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Walmart Makes HUGE Move After $15 Min. Wage Hike

Posted on August 2, 2017August 4, 2017 by Frank Lea

Democrats rallying for a $15 per hour minimum wage hike in Los Angeles were victorious. The city has apparently instated some sort of an ordinance mandating that stores pay a new minimum wage of $15 per hour. Walmart made a huge move after learning of the new wages they were being FORCED to pay their […]

So About That $15 Minimum Wage: Grocery-Stocking Robots to Soon Take over St. Louis Area Supermarket [VIDEO]

Posted on July 29, 2017July 29, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

For years now, I have shopped with Amazon and we are doing so more and more. I love the convenience and adore Amazon. It’s absolutely my favorite way to shop. They are now expanding into the market place and have not only taken over Whole Foods, but are now aiming at Blue Apron as well. […]

Applebee’s Franchise Owner Destroys Liberal Minimum Wage Argument On FOX [VIDEO]

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This is EXACTLY what I predicted when this whole Fight for 15! nonsense started. I said be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it and those making minimum wage are about to get it indeed. We heard last month how McDonald’s is bringing automated kiosks to their restaurants across America starting […]

Libs In Seattle Leaned QUICK That $15 Minimum Wage Cost Jobs…Their PLAN To Stop It?! [VIDEO]

Posted on July 2, 2017July 2, 2017 by Sonja Bochow

A few years ago, Seattle’s Liberal leaders thought it would be a great idea to raise the minimum wage. The goal was to push it up to $15.00 per hour. The idea was to accomplish this task in phases. And, in December of 2014, they also commissioned a study from the University of Washington to […]

Keith Ellison Celebrates His City’s NEW $15 Minimum Wage Hike With Horrid Song!

Posted on July 1, 2017July 2, 2017 by McIntosh

The city of Minneapolis made the insane move of passing a measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour – even with the disaster that Seattle has now experienced with the same measure – and despite the nearly mountain high pile of studies that pointed out that this very move is a very, […]

Seattle You’ve Got Company: NY Restaurants Closing Because Of Minimum Wage Hikes

Posted on July 1, 2017July 2, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

These people just never, ever learn. Seattle and San Francisco both now have company… New York restaurants are now going out of business because of mandated minimum wage hikes. Way to go progressives. Smart. Last year alone, over 1,000 restaurants closed their doors over this insanity in America’s largest city. Adding insult to injury, McDonald’s […]

Study: Seattle’s High Minimum Wage Is Hurting Low-Wage Workers

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Dave Blount

Seattle has taken the lead in hiking up minimum wage. Considering the city’s growing economy and low unemployment, if higher minimum wage doesn’t work there, it won’t work anywhere. The results are in. Minimum wage doesn’t work there: Seattle’s first-in-the-nation $15 per hour minimum wage law is hurting the workers it aimed to help, a […]

The Verdict is in: Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike is a Huge Failure

Posted on June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 by Sierra Marlee

Oh gee, who ever could have seen this coming? This is a truly unexpected outcome. If only we had someone who could have told Seattle that raising the minimum wage was going to be bad for businesses. I mean, how could this happen? People just want a livable wage, so how dare the market not […]

Minimum Wage Madness Begins to Kill Off California’s Restaurant Industry

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Dave Blount

The restaurant industry is a canary in California’s coalmine of moonbattery. Minimum wage insanity is killing it: Consider San Francisco, an early adopter of the $15 wage. It’s now experiencing a restaurant die-off, minting jobless hash-slingers, cashiers, busboys, scullery engineers and line cooks as they get pink-slipped in increasing numbers. And the wage there hasn’t […]

Now Liberals Want to Ban the Robots They Made Necessary

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Dave Blount

Government coercion invariably causes problems. Fortunately for moonbats, these problems can always be solved by more government coercion. For example, the insane campaign to saw off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder by jacking up minimum wage has inevitably resulted in wealth-producers resorting to robotics to replace the workers they can no longer afford […]

