According to CBSNewYork.com “Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Times Square Wednesday evening in protest over the recent landmark nuclear deal with Iran. Jessica Schneider reported, some 10 thousand are rallying in solidarity with signs and voices raised against the nuclear deal.
At the same time, “In Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry led back-to-back, closed-door briefings, trying to sway lawmakers to approve the deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program."
Kerry said, “We are convinced that the agreement that we have arrived at with world powers is an agreement that will prevent Iran from the potential of securing a nuclear weapon. It will make the region, our friends and allies safer, it will make the world safer.“
Then he added, “And we are convinced that the absence of any viable alternative absolutely underscores that fact.”
However, what Kerry’s blatant misrepresentation omitted was that the major reason Iran agreed to negotiation in the first place was that the sanctions paced on that nation were obviously working. So much so, they’d appear to agree to practically anything to get them released. Which means that their removal at this point is an absolutely colossal mistake.
Next, Dan Springer @FoxNews.com writes about another misjudgment by short-sighted, self-serving politicians. In this case, regarding minimum wage hikes, as follows:
Mr. Springer explains that, “Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.”
However, it appears that there is far more than only one “hitch.”
On one hand, “Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise – in a bid to keep overall income down so they don’t lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.
In that regard, “Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz show on 97.3 KIRO-FM pointed out, “If they cut down their hours to stay on those subsidies because the $15 per hour minimum wage didn’t actually help get them out of poverty, all you’ve done is put a burden on the business and given false hope to a lot of people.”
And then, in another significant backfire to the wage increase that should have been obvious to lawmakers beforehand, “Some restaurants have tacked on a 15 percent surcharge to cover the higher wages. And some managers are no longer encouraging customers to tip, leading to a redistribution of income. Workers in the back of the kitchen, such as dishwashers and cooks, are getting paid more, but servers who rely on tips are seeing a pay cut.”
But these results are only the beginning of future woes, whereas the automation presently being created to replace higher cost laborers will result in countless numbers of low-level personnel losing their jobs altogether to technology.
Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.
An article by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy @time.com containing Bill Clinton’s plan for 2016 includes some history regarding he and his wife.
Bill recalls that, “I asked her to marry me three times before she said yes, and the first time I said, ‘I want you to marry me but you shouldn’t do it.’” At the time, “He told her she was most talented pol of their generation, the most natural leader, with the best command of the issues, and rather than marry him, she should go to Chicago or New York and get into politics.
To which she responded: “Oh my God … I’ll never run for office. I’m too aggressive, and nobody will ever vote for me.”
At that point, Bill pauses, shakes his head, and says “True story.”
The reason Bill’s story was worth mention is that it may contain the only genuinely true and correct self-assessment his wife ever offered.
Mayor Bloomberg and Joe Biden, are you reading this?
That’s it for today folks.
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