Comments on: Department of huh? Jacob Weisberg division http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/06/08/department-of-huh-jacob-weisberg-division/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Felix http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/06/08/department-of-huh-jacob-weisberg-division/comment-page-1/#comment-10965 Felix Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:53:03 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/06/08/department-of-huh-jacob-weisberg-division/#comment-10965 You're quite right. What could Weisberg have been thinking? I suspect that he's talking about Democratic attempts to raise the federal minimum wage since 1994 or whenever it was that the Republicans took control of Congress: ie, efforts which were doomed from the start but which still played to the Democratic base. And which, even if they were successful, would have had any kind of effect only in the relatively small number of states which don't have a minimum wage of their own which is higher than the $5.15 or whatever the federal minimum wage is. You’re quite right.

What could Weisberg have been thinking? I suspect that he’s talking about Democratic attempts to raise the federal minimum wage since 1994 or whenever it was that the Republicans took control of Congress: ie, efforts which were doomed from the start but which still played to the Democratic base. And which, even if they were successful, would have had any kind of effect only in the relatively small number of states which don’t have a minimum wage of their own which is higher than the $5.15 or whatever the federal minimum wage is.

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