This week on CounterSpin: Republican presidential candidates disagreed on many things, but when it came to the idea of raising the minimum wage, they were in concert: It would be a “disaster,” increase joblessness and knock us out of international competition. Media usually present the issue as one of workers vs. business, but that’s not the whole story. We’ll get a different angle from Holly Sklar of the national network called Business for a Fair Minimum Wage.
Also on the show: Transparency and accountability — principles we’d hope would be paramount in the workings of state governments. But a new assessment called the State Integrity Investigation shows they are actually in short supply. We’ll learn the extent of the problem and what journalists can do about it from the Investigation’s project manager, reporter Nicholas Kusnetz of the Center for Public Integrity.
As usual, we take a quick look back at the week’s press, including factchecking Netanyahu, 60 Minutes vs. whistleblowers, and blaming technology for government repression.
CONTENT LINKS:
- “Research Shows Minimum Wage Increases Do Not Cause Job Loss,” by Holly Sklar (Business for a Fair Minimum Wage)
- State Integrity Investigation
Educated middle-class — Cutting off their nose to spite their pocket book
As this interview points out, giving the laboring-class lower half of society a living wage, this would be about the best thing that ever happened to our educated upper half. For a living wage trickling down to the laboring-class, this would cause a 25% increase in wealth flowing throughout the economy and a corresponding amount flowing into the savings and investments of everyone but the ruling elite.
Problem is, the ruling elite hoards 75% of the wealth, a living minimum wage would reduce the wealth of mansion owners down to 50% and greatly motivate society toward a socialist economy.
So, our mainstream brainwashed public so addicted to mainstream media, they are thought controlled into believing that the laboring-class are inherently lazy and need a police state backed up by a poverty wage to keep them productive.
Actually, you can’t force a laboring man, nay any man, to work for a poverty wage unless you back it up with a brutal and imperial police state.