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Fox chyron declares "minimum wage hike" to be "terrible for all workers!"

July 18, 2009 12:24 pm ET by MMFA Staff

Fox chyron declares minimum wage hike to be terrible for all workers!

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    • Author by phredicles (July 18, 2009 12:34 pm ET)
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      The minimum wage by now should probably be more like ten or twelve dollars an hour. $7.25/hr is a nice living wage - in 1990. But nice to see even more fairness and balanceditude that usual here.
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      • Author by reanna-mator (July 18, 2009 12:48 pm ET)
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        Agreed; 7.25 is okay if you're a sixteen year old kid looking to save up some money for some shoes or an iPod, but not someone who needs that kind of wage to live off of and who is financially independent.
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      • Author by pete592 (July 18, 2009 1:18 pm ET)
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        Precisely. The minimum wage has not kept pace with output and GDP.
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    • Author by progressiveright (July 18, 2009 1:11 pm ET)
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      How is giving the lowest paid workers a living wage harmful to all Americain workers? It is good for America and its workers not bad. FOX news is the lie network.
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    • Author by captfoster2 (July 18, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
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      WHAT??? How dare the government try and do the right thing for We the People by setting a minimum wage of just under the poverty line...

      I'm so sick and tired of these corporate whores and the brainless twits that blindly follow them.

      There are few things in the world that I actually find myself hating, but I can't help myself but to hate multi-national corporations and their propaganda machine, Fox-Noise!!!

      How can these un-American freaks stare into a camera and speak such lies with a straight face? Money? Power? They hate America? They hate We the People?

      How can it be that there may very well be a few unthinking simple-minded fools that will potentially call me names here at MMfA in defense of these corporate disasters?

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      • Author by bluhawk7398 (July 18, 2009 3:28 pm ET)
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        Hey Capt.,
        me again!! Not that I begrudge raising the minimum wage, I just find it funny that you fret about being called names when you practice the same without cause,,....commentary please?
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        • Author by captfoster2 (July 18, 2009 4:59 pm ET)
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          I just find it funny that you fret about being called names

          I do.... when? If your talking about the last line of my post above... that is not an example. I simply point out that there will very likely be someone that may very well call me names because og my stance. I don't begrudge them, I'm merely pointing out the possibility occurring.

          when you practice the same without cause

          Sometimes name calling makes me feel good, if only for a few brief moments. I have come to discover over the years that sometimes it is not worth the time to try and stay completely above the fray in name calling. I have but only contempt and hate and name calling to give to corporate owned media, right-wing ideologists, and the various people who can look into a camera or type out lies about issues with a straight face.
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    • Author by robrob (July 18, 2009 3:47 pm ET)
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      The screen says "News" but the chryron says "opinion". Does FOX know the difference?
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    • Author by seeryer (July 18, 2009 9:17 pm ET)
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      Fox News has replaced the question marks with exclamation points in the Obama era.
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    • Author by wookie (July 19, 2009 1:23 pm ET)
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      Only if the workers happen to be in corporate boardrooms. Actually their increased buying power could only help each other out. And much better than the Reagan Bush easy credit.
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