The straw man here is burdening a call for a legitimate set of checks and balances with all the sins real or imagined or just temporary in the economy. It’s bullshit to run a government in a deliberately imbalanced way. That;s why the GOP Senate thing matters. And now I take heat over what you said I advocated in the original Page. Not what i actually advocated in that Page

Another straw man productivity. The minimum wage has never been tied to productivity. Not even inflation. Sometimes productivity falls, you want the wage to fall then? Or is this a one way connection?

You never saw me object to the recent increase Jerry brown supported. Nor did you ever see me support a removal of the minimum wage. You might be making some wrong assumptions about what i do advocate.

And for all the wonderful arguments that go for more money for the underemployed and the poor… The minimum wage is still not really the best solution. It’s poor to middle class upward mobility and stability in the job market at and above minimum wage. That’s what turns poverty around en masse. it’s been so long since that last real employment boom everyone left of center seems to forget how great that is. That’s what we need and that’s where the administration and the congress and the corporate world itself has failed us all. Miserably. where is the freaking boom? Wall street. Thanks for nothing.

No I’m not there to buy in so wholeheartedly with anyone as to advocate a complete imbalance at the policy level. Not the left, the GOP, the Dems, not the libertarians.

Show me where such an imbalance has worked out well more than short term if you can. Because taking this back around to what I really said, actually objected to might just matter in the end.

Oh and be sure to take in Lumberheads page about overtime. It’s illustrative of mobility and where that comes from.