Forum Post: ALEC is Coming to a Paycheck Near You!
Posted 12 years ago on April 20, 2012, 2 p.m. EST by shoozTroll
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Disappointed that people started to notice the incredibly horrid social policy that ALEC has been paying to get enacted, They have decided that your paycheck should be the focus of their next assault on common decency and the American way.
Race to the bottom with ALEC!!
The "Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act" would repeal and then ban local "living wage" ordinances like the ones in some 140 cities that provide a higher minimum for city workers/contractors -- enough to maintain a safe, decent standard of living in a community. Similarly, the ALEC "Starting (Minimum) Wage Repeal Act" would preempt the ability of localities to pay a minimum wage higher than the federal level. Some 22 states allow starting wages, but ALEC objects to the policy as an "unfunded mandate."
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8625-hang-onto-that-paycheck-alec-sharpens-focus-on-jobs
We need a living wage nationwide!
ALEC = Moral Bankruptcy
ALEC=Brain lazy (R)epelican'ts, controlled by neolibe(R)tarians.
That stinks! I can't even eat at pizza hut or taco bell anymore. Well, good we have great Chinese here. I'm pretty sure they aren't members of Alex. Pizza Hut was doing $10 pizza's too. I keep reading who is doing what and shopping does get simpler as the number of companies I don't want to support grows.
What's wrong with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell? Coke sold off their Yum division a little while back. Are they ALEC supporters?
"Today, YUM Brands was the 12th company to announce that it was pulling out of ALEC." Found it! I can EAT PIZZA!!!!! Thanks, I was reading kinda fast and missed that. It don't change the fact they were sitting around in those meetings last year and I was blissfully consuming their products unaware.
Hopefully, more continue to do the same. In my opinion, ALEC itself should go away. And all of their ilk.
I'm with you there.
Me too! I hope someone makes a shopping guide for the jerks who haven't bailed yet. It disgusts me how many were sitting around in those meetings while no one knew about it.
Yes, shop farmers markets!
It's not about "minimun wage" it's about people paying enough to cover the basic cost of providing labor, so the tax payers don't have to make up the difference.
Or minimmun wage, which ever way you look at it.
It also came to a voting booth near you.
And people voted for em. Not directly, but by endorsing those who accept money from them, people keep the machine going.
Great job as usual America.
As usual your response has absolutely NOTHING to do with the OP.
You've even gone back to the "partisanship" you used to bitch so much about.
God, what a hypocrite.
Great article.
The more I look, the more I find.
Somebody want to tell me again, how there's no difference between the parties?
We know why they do that.
It's telling that they have little or no comment in these type of threads.
The omission is glaring.
That it is. Very glaring. And I notice that the douches that are doing favors for OWS for free are not present.
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Where's the outrage from the States rights advocates?
This is a clear attempt to abrogate States rights, by a decidedly (R)epelican't organization.
One with the full backing of the VERY libe(R)tarian Koch brothers.
It would likely violate the Constitutions of the States involved as well.
Most of the "States Rights" advocates are just pushing the 1% agenda in disguise. They support states rights when it's convienant, and they don't when it isn't.
Just look at medical marijuana laws. The feds intervene with impunity and you don't hear anything from "State's Rights" advocates.
That's why I always stress to those that say there is no difference, to look at what's going on the States.
They ignore it.
When you explain to them that modern libertarianism was co founded by a Koch brother.
They ignore it.
You got it. Modern Liberatarianism is a front for the 1% that has hoodwinked a lot of people who really think they are defending freedom, but haven't done the research. That's it.
Neolibertarianism.
I coined the term out of respect for those that support the social tenets.
They always get lost in the economics, and the truth is, the neolibers never really promote that aspect anyway.
True!
"As a Neolibertarian, I reserve the right to misinterpret the Constitution to achieve the ends I want", he said. "Of course I also reserve the right to misinterpret the Bible, the dictionary and the funny papers, for the same ends, At least I am consistent. Let me be clear, my ends are not yours."