Minimum Wage 2008
Michele Bachmann's Big Presidential Campaign Walkbacks
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is a firebreather. It's a significant part of her charm. But as polls show her to be a serious candidate in the Iowa caucuses -- and, therefore, the race for the nomination -- Bachmann's been up on TV rounding off some of her sharper edges.
No longer is President Obama "un-American," as Bachmann said in 2008. Nor is eliminating the minimum wage the top priority it was back in 2005. As she steps into the national spotlight -- with the help of big-time campaign strategist Ed Rollins -- Bachmann is presenting a kinder, gentler face.
To do it, she's had to walk back from some of her tougher talk. She's still telling it like it is (that's the charm thing going again) but she's doing it with a softer side.
Let's take the whole anti-American thing for example. Here's what she said in 2008 , during an MSNBC appearance with Chris Matthews: BOB SCHIEFFER: But you're not flatly saying you would abolish the minimum wage. Now you're saying you-- it's something you would look at.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN: I'm-- I'm not saying--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): You're not as sure of that as you were back then?
REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN (overlapping): --I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- I'm not saying that I would be doing that. Stephanopoulos: Let me try one more time, so you are saying that the minimum wage is one of those regulations you'd take a look at, you'd try to eliminate it?
Bachmann: Well what I'm saying is that I think we need to look at all regulations, whatever--whatever ones are inhibiting job growth that's what we need to --
Stephanopoulos: And the minimum wage is one of them?
Bachmann: All regulations George. I think every department. We have just too much expansion of government and so what we need to do is tamp that down so that the American people can keep more of what they make.
Same Bachmann, less divisive kill the minimum wage rhetoric. Such is the stuff of presidential politics for some (unless you're a Republican governor who once tried to clean up greenhouse gas emissions -- then you shoot to the extreme .)
Speaking of extremes, there's one walkback that's especially Tea Party-tastic. Back in April, when Bachmann's presidential campaign was still a "maybe," Stephanopoulos showed her a copy of what was then the only birth certificate anyone had for Obama. Right then Bachmann backed off her calls for Obama to release the longform.
"I guess it's over," she said. But, as the campaign continues, one imagines that the walkbacks are not.
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No longer is President Obama "un-American," as Bachmann said in 2008. Nor is eliminating the minimum wage the top priority it was back in 2005. As she steps into the national spotlight -- with the help of big-time campaign strategist Ed Rollins
For example, under the language now excised from New Hampshire law, the state minimum wage was $6.50 in 2008 when the federal minimum wage was $5.85, and $7.25 in late 2008 and 2009 before the federal minimum wage rose from $6.55 to $7.25.
Since then, lawmakers have continued to raise the minimum wage. Most recently, Congress increased it in a series of 70-cent increments — to $5.85 an hour in July 2007, $6.55 in July 2008 and $7.25 in July 2009. The first bid to create a national
Malaysia this week became the latest to attempt to put in place a minimum wage law after a new proposal was introduced to the Malaysian Parliament earlier this week. Still, a wage increase might not be the quick fix its proponents claim,
Notice that when the minimum wage was raised in July 2009, overall unemployment had started to level off, while youth unemployment sky-rocketed. We also witnessed a big spike in youth unemployment the last time the minimum wage was raised in July 2008.
What Do You Think of the Minimum Wage? | Center For A Just Society
Shares an interesting perspective on the minimum wage. He is, unsurprisingly, opposed to the minimum wage, and I can sympathize with that. But the statistics he shares are quite interesting. From the piece ( click here to read the article and see the chart he’s referring to ):
The chart above shows the increase in unemployment overall (right axis) and the unemployment rate for workers age 16 to 19 (left axis). The difference between these two numbers usually runs about 10 percent, even in good times. Notice that when the minimum wage was raised in July 2009, overall unemployment had started to level off, while youth unemployment sky-rocketed. We also witnessed a big spike in youth unemployment the last time the minimum wage was raised in July 2008.
It seems intuitive that minimum wage hikes would increase unemployment for the youngest workers. After all, raising the minimum wage doesn’t automatically create money – it makes the cheapest laborers cost more, which makes employers likely to hire fewer workers, which means there are fewer cheap labor jobs for the youngest labor class.
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