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If President Dementia finally falters for good and Vice President Cackler is somehow persuaded to allow herself to be eased into a comfortable and lucrative retirement, and if the persistent rumors about a Michelle Obama presidential campaign prove to be just that — rumors — the Commissar of the California Soviet Socialist Republic, Gavin Newsom, is waiting in the wings. In 2028, he won’t have so many people ahead of him in the Democrat food chain, and he could conceivably turn out to be the occupant of the Oval Office someday. But some of his recent dealings in the tarnished Golden State may end up derailing his ambitions before he even announces a formal run for the presidency.
As part of his relentless efforts to destroy California as an economic powerhouse and make it the perfect prototype of the borderless socialist hellhole that the left wants to make out of the entire country, Newsom several months ago signed a law raising the minimum wage of fast food workers in the state from $16 an hour to $20 an hour. This should have been enough in itself to kill Newsom’s presidential ambitions, for minimum wage hikes are among the cruelest and most damaging of the many tricks and deceptions that leftists use to gain support.
Raising the minimum wage seems to be an act of looking out for the little guy. Minimum wage laws are supposed to ensure that the greedy top-hatted capitalists of leftist myth are forced not to keep all the profits for themselves, but to ensure a decent living for those whose labor they’re exploiting. Socialist politicians such as Newsom, however, never tell voters about the downside. The New York Post reported Wednesday that “earlier this month, Chipotle executives warned that consumers in California should expect to see ‘significant’ price hikes due to the minimum wage hike.”
Business owners large and small don’t generally take minimum wage hikes as a cue to tighten their belts and make sacrifices. Maybe in a perfect world they would, but this is not a perfect world. Instead of absorbing the increased costs themselves, they pass them on to the consumer in the form of price increases, or they lay off a few workers and make the ones who are still employed work harder for almost the same money. Minimum wage laws thus increase both prices and unemployment. Under the guise of giving ordinary workers a fair shake, they make life more difficult for them.
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somehistory says
If one never read anything about this corrupt jerk, some could tell by his smug expression on his ugly face, that he is not a nice guy. And his corruption, responsible for driving many people from CA, gives to his dirty mind the idea of continuing to tax residents after they have become former residents.
newsom should take a look at history and what happened to the *elites* in the French Revolution who went about chopping off heads….before losing their own. That time also involved ‘bread.’
On another note: The city government of Denver, CO, has begun laying off government employees (they aren’t calling them lay-offs) by cutting their hours to zero so they can use the money saved to pay for the upkeep of the criminals, a.k.a illegals, migrants, who have become a financial burden on the city due to the border invasion. They say the employees can collect unemployment.
How long before CA cities do that? or maybe NYC and Chicago?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hopefully, his “whiteness” will sabotage any of his aspirations for power 😈
Taffy says
Economics 101 in every college and university covers the fallacy of the intended effect of minimum wage laws. As Mr. Spencer implied, unemployment among the workers increases, sometimes restaurants shut down as no longer profitable, and menu prices increase. The system eventually balances at a new price point, unemployment level and profit level for the restaurant.
Very few restaurants earn the big bucks for their owners. Most allow the owners to get by with a modest return on investment and a lot of sweat equity put into the business. And many restaurants are nearly scraping by. In an
Ny event, market forces and not the government should determine wages and prices.
Taffy says
Economics 101 in every college and university covers the fallacy of the intended effect of minimum wage laws. As Mr. Spencer implied, unemployment among the workers increases, sometimes restaurants shut down as no longer profitable, and menu prices increase. The system eventually balances at a new price point, unemployment level and profit level for the restaurant.
Very few restaurants earn the big bucks for their owners. Most allow the owners to get by with a modest return on investment and a lot of sweat equity put into the business. And many restaurants are nearly scraping by. In an
Ny event, market forces and not the government should determine wages and prices.
Also, depending on the elasticity of demand for a particular restaurant, the higher prices may result in a material decline in patrons.
And, Mr. Spencer left out the most corrupt part of all. Panera Bread, a restaurant owned by friends of Newsom, is exempt from the minimum wage law.
SC says
I wonder who else is exempt too. Oh and dont forget the fruit and vegetable pickers if their wages go up so does basic produce doubly increasing restaurant prices
Wellington says
Unfortunately, Gavin Newsom is Biden with a brain. It’s a warped brain in tact as many have been like those of Karl Marx and Lenin but it is exceedingly foolish to aver that Newsom is not smart. He is—and smart people with atrocious ideas are, when in power, even more destructive eventually than stupid people with bad ideas (e.g., Biden) when in power. If one thinks Biden has been a destroyer of America, which he certainly has been, then I would direct all with common sense to consider what Gruesome Newsom “might achieve.”
Do not take this man lightly. Newsom should not be underestimated. He is filled with enormous ambition, far above average political talent and a whole host of terrible ideas. In brief, he is a menace to America and what is left of the free world. No doubt here whatsoever. None.
tgusa says
Not only corrupt but mindbogglingly stupid as well.
“Newsom pledges to restore salmon by removing dams in new strategic plan”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newsom-pledges-to-restore-salmon-by-removing-dams-in-new-strategic-plan/ar-BB1hv2Lo
“Klamath Dam Removal: It’s an Environmental Disaster”
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/klamath-dam-removal-its-an-environmental-disaster/
Meanwhile, dumass Newsome’s head honcho dumass (biden) calls skeptics of climate change, “Neanderthals.”
I love it when nitwits call people names like Neanderthals and propose that they can save nature, save the planet, control the weather. Just think, after they are done the planet will resemble the mess that biden has created of the USA. We can all rejoice when the entire planet resembles the complete mess Newsome has engineered in California. God help us.
somehistory says
I read an article some time back that claimed Neanderthals were not as dumb as they were once thought to be.
Of course, how could anyone living today know for sure just what people of former times were capable of doing, knowing, etc. ? Could newsom or biden build a fire with a few sticks and stones? Or make a wheel if they had no machining tools, no models; and if so, how long would it take?
You can’t beat the current stupidity of some people with a stick.
OLD GUY says
Newsom makes rules, he doesn’t have to follow the rules, he thinks he is the ruler. CORRUPTION !
Jerome from Layton says
Remember COVID? Gov. Nuisance tried to destroy a host of businesses under that pretext. Then there is the Green War against carbon. In this case, his CARB is insisting that all trucks servicing California ports become “Zero Emissions”. The effective outcome is the elimination of marine traffic to the California coast. Does this look like intentional destruction? OBTW, Sleepy Joe is doing the same thing.