Category Archives: Economy

$15 Minimum Wage Is A Bad Idea, Says Washington Post Editorial Board

A little bit of common sense from the Washington Post Editorial Board, though, one gets the idea that they might be a wee bit upset that this might affect their own operations soon $15 is the wrong goal for minimum-wage advocates GOVERNORS OF the nation’s most and fourth-most populous states, California and New York, respectively, […]

Warmists: Non-Voluntary Investments Required To Solve Hotcoldwetdry Conundrum

Another day, another demand by the Cult of Climastrology. Remember, these are people who somehow believe that mandating companies comply and join in on carbon credit and tax and cap schemes run by government as “free market principles”. Now we see, as written by Mika Anttone, Founder and Chair of Finnish energy company St1 (I […]

Kerry Claims Climate Deal Will Transform Economy

He thinks that this non-binding, voluntary agreement which has no force of law, which will never be submitted by Mr. Obama to the US Congress, and will be ignored by nations like China and India, among others, will Do Something magical (USA Today) Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the historic Paris accord aimed […]

Surprise: $15 Minimum Wage Could Speed Arrival Of Robot Powered Fast Food Joints

The vastly Right Wing, worker hating Washington Post provides a glimpse of the future Minimum-wage offensive could speed arrival of robot-powered restaurants Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s back in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as […]

Dems Offer Legislation On “Unfair” Work Schedules

Another bit of populist pandering to low wage workers from people who have rarely ever worked a real job (Daily Caller) In the name of fairness, congressional Democrats introduced a bill Wednesday that would put significant restrictions on how employers schedule their employees. “This bill is about basic fairness,” Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a […]

Starbucks Set To Raise Coffee Prices: Can You Guess Why?

Let’s dip back to this Think Progress article from February 2015 In October, Starbucks announced that it would raise its employees wages in January of this year. It promised to increase starting wages for new employees but also to give “all baristas and shift supervisors…a pay increase.” While the announcement attracted press attention, it didn’t […]

Good News: EPA Looks To Increase Cost Of Airplane Tickets To Save Us From Climate Change

Those who are taking long fossil fueled flights from the U.S. to Paris for this years Conference on the Parties hardest hit (NY Times) The Obama administration is set to announce that it will require new rules to cut emissions from airplanes, expanding a quest to tackle climate change that has included a string of […]

NY Times: Say, What If Every Other Country Put A Tariff On Imports From Non “Climate Club” Countries?

In a thinly veiled opinion piece, which appears in the business section, not the science section, writer Eduardo Porter is all about using a big stick on countries, especially the United States, which refuse to implement massive CO2 restrictions Climate Deal Badly Needs a Big Stick ….. Perhaps the word failure fits, however. More than […]

Al Gore: “Sustainable Capitalism Is Key To Prosperous Future” Or Something

It’s long been noted that the “climate change” movement is really all about far Left Progressivism (nice fascism), not science, with one of the goals being to completely change the economic system away from capitalism. Al Gore provides more proof of this Sustainable Capitalism is key to a prosperous future, we must embrace its tenets […]

NFIB: “We’ll observe Earth Day when the EPA observes the law”

Sadly, Earth Day has shifted from caring about real environmental issues…clean air, clean land, clean waters…to the idiocy of “climate change”. Cult of Climastrology member John Kerry (who owns multiple fossil fueled vehicles, several McMansions, and takes lots of fossil fueled flights) links the two in an opinion piece at USA Today. But, not all […]

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