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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:07 PM Apr 2014

Sen. Cornyn calls $10.10 minimum wage a job killer

WASHINGTON–Giving the millions of Americans making low wages a federally-mandated raise would actually hurt more people that it helps, Sen. John Cornyn says.

A bill that would have raised the nation’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would have eliminated jobs, Cornyn asserted today during his weekly call with reporters, hours after he and fellow Republicans blocked the bill in the Senate.

Democrats have pushed the increase for months. Cornyn and fellow Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, as well as nearly all of their GOP colleagues, voted to block the bill. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the lone Republican to vote to move forward on the bill.

“There’s a much better way to deal with income inequality and low income than the federal government mandating what those wages should be,” Cornyn said.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/04/sen-cornyn-calls-10-10-minimum-wage-a-job-killer.html/ .

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Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
1. "Like giving my buddies more tax breaks!" he exclaims
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:14 PM
Apr 2014

in an unheralded outburst of honesty, but not truth.

shenmue

(38,501 posts)
2. I remember when it was $3.75 an hour
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:15 PM
Apr 2014

He's an idiot.

Republicans say they want you to work their way up. But when you ask for more money, they say it's too much.

What gives? How are you supposed to live if you work but never get more over time?

BeyondGeography

(39,278 posts)
3. It's a bad day for them when they have to broadcast their make-the-pie-higher bullshit
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:17 PM
Apr 2014

At least they had to go on the record with it.

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
4. Great idea
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:20 PM
Apr 2014

Starting tomorrow all Congress members only make $10.09 per hour if they expect to remain employed by us.

 

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)
6. For the Republican Party, the minimum wage is already much too generous, with all its NO BENEFITS
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:26 PM
Apr 2014

and low, low, pay.

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
7. Republican Projectionism at work again, I see.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 10:59 PM
Apr 2014

Sen. Cornyn, YOU are a job-killer, and YOU hurt more people than you help.

Stings, doesn't it?

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
8. There must not be many math majors in the House or Senate.
Thu May 1, 2014, 12:23 AM
May 2014

40 hours a week is 2080 hours a year. At $10.10 an hour, that is a mere $21,008 a year. I would like to see Cornyn try to live on that.

Vogon_Glory

(9,084 posts)
9. I Wonder How Many Texas Workers Are Going To Reward Cornyn This November
Fri May 2, 2014, 09:40 AM
May 2014

I wonder how many Texas workers who are going to take it on the chin from Cornyn's actions are going to reward Senator Cornyn for his vote by staying home this November and let the Republicans send him back to the US Senate so he can spend another six years sticking it to the less-fortunate of Texas and the rest of the US?

You would THINK that even if less-fortunate Texans aren't enthusiastic about whoever gets the Democratic senatorial nomination, they'd go to the polls to punish Cornyn for his votes.

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