Florida's Amendment for Wage Law under Hilarious attack.

[BlueJazz]

As some of you might not be aware of, Florida will have an Amendment on the ballot to raise the minimum wage and keep it at a fair level as time goes by.

Anyway, this morning, the powers that be (The rich and Ignorant) came out with a new all assault on the amendment by featuring poor starving children....

I swear to God, Fellow/ Sister Durer's, it looks like a skit out of Saturday Night Live....What will the Children Do??....The Poor Precious Children will be the ones who will suffer this injustice!...Families will be broken up!....Domestic Violence will increase due to monetary problems!! Employers will be force to lay-off hard working parents of Innocent lives!....

I was watching the TV laughing my ass off.

Oh...those sweet, loving Republicans...they strive to be fair and honest in everything they do..

[cthrumatrix]

1. Outback Steakhouse (and others) spending $1 + to stop the wage incr...?

just pay the damn workers ...

[RobertSeattle]

2. Sounds like RNC 101

Convince the lower/middle class to vote against their own economic interests.

[Mend]

5. We Just Voted For It

We went and voted this morning. It only took 8 minutes, probably because we live in a heavily repuke area and they sure want their votes counted. There were lots of helpers, lots of machines, lots of parking in this rich, white area. The ballot was easy to follow on the machine but there was no receipt, so who knows. Ammendment 5 about the minimum wage only raises it to $6.15 so they are cruel to bitch about it. We voted for it and for Senator Kerry....now we wait.

[peekaloo]

3. Is that Amendment 5....those commercials are appalling

hurricane aid being wiped out, old people being denied healthcare, jobs being outsourced.....(not a Florida voter) but it's never stated that Western Civilization will fall because of a dollar increase on the minimum wage.

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. Do you mean

that children will starve if the minimum wage goes up??? This is true you know. If parents get a higher minimum wage, they will just get all lazy and not even go to work. All the incentive will be gone. They'll lay around the house and smoke crack all day (with all of that extra money) and the babies will starve. It makes perfect sense to me. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Nicholas_J]

6. Its going to be a tough amendment for them to beat

It had more signatures to get it on the ballot than all of the amendments in this election and the last two put together. Several million signatures were obtained to get this on the ballot.Something like 30 times the required number of signatures. There were attempts to keep it off through intimidation, but so many people supported it that the opponents looked laughable.

In fact, a Mason -Dixon poll taken about 12 days ago showed 59 percent support for it, and Mason Dixon polls are notorious for running more on the conservative side of every issue (there is a tendency for Mason Dixon polls to ignore minorities)

[seafan]

7. Here is how the Rethugs want us to vote on the rest of the amendments...

I posted this on the Florida forum, but thought this would be a good place for it as well. Apparently, the Rethugs are sending out flyers to their flock, to tell them how to vote on these Constitutional amendments.

This is what these *compassionate conservatives* want:



1. A 15-year-old girl, for example, who is raped by her father, to be compelled to notify her father before termination of her pregnancy ....

2. To involve the state Supreme Court before OK'ing citizen initiatives for constitutional amendments before the initiatives can be voted on...

3. To ensure that attorneys are entitled to no more than 30% contingency fee for the first 250K in medial injury cases; also that the attorney is entitled to no more than 10% of damages over 250K, regardless of the number of defendants.

(Hmmmm, this wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that trial attorneys historically are supportive of the
Democratic party's candidates, and Jeb wants to dry out Democrats' source of funding, would it....? )

Just watch, the next step in Jeb's devious plan will be to permanently cap all malpractice lawsuits to 250K, regardless of catastrophic damages inflicted on the patient... man, he must really hate those lawyers... and the patients too.

4. To prevent a referendum on slot machines in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, proceeds of which, if slot machines were allowed, would be used to supplement public education funding statewide...

5. To prevent an increase the minimum wage to $6.15 an hour....

6. To repeal that nasty old bullet train amendment, that those silly voters just didn't know what they were voting for in 2002, says Jeb.

7. To prevent patients from having access to information about malpractice claims against health care providers or facilities, including those which could cause injury or death...

8. To ensure that doctors who have committed 3 or more incidents of malpractice may continue to renew their licenses instead of being denied a relicensure...


It remains very clear that the Republican Party is not on our side.

It's time for all of them TO GO.


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