'Progressive' Solution for Ghastly 25+% Real Black Unemployment Rate? Price Them Completely Out-of-the-Market with $10/hour Minimum Wage!

"The minimum wage is the 

'Black Teenage Unemployment Act'... 

The guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities 

and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is 

if you price their original services too high..."  -Art Laffer

As Rep Duncan Hunter (R-Ca) attempts to floor a bill that would force the US Labor Department to publish real unemployment numbers -ones that actually reflect the all-time-record number of Americans who have given up/left the labor force- some Democrats are now planning to unveil ill-advised legislation that would hike the federal minimum wage to as much as ten bucks an hour... a monstrous and unprecedented 35% leap from the current $7.25/hr (!)

Small wonder the Obama Administration feels the need to lie about the appalling number of jobless Americans today... 
all he's planning to do is make it worse.

Such a gargantuan increase in the minimum wage will only help those who already have jobs, and anybody (and their dog) can tell you that this sort of thing -along with massive tax hikes- is about the worst possible idea the Dems could propose here in the midst of the Great Recession.

Alas- since the habitually dishonest Obama regime is so skilled at purporting that they're helping the economy by crippling it, winning wars by quitting, and bringing us together by igniting race wars, nobody should be too surprised to see them tell unemployed young blacks they're 'helping' them while pricing their labor completely out of the market.

Politics is obviously at the core of this transparent election-year stunt (along with pressure from Bolshevik boneheads of the #occupy movement, desperate to produce some 'gain' from the last few wasted months), yet 'income-equality' is just another manufactured 'debate' (i.e. 'access-to-birth control' charades) the White House is keen to introduce to the conversation this year (and shift the topic from myriad reasons to not vote for them):

Many Democrats and their labor allies say the time is right to push for another increase, and not just because it is hard to live on the $15,080 a year earned by a person working full time at minimum wage. 

They say a public debate now over the merits of increasing wages is bound to put many Republicans on the defensive during an election year and would encourage low-income Americans — an important part of the Democratic base — to go to the polls this November. 

 “It’s always good to surface an issue that captures voters’ enthusiasm and distinguishes the bad guys and the good guys,” said Jen Kern, minimum wage campaign coordinator at the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for low-wage workers.

This one's just like Barack likes 'em, too... he can pretend to be aiding unemployed blacks and others while actually ensuring hordes of entitlement-dependent serfs remain surgically-attached to the 'progressive' Left for the foreseeable future- perfect.

Simply put, Barack Obama is black America's worst enemy: Van Jones may think that Obama owns you, but imho it might be time for more African-Americans to take a real hard look at what this guy has actually done for you... which is in-reality squat by any measure (unless you happen by odd chance to be running a scam 'green energy' outfit).

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