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I can confirm Detroit's is for you.

http://www.ketv.com/news/politics/interim-fire-chief-confident-in-departments-budget/-/9674400/21669452/-/gxfdv2z/-/index.html Getting rid of the old fire chief so you can actually try to meet your budget. I do kind of feel sorry for the old chief. Not sure how he is going to make it living off of a measly $130K a year pension. There isn't a bigger screw job to taxpayers at the local level then what cities throw away at these type of pensions. The irony is how all the flaming liberals scream when anyone in the private sector makes that kind of money yet when government employees do, it's fine. There isn't a government job in the entire state of Nebraska that deserves that kind of pension, not even close. I'd guess getting rid of him had more to do with this than anything. http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/9204832.html "the latest analysis of the police and fire pension plan shows that it is under-funded by more than $320 million. That's $40 million worse than projected last year." Highway robbery.

My first thought is... 53 minutes?????

I would love to have real-world examples defending this sentence. What "burdens" have unusual names given to "society?" http://www.dailymail...n-son-Hons.html That took like 12 seconds to find. Awesome. You should have spent another 12 seconds actually reading the article. Exactly. Thanks for helping out.

Just don't let the NCAA find out about this as I am sure they will try to find a reason to take his eligibility away if they find out about it.

He is usually one of the better guests when TnT have him on in Omaha. Watched one of his specials on netflix and it was better then a lot of the other stand ups I have seen but not a grand slam by any means. Not sure I understand the thought that he has fallen hard since I never really thought he was that big of a star to begin with?

I would love to have real-world examples defending this sentence. What "burdens" have unusual names given to "society?" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063487/Parents-named-children-Adolf-Hitler-Aryan-Nation-wont-receive-custody-newborn-son-Hons.html That took like 12 seconds to find.

What a bummer, they took the free international stream offline now that they are starting up the American version on cable/sat. I blame Al Gore.

Of course that's assuming the parents actually pay for things themselves.

OUCH

I know firsthand of some bad decisions already being made by small business owners because they don't fully understand the regulations. Can you guess who is taking the brunt of the bad decisions? Yep, the employees.

This is what I have been told as well which is ironic in that a lot the sob stories leading into this was the younger people were the ones who couldn't afford healthcare and now it will be made even more expensive for them.

Welcome to the system. I have been through several seminars on it and came away with the same feeling. There is something wrong with a system that pushes you to give your employees LESS benefits and pushes them onto the government program. Nothing wrong with the system at all since that was the design of it in the first place. The problem is people are starting to figure it out.

That was a nasty hit. Sponsors can't be too happy with that as Tony was in contention for a chase spot.

While a "poverty class" is likely inevitable, the smaller that class is the better for everyone. What is the best way to reduce the number of people living at or below the poverty line? To start lets flush Obamacare down the toilet where it belongs. http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/brevard-county-cut-back-hours-some-part-time-emplo/nY2KK/ Raising minimum wage doesn't do any good when everyone will only be working 29 hours a week.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/acc/2013/07/22/commissioner-john-swofford-super-division/2574369/ "Among the changes up for discussion would be the formation of a so-called "super division" that would allow athletic departments with high-revenue football programs to make some of their own rules and implement things like athlete stipends." BCS school or bust when this thing is done.

i am not seeing any studies disproving it or saying the the recent raises in the minimum wage has hurt the economy. there is a lot of projection here. but who says business always operate in their best interests? or that they ever demonstrate foresight? oh the nirvana fallacy. if it does not fix everything, why let it help anything. meanwhile, the politicians were debating cutting funding to pbs. So now you are saying there aren't any studies that showed the recent raises hurt the economy yet you can't do the same thing to show they helped? and at the same time we are supposed to believe a study that projects another will help? Not only does it not fix everything, it doesn't fix anything. There is nothing wrong with raising the minimum wage, but if you went from $7 to $12, jobs would be lost, period. There are a lot of low end manufacturing jobs even here in Nebraska that pay in that range. Do you really need more incentive to move jobs to Mexico? I just don't see how pulling some out of poverty is good when at the same time we would be sending more to the unemployment line.

