Michael Koby

Looks like the Democratic controlled House has passed the minimum wage hike. The minimum wage will go from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour, a $2.10 raise.

It seems that the logic behind doing this is that the majority people who work minimum wage jobs still live in poverty. While this might be the case, by raising the minimum wage they just made it harder for those people to live.

Raising the minimum wage causes a domino effect in that because the employers are paying their workers more, they have to raise the price of their products in order to make up the difference. The other option for employers is to fire staff in order to bring labor costs down to be able to keep prices the same. If businesses raise the price of their products, then the minimum wage hike that the employees just got is instantly worth a lot less than intended.

Most people will say that it does not happen, but I was working a minimum wage job when the last hike happened. The place I was working for (Dominos Pizza) raised their prices by a dollar (sometimes two) per pizza. I also saw other places raise their prices as well.

I find it funny though that a lot of people that this is going to benefit did not want it to happen. Could it be that people who work minimum wage jobs are smarter than people give them credit for?

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A couple of weeks ago over at the Huffington Post Blogs a gentleman by the name of Dave Johnson wrote a little commentary in response to criticism from Washington insiders who criticize the legitimacy of bloggers. In this article Dave Johnson argues that it is not the bloggers but rather the blogging software that scares government officials.

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According to CBS News, 90 Million people believe the United States government was involved in the 9/11 attacks either directly or in the fact that they were aware of the attacks and let them happen as a reason to invade the Middle East.

This theory is not new to me in fact I read a little bit about it before my friend showed me the documentary Loose Change, which is a documentary that covers this exact conspiracy theory in depth. While I do not doubt that our government is capable of something like this, I just do not believe that their involvement was that great. Did the United States government know about the attack? That is a debatable point. I believe that our government officials knew about the possibility of an attack but I do not think that they knew exactly what kind of attack was going to happen.

Many people like to believe that Bush was fully aware that the 9/11 attacks were going to happen because it plays into their theory that he was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq. Kind of nice how that all fits together for anti-Bush speakers.

Me, I believe that while Bush might have wanted to invade Iraq, that he did not purposely let an attack on U.S. soil happen. I believe that our invasion of Iraq was based on several aspects and documents that the public is not yet privy to due to classification of that data. I do not believe that the American public should know everything their government knows and that so things should be kept confidential. And as a result, I believe that our government knew more about both 9/11 and Iraq than the public has been told about.

But, I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next internet junkie so keep them coming.

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Looks like the Democrats won the House.  I can not say I’m totally surprised but, I really wish that had not happened.  The Senate on the other hand is still undecided with CNN and FoxNews both having it be about dead even.  The states we are waiting on are Virginia and Montana.  Here’s hoping that the republicans can maintain control of the Senate.
Good news is, Texas stayed pretty much a republican state this time around.

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