April 23, 2008 by sbrammer.

Yesterday, i heard a story on our local TV station that minimum wage may go up. After i heard that, i thought to myself WTH is wrong with people with the whole minimum wage thing. If this is your first time on this site, read this first, then come back and read this post. It will make more sense if you do. The following are comments that agree with me that raising the minimum wage is not good for the economy.

If the government wants to help the poor this isnt working because over 90% of the population earning minimum wage are teenagers coming from middle income houses not head of household people. When minimum wage gos up so dose unemployment prices go up benefits go down and on the job training go’s down which could be very useful to teenagers.

Minimum is not a living wage today either. Read about the history of it, it was never intended to be a living wage. A company does not have to provide anybody with a livable wage if they dont want to. A wage is a binding agreement between a company and an employee. If the employee feels he is not getting paid what he is worth, he can ask for a raise, and the comapny has the right to either approve of the increase or deny it. If they deny it, then the employee can get out of the contract agreement and seek employment elsewhere.

Fox News Article

Let’s say I walk into a grocery store with $6.75 today. I can probably pick up a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, and a loaf of bread with what I’ve got in my pocket. So, the buying power of one hour’s wages is a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, and a loaf of bread.When the value of the dollar goes down like it did from 1916 to today, we have inflation. In an inflation, the buying power of an hour’s wages go down. For example, if the price of bread, milk, and eggs doubles, it now takes two hours’ wages to buy them, and your buying power is cut in half. Ultimately, if you’re worried about how to pay your bills, it doesn’t matter whether you’re earning $0.16/hour in 1916 or $6.75 in 2006, your real concern is how much buying power you have. Raising the minimum wage to $100/hour does no good if the cost of a loaf of bread is $200. Even though you’d be earning wages that by today’s standards would put you in the top 2% of wage earners, your buying power would be extremely low.

So, let’s say you’re one of those slightly-above-minimum-wage working people, say earning $7.75/hour. We raise minimum wage to $8.75/hour. What do you think your new pay rate will be? Well, for most people, it will be $8.75/hour — the new minimum wage — even though to keep up with the inflation the new minimum wage causes, you’d need to be earning more like $10/hour. Raising the minimum wage puts more workers into the minimum-wage trap.

www.balancedpolitics.org

it will make the price of everything go up so minimum wage will have to go up again, many people will be fired to compensate the salaries of the people that businesses keep, unemployment will go up, people with non-minimum wage jobs but still low paying jobs will suffer (because prices will go up but their wages will not).

Minimum wage in itself is a big con for taking away from the free market. Companies should be able to pay whatever they can find people to work for and not be subjected to a minimum amount they need to pay. Of course this is all the fault of the welfare system which acts as an alternative to working minimum wage jobs. So to keep people from taking handouts that the government provides, the government has forced corporations to offer a more lucrative alternative.

That is all i have for the time being. I will probably write more about this issue since here in IL, the wage will go up again in July for the next two years. In 2010, it will be $8.25\hr for minimum wage. That is more than my first full-time job after college graduation!

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April 21, 2008 by Jeremy.

That’s right, according to Al Gore, Hollywood jet-setters can’t be expected to change their extravagant lifestyle. This is just another example of how liberals truly believe. They want us to give up our lifestyles and money to help benefit everyone else as long as they themselves don’t have to do the same. They just want to take the credit of making it happen so they look good.

How anyone is buying what these people are selling is beyond me!

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April 18, 2008 by Jeremy.

Pilots Picket American Airlines Over Performance

They’re picking the fact that the airline they work for has bad customer service. Wouldn’t that be partly their fault as well? Just a thought.

It seems to me they’re only helping, an already hurting industry, go under which would (it would seem to me anyway) possibly put them out of a job.

I fail to see the common sense in any of this…can you help me?

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April 15, 2008 by Jeremy.

I’ve noticed that we seem to have more men that participate on the site. Maybe I need some more female writes because I know we have plenty of Common Sense women out there.

So to help them express that the CT Shop offers something that I hope only the ladies are buying:

My favorite part being the back where it says, “Common Sense Required”. I think that about sums it up for our intelligent ladies. It lets the men know that they better have the Common Sense if they…well I’ll just leave it at that…

This is the second time I’ve had ladies underwear plastered on the site. I’m not trying to make a habit of it so don’t expect it often.

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April 14, 2008 by Jeremy.

At least that’s what Alicia Keys believes now. And for her completely moronic theory she gets to be our new Illogical Thought Award winner!

She actually believes that the government and the media fueled the “gangsta rap” coastal wars. This has to be one of most illogical theories I have ever heard.

It makes me glad I’ve never bought any of her albums and assures that I never will.

Let’s hear it for the lack of common sense once again! Congratulations on the award Alicia!

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April 11, 2008 by Jeremy.

Well you may have noticed that the site was blue for a while. It was just for fun and a bit of change.

In light of our recent BIRTHDAY we’re giving you something to celebrate!

Today though we have added several new items to the Coherent Thought Shop for you to enjoy and for one week all items will be marked down for a sale so get your items now!

Our best deal right now is a great t-shirt for under $10.00.

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April 9, 2008 by Jeremy.

That’s right Coherent Thought officially started one year ago today. I must say its been a fun year and I look forward to many more. I hope that people will come to make this Blog a daily stop on their Internet journey.

Because of our birthday we are going to introduce you to our new Coherent Thought Mascot. He has yet to be named so if you have any ideas let us know.

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