I'm sure the "study" would come out just like that. About the same as all the positive Obamacare predictions did. Come back and share when you can actually find some facts instead of hopes and dreams. Of course that begs the question if it really would be that great then why wouldn't businesses simply do it themselves without the law requiring it? Don't any Liberals own businesses and set the example themselves? Since we know it's all the evil Republicans fault. Oh and once again $15 billion into the economy is nothing compared to what we need.

seems worth it. The average shopper wouldn't have to pay anymore after the employer cuts his staff to cover the additional costs of raising it to $12.

If you had to create the same amount of scholarships for women to offset men's soccer and then add in the fact that we already have a women's program I say it's a long long shot we get men's soccer anytime soon.

I had no idea Uranus was that big Walksalone.

Oh, there's definitely plenty to support my argument, history, for example. http://www.huffingto..._b_2750336.html You do realize how insignificant $21 billion pumped into our economy is don't you? Well probably not, otherwise you wouldn't have posted that. Probably better stick to the Jesus card. Having said that, I'm in no way against raising the minimum wage. In fact I would be in favor of a bill that say every 5 years or so would raise it based on some type of inflation adjustment calculation. I'd much rather see that then letting the politicians barter with each other and throw in their pork for votes at unspecified adjustment periods. Even if we did something like that, I have bad news for you libs, a minimum wage job would still be a minimum wage job and those workers would still be fighting from being in poverty. If you are making $13K a year or $17K a year, odds are you are still royally $%^&ed when it comes to finances. Of course the other bad thing that happens when you raise the minimum wage is a lot of those jobs simply disappear. Pay four guys $9 an hour instead of five guys $7 or better yet move the jobs to Mexico or China. So is it better to try to close the close the wealth gap and at the same time have less working? Also if Jesus was a researcher, he would do his research for free.

f'ing nailed it. If you have a minimum wage job it means you are easily replaceable. Whose fault is it that those people are only qualified for jobs that anyone can do? And why should anyone else give a sh#t if they don't make enough money to live well? Exactly, I believe it was Jesus that said "Hoard all your money. F#@& the poor." Godwin definitely needs to come up with another law that states when liberals have nothing left to support their losing argument they go to the Jesus card, the guy that none of them believes in yet they love to refer to him.

No job should have pay where a 40 hour work week leaves that person eligible for food stamps. And its more than just the one CEO, through the thick layers of middle and upper management in companies, there are far too many people making far too much versus the majority of the workers. And with a franchise type operation like McDonald's there are a lot of people making a lot of money. Not just 1 guy. Did you even read what I just said? Take ALL of the upper salary range money redistribute to the lower pay and STILL wouldn't be a significant enough dent to make it what you want it. Not even freaking close. The only other option left is to pay to employees so much that the company loses money. What happens next? End of company and 1.7 million more on the unemployment line. THAT is what happens with your logic. Let me guess, a reply coming that says that there are a lot of people in upper and middle management that makes a lot of money that do nothing, just take theirs. Broken record.

Not necessarily. But training certainly helps. Do you think it reasonable for someone working full time at a multi-million dollar company to expect to get a livable wage? Do you think that someone working TWO full time jobs should live in what could only be described as poverty? McDonald's made about $1.3 billion last year. http://www.nytimes.c...n-expected.html Their CEO made $8.5 million. http://www.bloomberg...ws-pay-gap.html A full time McDonald's employee makes $13,000 a year after taxes. $1.3 billion divided by 1.7 million employees = $764 extra per employee per year if McDonald's breaks even. That extra $14 a week should fix all the employees financial problems. The CEO should donate his entire salary to the employees too. That would be a whole $5 per employee per year or 9 cents a week. But hey, don't let mathematics ruin your illusion of the evil corporate monster. By that logic, lets just get rid of min wages, after all, it wouldn't be that big a deal if the poor people had less, they don't have much to begin with. Give it all to the guys who don't really do crap (more than just the CEO make mega money in a franchise operation, there are lots and lots of people making high 6 figures or more.) OK, so let's take ALL of the high salary employees money and give it to the low wage workers and still require McDonald's to break even so instead of $764 extra per year we may get it up to $1000 per year. So making $14K per year instead of $13K per year fixes the problem for you? I'd say it's better to leave it like it is otherwise liberals wouldn't have any room left to bitch about how low end jobs are still and always going to be low end jobs.