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Tell us how Obama can raise the minimum wage for non-federal employees, please. In detail.
Nope. EO's can't be used to set the minimum wage for non-federal employees. That's the point. Obama can't set the minimum wage for the country. Literally can't. Or else he would.
No, he actually can't. Literally can't. Because that's not how EO's work. If you knew anything about the subject you wouldn't have started this thread, so I'm trying to educate you. Executive Orders can't be used to affect the federal minimum wage.
Have you talked to Obama? Because he seems to think he can use EO's for whatever he wants.
Obama has issued fewer EOs than 19 of the last 20 presidents. Let that sink in. Aside from George HW Bush, Obama has issued fewer EO's than any president since Grover Cleveland in 1897. With the time left on his term, he's likely to pass up Gerald Ford, so probably it'll be 18 of the last 20 when he leaves office.
I saw data on that (Obama vs. the last several presidents) in today's Chicago Tribune. It surprised me.
I think in your zeal to defend Obama against all types of negativity, you're missing that we're being sarcastic for most of this.
All types of negativity? I thought we were talking specifically about the use of Executive Orders to raise the minimum wage. Are we talking about other things, too?
Well, we didn't think Obama would illegally change Obamacare and he did anyways. So how they have worked in past years isn't really relevant for this President.
Do you have a link to show me that Obama broke the law using an EO with regard to Obamacare?
The company is nothing without its workers. It is time for America to get out this "be thankful just tohave a job mentality" and make employers get in the be thankful you have employees mentality!
The opposition party is always quite certain that a president has acted illegally. If he really had broken a law, they'd have brought a lawsuit by now.
It goes in cycles. In recessions, companies say you should be thankful you have a job. Once out of recession, employees say #### you I am leaving for a better job.
I wouldn't expect you to believe anything that paints Obama in a negative light. Of course, they haven't brought a lawsuit by now because the Senate is run by Democrats.
Where are you coming from with this notion that I'm some sort of Obama apologist? Honestly. Because the only thing I've written here is objective fact about the use of Executive Orders and the also objective fact that every opposition party spends a president's entire term(s) loudly complaining that he has broken the law in a number of interesting and creative ways. The Democrats did it to Bush, the Republicans did it to Clinton, the Democrats did it to Bush and Reagan... it's how things are.
Staples created the employee problem. Of the multitude of business decisions they could have made to deal with a new law, they chose to drop employee work hours.
Staples made a business decision based on a poorly written law . They don't make the rules, they simply play by them. If the government is going to incentivize businesses to move to part-time labor that's what they are going to do.
You do not know the difference between literally and figuratively.
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Of course he can. He will give a speech, and wages will rise. Just like he gave a speech, and the planet was healed and the oceans ceased to rise.
And since he cared about the black people the ghettos were no more and there was unity on the planet...
I challenged you to tell us how Obama can change the federal minimum wage and you haven't done so - because you can't. The only thing you can do is respond with what you think is a clever dig. It's not. Because Obama literally can't affect the federal minimum wage for non-federal employees using Executive Orders. Show me how he can, in detail, or GTFO. Seriously. Spreading lies and misinformation about the process doesn't help anyone.
Have you listened to him? Because that's not what he thinks; otherwise, he would do so.
So your "proof" is a bunch of Republicans?
Yep, and employees can focus a spotlight on what they're trying to do and bring public scorn down upon them. Ultimately costing them more money than they were planning on saving.
Sure he can. At least until the courts shoot it down. There is nothing stopping him from issuing an EO on minimum wage and instructing the Department of Labor to enforce it.
<sigh> Which is the point. The courts would shoot it down, there's no way they wouldn't. Because EO's aren't meant to be used that way. The president isn't going to sign an EO to give everyone a raise only to have that taken away a week later. Do you think George Bush - or any of the Republicans since 1980 - wouldn't have reduced the minimum wage to zero if doing it by EO would have worked? Clinton would have raised it but didn't. Why? Because EO's don't work that way.
in my previous post.
