▪️This meme claims “base worker pay” has been stuck for 15 years, failing to mention that essentially no full time worker earns the Federal min wage, as I’ve repeatedly shown on this page. Most people would be surprised to learn that avg hourly earnings have actually increased by 64% since 2007, from $20.59/hr to $33.82.
▪️For the reply guys whining about using avg hourly earnings for all workers, if you look at non-supervisory and production workers, their wages increased even more since 2007; 69%, from $17.09/hr to $29.
▪️And leisure & hospitality workers, the lowest paid category, increased even more! A 76% increase since 2007, from $12.07/hr to $21.30.
▪️I’m also skeptical of the claim CEO pay increased 150% during the same time, as that stat comes from a 2020 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left wing activist group. Equilar, which does analysis for the Associated Press, reported this year that median total compensation for S&P 500 CEOs was $14.8M. That’s median not avg, but a long way off from $24M in the meme.
https://www.equilar.com/reports/101-equilar-associated-press-ceo-pay-study-2023
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
