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One small voice in the proud tradition of FreeBlogging* Wednesday, October 13, 2004 posted by gbarto at 7:32 PM:more debate...Kerry loves the minimum wage. Hmm. I worked at McDonald's in college. Every time the minimum wage went up, a new machine appeared and hours got cut. I was fine, but the people who didn't know and couldn't do crap went from having a job, however lousy, to being eased out - hours cut and jerked around till they quit. The problem, incidentally, wasn't that anyone had it in for them. The problem was that once you went from six people and six machines to two people and ten machines, those in the worst shape couldn't handle the stress... yep, it's true... of prioritizing tasks and synchronizing machine output in a McDonald's kitchen. In the last few years, though, I've noticed that some of these places are using more people again. They're falling over each other in the local Jack in the Box, for example. That's because with inflation the minimum wage is no longer making labor too expensive. (To the contrary, machine/labor cost is now at a place where a lot of places pay above the minimum wage because people are cheaper than the machines now.) --- "I never suggested a test..." What's with the "..., people!" from Kerry? Smack! What passes Kerry's test? Not the international coalition for Gulf War I. --- "It was a failure of presidential leadership not to extend the assault weapons ban." Au contraire, it was a successful effort in getting someone else to kill it. -- Is it that easy to get an assault weapon? I want one! --- Affirmative action Discrimination is still there and George W. Bush wants it that way! (That's the phrase that has Kerry's tongue bleeding for his inability to say it in this forum.) Wow! George W is so historic! You pick a "worst," and he's done it. As for not meeting with the NAACP, why would he? It's a Democrat side group at this point. Whatever respect the King legacy commanded is gone. Bush's positive developments response is a good, if not exceptional, one. --- Faith and policy Very nice, personal response. Whatever else you think of him, this guy is genuine. He believes his own crap. And a fear of mine with Kerry is I'm not sure he would, even if he could figure out what it is. Kerry not doing too badly here. He's a bit Richard Gerish here and there, but good on religion. Crap. On to the class war. If he mentions 89 billion again... --- Polarization Sen. Kerry - will you set a priority in bringing the country back together? Hmm... he's going for the Kaus "Thank you and goodbye" bit. If he's smart... Nope. I was going to say, if he's smart, he'll leave it at that. But he couldn't. Never seen people locked out before? That's cause he held the key in the '80s when Bobby Byrd, Ernest Hollings and Co. were running things. ... Secret meetings in the White House? Like Chinese generals? --- The McCain response was intersected oddly - he'd been waiting to say it - but point well taken. --- On strong women. Bush doing very good. Did very good. Kerry joke about marrying up a little forced, but follow-up good. I'll give him that. Still can't manage Bush's folksiness, though. Deathbed anecdote, though. Don't like. "Don't let me take myself too seriously." Too bad they're not on stage. Still, a not bad Kerry answer. --- Closings: Kerry - Who is he? Kennedy? Nope. No country has a veto on our security - the Bush team's global test line must be working. Bush - Can't see what he looks like, but he sounds like he's musing, not preaching. Reminder of what we've been through. Ideas about how we move forward. And hitting on freedom and liberty and our plan to spread them. And he goes for the sale: "I'm asking for your vote." I'm disappointed Kerry didn't. 
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