Category Archives: Executive Minimum Wage

Raising the minimum wage will cause businesses to cut back on hiring and probably raise prices as well.  Minimum wage jobs were never meant to provide a totally livable income for workers just as social security was not meant to do for retirees.  I see nothing but a negative effect on the economy as a…

Economic freedom is all about a FREE market, where the MARKET itself determines the value of products, money, and labor. But this President is all about the power of manipulation; free markets are a foreign concept to his worldview.

President Obama really just said he raised the minimum wage on a few. He really just gave them a raise.......if the minimum is raised I'm afraid the unemployment rate will increase.

Continue to destroy the economy. We are creating economic suicide in our country.

I will support an across the board minimum wage increase when our military and their families no longer have to rely on food stamps and live in low-income housing!

A government mandated minimum wage distorts a free market system.  It was never intended to be a living wage as so many argue.  I suspect federal contract workers already make more than the minimum wage, so President Obama’s executive order will have little effect on the economy.  A truly capitalist free market system naturally dictates…

The President has no authority to do this. It's an appropriation issue and he cannot just spend tax payer funds without approval of Congress. Silly me! What was I thinking???