This is one of those occasions when I'm impressed by the capacity of my fellow humans to act wisely and with compassion, and it warms the cockles of my heart. And it's one of the most laudable things about this election: not that one party or the other made gains here or there, but that so many people knew better than to trust the propaganda of the moneyed classes and chose to improve the lot of those with little.

Onya, America. Sometimes you do good.

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Sure it's nice that 24 states raised the minimum wage but what is wrong with the other 26? Did God give them disposition to be selfish assholes?

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it's nice to have the minimum wage raised, but it's really just something to make the masses feel better temporarily, to feel as though positive change is coming. minimum wage has never been a livable wage and it still isn't. these people are still dirt poor for the work they do. we act as though raising the wage from 5 something an hour to six something an hour has brought us into a new age. it amounts to nothing as the wealth of the elites continues to grow. why don't we have a maximum wage instead of a minimum wage. this is the most amount of money you are allowed to make and anything above this is filtered back down to all the other employees and/or into the community to fund things like education.

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I guess I'm not so upbeat and optimistic on this particular issue. I generally like Barbara but just what are we so happy about? Yeah that $6.85 is great and all but it still doesn't get us up to speed - not even close! It's actually pretty insulting if you ask many. Go talk to dishwashers in Telluride or Taos and see if they think that's a living wage. It makes a difference, don't get me wrong, but it just won't cut it for far too many.

I'm from CO and I can guarantee this barely made a dent in the overall cost of living in cities like Denver and Boulder. A few more raises like this and many CO drivers will actually be able to contemplate insuring their automobiles. Finally it should be noted that this barely passed in CO which begs the question: what kind of sick asshole doesn't vote to lift the minimum wage above that pathetically low sum anyway? Arizona - congratulations on joining the human race and actually enacting a minimum wage act! Big gold star for you!! I don't know if these amendments passed by much in most states but I sincerely doubt it.

Meanwhile congressmen have given themselves wage increases about 9 times in the last few years and hardly a peep from the American people about that. Let's hold off on the back slapping for now.

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what happens in the other states? Here's a nice chart that shows the minimum wage, state by state. http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

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See? We focused on the economy and we won, and now we're going to raise the minimum wage!

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I don't know about your State but Wisconsin plays a rigged game. Ballot refferendums that ment change to the State constitution were construded so what you voted for really went to support the opposition. Complete with deliberatly misleading advertising designed to make you vote their way without even knowing it. Bravo Tyrants!!!!
I've said it before and I say it now;
I AM A FREE PERSON,I NEED NO GOV'T
I AM A FREE PERSON,I NEED NO PARTY
I AM A FREE PERSON,I NEED NO PRESIDENT
I AM A FREE PERSON, I NEED NO CONGRESS
I AM A FREE PERSON, I NEED NO SENETE
I AM A FREE PERSON,I AM LEAD BY SPIRIT
I AM A FREE PERSON, I RESPECT ALL LIFE
I AM A FREE PERSON,NO ONE HAS POWER OVER ME
I AM A FREE PERSON,YOU CAN KILL ME,BUT I'M STILL FREE
i AM A FREE PERSON,BEQUETHED BY GOD,AND SO ARE YOU!!

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OK, this is just a beginning and the new minimum wages are hardly even a survivable wage themselves. But, it is some progress finally at least. Next, the Dems need to convince the working/middle classes why it is in their best interest to raise the minimum at the federal level. Some in the middle class are a little bit above minimum, not always that much. But, what Dems should say is that when wages go up for those on the bottom, everyone, especially the middle class benefits. Everyone benefits because more money is injected into the economy and ultimately more wealth is generated. Now, the dissipation of some misery of the poor is not going to be appreciated by the wealthy elites and the Megachurch McJesus establishment of course (as they clutch their pocketbooks), but the middle class is where it can possibly be seen why it helps them when the bottom goes up. The middle has the most to gain by a higher bottom as it pushes them upwards and wealth is generated. The middle also needs to see this ultimately as a form of wealth transfer from the upper classes downwards. This can how happen, but Dems need to package and sell it correctly.

