Keeping Our Values through Compromise

THE REPUBLICANS are not at all happy about obama's speech. They do not want to raise minimum waige, because, they say, if you pay more per worker, you won't be able to hire as many workers. 

This is not true. A worker costs a lot either way; anytime one is hired, at seven an hour or nine an hour, the employer can afford it. New workers are paid for either by discretionary capital, or necessity, but either way, new workers are paid for before they're hired, or they wouldn't be hired.

IF WE lower minimum wage enough, then everybody can have a job, because employers can afford to hire hordes of employees. Unemployment rate will be zero. Until wages become so low nobody will work .

 A job needs to be worth having, and it needs to pay enough to permit the worker to avoid poverty. With fewer, at first, higher paid employees, more money will be earned and spent, stimulating more economic activity, requiring more workers, expanding the economy - for everybody.

Most republicans probably oppose minimum wage laws entirely, but are afraid to say so, because the voters favor such laws. The republicans favor exploiting coal and oil, rather than solar energy, because its easier that way, more efficient, providing quicker, greater profit.

and, with all this oil , coal, and natural gas in the ground underneath america, it is understandable why people would want to use it. These fossil fuels do not produce as much pollution as they used to; but we absolutely must, along with these, develop solar energy as well.

A healthy compromise might be for obama to allow the big new oil pipeline to be built from canada to the gulf coast, and the building of new oil refineries, as long as the republicans agree to invest in solar, wind, and geo thermal energy, all of which can save humanity.

we can possibly survive a bit more oil, coal, and natural gas, and carbon in the atmosphere, as long as we don't care about the polar ice caps, or snow, or winter. But, we don't want the entire planet to become a lifeless martian desert, so, at some point, solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy must be developed. the coal, oil, and natural gas will run out, so they say.

and maybe we could all agree that we will not pay teacherss or custodians nearly as much as we pay celebrity entertaineres and athletes, because we will let the free market prevail, and we do have our american values, and we do love our entertainment, and despise our workers; but perhaps we can also agree that entertainers should not be treated like gods, and custodians like trash.