings but have given up since they insist upon having economic nitwits as is evidenced by this story.

I could not resist adding my own comment on the Politicrap site:

Jan seems to have a problem with her math. Which explains much about Congress. At $7.25 / hour and a 40 hour work week, in Illinois (her home state) you would net $225 / week, not $77.
But assuming we're talking a food budget of $77/week, even out here in over priced California, I would have no problem feeding myself on that kind of budget.
This Congress critter is clearly out of touch with reality.

She's an idiot who has never had to scrabble to survive. Having to budget, looking for bargains, buying a similar but cheaper product -- all the day-to-day tasks of the average American on a salary of any kind, except, obviously, in her income range. When my BW and me were first married, we counted every penny. We shared a five year old car. (My current on is 9 years old). Today, many years later, we don't need to do that, but we still do. It became ingrained in us by overcoming hardship.
A famous Latin phrase translates as "Through hardship, to the stars." Not "Through undeserved benefits to the stars."

Your right and they all translate to more money for government and less for the producers.

Excellent point. One also has to remember that many other things are pegged to the automatic cost-of-living increases, such as government pay and other government welfare programs.

The only way for people to keep the Press honest is to study the issues themselves rather than rely solely on the Press for their information. Sadly, that really started going downhill in the 60's when people got used to broadcast news that was all run by leftists.

Absolutely right re: Cavuto not nailing her - I'm
a Cavuto fan but so disappointed in his passing
on this...

It's going to take much more than that to make the US competitive.

We also need to consider who the real benefactor is in all these higher wages and that is the government. The more people make, the higher there tax bracket. Inflate to make things more costly, do not adjust the amount you make before hitting a higher tax bracket and more money flows to government.