Obama Opposes Minimum Wage Hike!

Well, in Haiti, anyway. Apparently he is supporting companies outsourcing jobs to foreign countries, and even supports the corporatists' efforts to maintain slave labor wages. And you fools thought Obama supported the "little guy!" Lol! Wrong! Obama does not give a DAMN about you . . . Unless, of course, you are a multinational corporation. He gives a damn about big business. But not you!

Strike another one for Wikileaks. The ever-controversial leaker of the world’s best-kept secrets has published a wire on The Nation that reveals the Obama Administration fought to keep the Haitian minimum wage to 31 cents an hour.

According to the published wire (which came to light thanks in large part to the Haiti Liberte, a newspaper based in Port-au-Prince and New York City), Haiti passed a law in 2012 raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. America corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss vociferously objected, claiming such an increase would irreparably harm their business and profitability. According to the leaked U.S. Embassy cable, keeping these garment workers at “slave wages,” was better for the two companies The corporations in question allegedly stated that they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, eventually going so far as to involve the U.S. State Department.

Soon, the U.S. Ambassador put pressure on Michel Martelly, the president of Haiti, to find a middle ground, resulting in a $3-a-day minimum wage for all textile companies. To put it in perspective, the United States’s minimum wage—already considered extremely low—works out to roughly to $58 a day.

Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers, who are somehow getting by on these abysmal wages. According to Business Insider, if each garment worker was paid just $2 more a day, it would cost their given corporate employers $50,000 per working day, or $12.5 million a year. Hanes, the garment company best known for their t-shirts, had roughly 3,200 Haitians working in their factory. An increase of $2 a day would cost the company a mere $1.6 million a year—for a company that had $4.3 billion in sales last year alone.

http://www.alternet.org/labor/wikile...n-minimum-wage

A post about a story about a story from another website that was pulled and that erroneously attributes statements to the State Department that are really statements from the story that the story is linked to.

I think I'd like to know a little bit more about the facts before I take your word for it COG.

Only the first paragraph is COG's, and all is he says us the President does not give a damn about you, which is pretty true.

Good article. But the minimum wage is bullshit until there is a maximum wage.

SNICK.

Dipshit COG doesn't give a DAMN about you!

Wrong time to increase the minimum wage ...