Pelosi Vows $15/hr. Minimum Wage Within 100 Hours of Dems Declaring Victory [VIDEO]

Posted on May 28, 2017May 30, 2017 by Sierra Marlee

Democrats are the party of delusion and if you needed evidence of that, look no further than Nancy Pelosi’s impossible promise of a $15/hr. minimum wage. That’s not even the craziest part, though. She promised the action within 100 hours of Democrats winning the house in 2018. Yeah, if I were her I wouldn’t bet […]

Minimum Wage Workers Will Be Wishing They Didn’t Push For $15 After Seeing This Report

Posted on May 25, 2017May 27, 2017 by Sierra Marlee

Conservatives and other economic literates have been warning that those pushing for a $15/hr minimum wage will have serious consequences. Despite having centuries of evidence to back up our argument, idealistic liberals are continuing to push for a ridiculously high minimum wage. We’re now being told that those consequences might be more far-reaching than just […]

BREAKING: Major Scandal Rocks the DNC – This Is Huge!

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Looks like reality just bit the Dems in the butt big time. Oh, the irony! The Democratic Party is being sued by dozens of their field workers for not paying overtime and for paying substandard wages. Oops!! This is the party that pushes Fight for 15! and a minimum wage of $15 an hour. On […]

Democrat Mayor Promises $15 Min Wage, Discovers BRUTAL Truth and now REFUSES to… [VIDEO]

Posted on March 31, 2017April 1, 2017 by Just An American

People say that the minimum wage isn’t going to cost jobs if it’s raised, despite seeing jobs literally being deleted from companies after they are forced to raise the minimum wage to $15… these people have a very bad sense of reality and well…selective ignorance. As nutty as a $15 minimum wage is, the problem […]

Wendy’s Puts Self-Serve Kiosks in 1,000 Stores to Save Labor Costs

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This happening was a foregone conclusion once fast food franchises were forced to look at their bottom lines because of higher wages. For years I have warned that the Fight For 15! crowd, were protesting themselves out of a job and here it is. Wendy’s is bringing in 1,000 self-serve robotic kiosks to save labor […]

Minimum Wage Massacre: Wendy’s Brings in 1,000 Robots To Counter Higher Labor Costs

Posted on February 28, 2017March 1, 2017 by Alexandria Willis

Isn’t it time our leaders actually looked at what is happening because of the policies they are creating? This is just one more example of employers responding to the forced wage increase that the government is mandating. How do they respond? They stop employing as many people. It is as simple as that. And apparently […]

Minimum Wage Hikes Will Possibly Lead To A Devastating 1.8 Million Job Losses

Posted on February 5, 2017February 5, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

This is the unavoidable result of hiking the minimum wage… massive job losses. And this can’t be laid on President Trump. This is attributable to the Fight for 15! idiots. A report from the American Action Forum has come out that the minimum wage hikes will result in 1.8 million job losses. By this summer, […]

OOPS!: Abysmal Liberals Gather to Protest Trump Nominee…Yet Don’t Know His Name Or Who He Is!? [VIDEO]

Posted on January 14, 2017January 15, 2017 by McIntosh

Liberals: If anything, they do one thing in particular very well. They get angry and that anger is currently pointed at President-elect Donald Trump…well, that and with Trump’s proposed cabinet…well, that and with conservatives. Basically they’re pissed at ANYTHING that doesn’t fall in line and agree with them. One independent journalist found this out the […]

Mob Protesting Trump’s Labor Secretary Reveals What MASSIVE IDIOTS They Are – VIDEO

Posted on January 14, 2017January 14, 2017 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

As a rule of thumb, if you are going to protest against someone, it might be a keen idea to actually know who they are. Just sayin’. Andy Puzder is CEO of CKE restaurants, which owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. He’s also President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Labor. A number of “Fight for $15” […]

Chaos for workers and biz when only HALF of Illinois town raises minimum wage

Posted on December 30, 2016December 30, 2016 by Cassy Fiano

Barrington, Illinois is in a state of chaos. See, Cook County, Illinois — home of liberal stronghold Chicago — is going to be slowly raising the minimum wage, from $8.25/hour to $13/hour. Barrington lies within Cook County… or, half of the city does anyway. The other half lies in Lake County, where there is no […]

“Fight For $15” Has Met It’s DOOM With Trump’s Newest Announcement!

