10:04 PM

In the immortal words of Eric Cartman... "Democrats piss me off."

Earlier, Al Sharpton said that Republicans still owed African Americans the 40 Acres and a Mule President Lincoln promised them. Ho boy.

Then, I caught the tail end of John John Edward's speech tonight, just in time to hear him talk about how much he and Big John are going to support the military in funding, technology and numbers (do I need to go over Big John's Senate voting record on military funding? He didn't want the B-2 bomber!) how they won't take 3 years to make changes in intelligence as suggested by the 9/11 Commission (a report President Bush has had... two weeks? and once again, I didn't see Sen. Big John proposing anything for the last 20 years from the Senate) and, in a sure plea to the informed Democratic base, proposed an increase in the minimum wage.

Sad that the suggestion of increasing the minimum wage got more applause than supporting the troops, but I'm not shocked. Promising an increase in the minimum wage is nothing more than pandering for votes, though they claim it will END POVERTY. Let's think about this.

If you increase he minimumwage, those companies that employ people based at minimum wage must make the difference either by cutting jobs or increasing prices. An automatic hit is felt by everyone INCLUDING WORKERS PAID AT MINIMUM WAGE as McDonald's, grocery stores, WalMarts, etc (who all employ mass numbers of employees at or just above minimum wage) increase their prices to make the difference. At best the "playing field" is slightly leveled for maybe a year until cost of living increases kick in for many higher-paid workers.

The minimum wage workers will enjoy a bigger number on their paychecks, but then two years later they'll ask "Why is milk $5/gallon when it was $4 two years ago?" Minimum wage workers will still be in poverty just in time for Komrade Klinton to suggest another increase when she runs. Increasing minimum wage has no real effect, it washes out.

If you want to beat poverty, improve schools and keep jobs in America instead of shipping them to India. Those will have real effects as generally the more educated you are, the better paid you are and there will then be jobs here for people to work at.