Hi Alton,
You asked: "What are you guys doing out there?" I'm recovering from a year
of an overwhelming volume of emails, voicemails, and snailmails.
Activity-wise, I'm spending much time phonebanking to Iowa on behalf of our
inspiring champion of liberty, my main man Ron Paul.
Warm regards, Michael
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
I hear you about "recovering from a year of an overwhelming volume of
emails, voicemails, and snailmails."
I've got boxes of unopened snailmails. Many are pleas for campaign
donations. I think if you give to one or two candidates or to certain
groups such as the "Republican National Committee" or "Campaign for
Liberty," or subscribe to certain magazines such as National Review or
Newsmax, they exchange or, most likely, rent our their mailing lists.
I've got several such pleas from Herman Cain. Do you think I should keep
them, as they might have value in the future?
Voicemails, not so many, since I've leaned to never give out my phone
number. I once did that, and the phone rang incessantly. Thank goodness
for Caller ID, else I'd answer to my regret. I've recently bought a
Panasonic wireless phone that allows me to isolate any caller so that
when they call, they will get a busy signal. How's that for modern
technology?
Don't get me started on e-mails.
Good for you on your phone banking for Ron Paul! I only gave to his
"money bomb." But it's something.
I find it encouraging to see how the mainstream media is stepping up its
attacks and criticisms on RP. I predict he will win tomorrow with 51%
of the votes. Hey, I like to think big.
Talk to you.
Alton
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wrote:
Hi Alton,
You asked: "What are you guys doing out there?" I'm recovering from a
year
of an overwhelming volume of emails, voicemails, and snailmails.
Activity-wise, I'm spending much time phonebanking to Iowa on behalf
of our
inspiring champion of liberty, my main man Ron Paul.
Warm regards, Michael
From: ay10038
To: lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:24 PM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] What are you guys doing out there?New Year Greetings from New York City.
What are you guys doing out there?
I''ve just read this disturbing article from the San Francisco
Chronicle:
"Minimum wage in S.F. up to $10.24, highest in U.S."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/01/MN711MEVP1.D\
TL
The gist of the article reports, "Today [January 1, San Francisco]
will be
the first city in the nation where the minimum hourly wage will top
$10. The
lowest-wage workers will earn $10.24 an hour, up from the current rate
of
$9.92."
I liked how Heather Knight, the staff writer who penned that article,
liberally quotes David Frias, 34, "who makes the minimum wage working
at a
movie theater." Knight quotes Frias: "It's definitely a psychological
boost.
I know I'm going to have a little extra money in my wallet. San
Francisco is
a model for low-wage workers - it's full [of] respect, I guess."
Knight also reported that "Frias is a graduate of San Francisco State
University who majored in broadcast and electronic communication arts
and
aspires to make documentary films. And woe to Frias, because "earning
the
minimum wage isn't enough to afford rent for his own apartment - he
still
lives with his parents in a small Mission District unit."
Knight concludes the article by saying: "Frias, for one, believes that
if
employers set up shop in a pricey city, they have to be prepared to
pay a
decent wage." And she quotes his sagacious last words: "Bottom line is
workers have to get paid a livable wage, and $10.24 is a start. It can
only
get better, but we'll take it for now."
It was bad enough that Knight liberally used this obvious loser to
prop her
apparent liberal bent, but it got worse when she reported about the
"City
Hall's mandates that employers pay a payroll tax of 1.5 percent,
provide
nine paid sick days and provide health care," which understandably,
results
in "many employers . . . feeling squeezed."
Here's a kicker: In fact, the mandatory fee employers who don't
provide
health insurance must pay to the city to support its universal health
care
program will also rise today. It will jump from $2.06 to $2.20 per
hour per
employee for businesses with more than 100 staff members and from
$1.37 to
$1.46 for businesses with 20 to 99 employees. Those with fewer than 20
employees aren't required to pick up their health care tab.What are you guys doing out there? Even in NYC, it's no where this
bad. We
don't have a "universal health care program," and employers don't pay
a
payroll tax, nor must they provide nine paid sick days or health care.
At
least not yet. (But employers here must pay for workers' compensation
and
unemployment "insurance.")
I'm sure you libertarians know about the jobs minimum wages kill.
Coupled
with all those mandated costs, SF has the dubious honor of having the
highest-in-the-country minimum wage. It's no wonder that Daniel
Scherotter,
the chef and owner of Palio D'Asti, an Italian restaurant in the
Financial
District, who Knight interviewed, poignantly asked, "Who the hell
would hire
a teenager for $12 an hour?" (I wonder what this doubtlessly depraved,
rapacious capitalist would pay to hire an unskilled, semi-literate
teenager.
Probably $3 or $4 an hour. No wonder we need caring politicians to
mandate a
minimum "living" wage and protect workers from depraved, rapacious
capitalist employers! God bless them. And God bless San Francisco.)BTW, has anyone read the Constitution lately? Here's a titbit from
Article
1, Section 10, Clause 1 which said, partly, "No State shall . . . pass
any .
. . Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts . . .." Doesn't it seem
to you
that by mandating that employers pay a minimum wage (and all those
sundry
extras), SF's politicians are unconstitutionally "impairing the
Obligation
of Contracts" between employers and their employees should employers
and
Snail mail goes directly to recycle.
This is why I have heard rather emphatically from some of our younger members that snail mail equals spam.
P