Posted on December 8, 2016December 8, 2016 by Alexandria Willis

The Fight for $15 has to be the most frustrating thing I have ever encountered. I have lived in both California and Alabama in the last two years. I have seen and worked in states with the highest and the lowest minimum wages in the nation. And to me the verdict is so disturbingly obvious. […]

McDonald’s Releases ‘Touching Ad Campaign’ In BOLD Move To Hit Back At #FightFor15 VIDEO

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

McDonald’s has just released a fantastic video. It epitomizes the quintessential American value of hard work and puts forth huge support for that character trait. In the short clip, a worker gets accepted to college with the help of McDonald’s. They state it is part of their college assistance program and part of being America’s […]

Minimum Wage Ballot Initiatives Threaten Low-Wage Jobs

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Dave Blount

The names Clinton and Trump aren’t the only truly crazy things to appear on ballots this year. Several states have initiatives to impose higher minimum wage. Unless the object is to drive more low-wage workers out of the workforce and into the waiting arms of the welfare state, they are a bad idea: The real […]

Liberals Fighting For Unemployed To Get Yearly Salaries… [VIDEO]

Posted on September 14, 2016September 15, 2016 by Tiffiny Ruegner

In case you weren’t aware, ‘Lucha por $15’ is how you say ‘Fight for $15’ in Spanish. It’s very important to include Spanish in your protest in case someone chooses to work and live (and WHINE) in the United States is too lazy to learn the national language, English. Anyway, there is a mediocre campaign […]

Fight for $15 Is Denounced as Racist

Posted on September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 by Dave Blount

These days most everything is racist, including even the leftist drive to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. From the Detroit News: Minimum wages require businesses to pay more for employees than they are “worth” in the marketplace. If the cost of hiring employees increases, business owners will be incentivized to hire only employees with […]

New from the Detroit Free Press: The $15 minimum wage is racist [VIDEO]

Posted on September 7, 2016September 7, 2016 by McIntosh

Where to start with the Fight for 15? It is riddled with more problems than the movement lets on and that is just on the economics scale. But here’s one you may not have picked up – Fight for 15 is racist. Yup, no joke there. How do we know this? Well we know it […]

Minimum Wage Hike Leads to Massive Loss of Restaurant Jobs in D.C.

Posted on August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 by Dave Blount

Restaurant workers in the District of Corruption have been treated to an entry level course in fundamental economics: The minimum wage hike in Washington, D.C, is already devastating employment in the region and is linked to the largest loss of restaurant jobs in the last 15 years. Officials raised the minimum wage in July of […]

WE TOLD YOU! Look What Is Happening At Starbucks Just A Year After Raising Minimum Wage [VIDEO]

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Predictably, employees of Starbucks are waking up and smelling the coffee just a wee bit late. A year ago, Starbucks was all for hiking the minimum wage across the country. Many of us warned that if you go against market demand and randomly hike wages far more than the market can bear, there will be […]

Democrats BUSTED For Doing THIS To Companies They Attacked During “Fight For $15”

Posted on July 1, 2016July 2, 2016 by Greg Campbell

Democrats like to pretend that they are just servants of the common man. In reality, they are the kings of cronyism and are prone to accepting money from corporations and special interests with one hand and flipping them the bird with the other. After supposedly siding with the entitled brats demanding a $15 an hour […]

Elizabeth Warren wants a $22 minimum wage, but here’s what she pays her interns

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

For years now, Elizabeth Warren has gone on about wanting a $22 minimum wage. She is supposed to be a genius in economics. Do tell? Only if you want to bankrupt businesses, drive prices sky high and put millions out of work. You know how much she pays her interns? $0, zilch, nada. What a […]