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As a small business owner for 25 years, I marvel at all of you "progressives" who bow to the governments "fairness" initiatives.
The Europeans fought their revolution to bring about "Fairness" the American colonialists fought ours for "freedom"- so now you all have ascribed the government (that so many of you profess to hate) as the arbiter of fairness. I wont even go into the fact that many of my employees make more than I do, the fact that I pay complete health insurance for them etc... (now you will say I am the exception but thats not true) I know most of my peers in business and most of them provide full insurance and pay NO ONE the "minimum wage". It is our CHOICE (dont yall love that word) and should not be mandated by an inept government.
And people have a CHOICE as to where they work. If I had to compromise I think that I would support a sliding minimum wage where it goes up with age - supposedly an employer will get an advantage of an experienced worker and pay more for that person.
As we become more Euro socialist, a trend most of you love- it will be profitable for the masses to work only one place- in state federal or local GOVERNMENT! To be unionized, to give crappy service (cant be fired why should they care) to get numerous days off that the private sector doesnt and last but not least- to never have to worry about their job security. WHile us risk takers face higher payroll taxes, higher franchise taxes, higher transportation taxes, and under the newly minted liberal Congress- HIGHER CAPITAL GAINS TAXES!. If you want to give the "middle class" a tax break (the dems talk about this all the time but never are specific) then keep the cap gains tax low. Small business take advantage of this all the time. You duped idiots fall into the class warfare mode and think that its only for the "rich".
What is "rich"?

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Take a look at this piece from Huffington Post:

Debunking ‘Peak Oil’ Alarmists

“The argument known as peak-oil theory has provided intellectual backing for the boom in crude prices. . .” This quote comes a September 14 Wall Street Journal article.

The piece appeared more than a year after the publication of my book, “Over a Barrel,” the first chapter of which challenged the notion of oil as a scarce resource. And it was published barely a week after my post, “Massive Oil Find in Gulf of Mexico Brings Gloom to Peak Oil Pranksters” 9/08/06 (you always read it first on Huffington). That post, focusing on the important Gulf of Mexico find underlined the vast potential for new oil discoveries not only in the Gulf but across the planet. The giant Gulf find serves as a harbinger of significant oil discoveries to come, and it highlights why we should all be skeptical of the peak oil theorists.

What I forgot was the peak oil pranksters view their opinions as closer to theology than theory. My Huffington article was bombarded with barbed comments and understandably self serving challenges. It was as if I had questioned received wisdom and, possibly more significantly, a key link to ever higher prices.

The truth is, the peak oil alarmists have been around in one form or another since — or even before — the first U.S. oil well was drilled in the nineteenth century. In 1855 when people were making patent medicine from crude oil that bubbled to the surface in Pennsylvania an advertisement for Samuel Kier’s Rock Oil cautioned buyers: “Hurry, before this wonderful product is depleted from Natures laboratory!”

And so it is today with the peak oil pundits. Their convoluted geological and too-often-opaque jargon tells us as much about current world oil reserves as predictions back then, that oil in Pennsylvania would run out. It did, but by the time that occurred there was more oil around than Samuel Kier ever imagined.

Two things, though, make me nervous. According to the Journal article, I find myself allied with Exxon Mobil and Aramco on an issue. They are attacking peak oil but not because the price of crude is at stratospheric levels (even with recent pullbacks). They want policy makers and consumers to be comfortable about using oil and planning for petroleum consumption in the future. They are obviously becoming frightened that the search for oil substitutes could be harmful to their prospects in the years ahead. And, indeed, they should be. It is high time we put these modern-day robber barons out of the gouging and climate change business.

To be clear, my argument with peak oil is that it has been used as an effective yet spurious tool to ratchet up oil prices and transfer literally trillions of dollars to the myriad players of the oil industry and their hangers on — all at our expense. I’m not arguing for lower prices so that we can use more. Given the looming disaster of global warming, it is essential that the price of oil come down and our utization of oil decline. The money now pouring into Big Oil’s coffers needs to be used for more productive and environmentally urgent purposes, rather than public relations and ‘K Street’ lobbying billions, that are deflecting our attention from such urgent issues as green house gasses, global warming and their impact on our future.
We are now being held up at the gas pump to fatten their bottom line.

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Six for Six!!!
The people have spoken, with these ballot initiatives we have successfully chipped away at the plutocracy just a little bit more. -Steve
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