Daily Archives: October 14, 2009

Oct 14 2009

State of Colorado lower it’s minimum wage

Colorado will become the first state to reduce its minimum wage because of a falling cost of living.

The state Department of Labor and Employment ordered the wage down to $7.24 from $7.28. That’s lower than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, so most minimum wage workers would lose only 3 cents an hour.

Colorado is one of 10 states where the minimum wage is tied to inflation. The indexing is thought to protect low-wage workers from having flat wages as the cost of living goes up.

But because Colorado’s provision allows wage declines, the minimum wage will drop because of a falling consumer price index. It will be the first decrease in any state since the federal minimum wage law was passed in 1938. Read More

Welcome to the Obama World Colorado!

LINKS

(1) 50,000 line up for housing aid in Detroit

(2) Working for Free…a Georgian Experiment

(3) Colorado Cuts Benefits to Seniors and Mentally ill to Balance Budget (Obamacare Example)

(4) Obamacare Will Raise Average Policy by Thousands of Dollars

(5) Video – Congressional Budget Office – Medicare Benefits Could Be Cut- UPDATED: 24 SEPT

(6) How the Socialists did it… (video)

(7) America For Sale

(8) Food Stamps Swapped for Booze, Viagra in Detroit

(9) Colorado bankruptcy filings has soar in 2009

(10)What The September Unemployment Rate Tells Us (Or, How I Learned To Start Worrying and Hate the BLS Data)

Oct 14 2009

Obama approves more troops to Afghanistan

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This is crazy!

In an unannounced move, President Barack Obama is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced publicly in March, The Washington Post reported.

The additional forces are primarily support forces such as engineers, medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police the Post said, bringing the total buildup Obama has approved for the war-torn nation to 34,000.

“Obama authorized the whole thing. The only thing you saw announced in a press release was the 21,000,” a defense official familiar with the troop-approval process told the daily. Read More

This is what we get from a president that has no experience, 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan when he was asked for 40,000 more troops by his picked commander on the ground. It’s like sending three boxers up against 20 boxers in a ring. These new troops are medical personnel, intelligence experts and military police. He is sending just enough to get more of out young men and women killed. Obama should have sent the 40,000 or bring all our troops home out of danger. General Stanley McChrystal should resign! He has now turned the Afghanistan War into a political War just as Vietnam was and its Obama’s War now not G.W. Bush’s!