HuffPo And Their Sophist Stupidity

Maybe I’m just cranky, today.  Maybe I’m just tired of reading abject stupidity.  I keep reading stuff and I keep saying to myself over and over again, “they can’t really be that stupid!!”.  But, I fear, they are. 

So HuffPo, as you would imagine, has gone all in at the notion of raising the minimum wage.  And, with such advocacy, we see propaganda from HuffPo. 

Now, for HuffPo, I give an exception.  Most of the authors and readers are not all that evil.  Sure, some are.  And, all of them seem to have a misanthropic tendency, but, most are more simple, sophist, and, frankly, stupid.  They’re incapable of complex thought.  Well, they’re incapable of pretty simple thought. 

For an example of their stupidity and propaganda towards the minimum wage, we see crap like this …….

Now, I don’t uncritically accept these numbers.  I’d love to see how they came to this conclusion, but, for now, let’s pretend they’re true. 

We see the 10 states which have raised the minimum wage, and some pinheads have decided to quantify the jobs impact.  HuffPo and their source say these minimum wage increases provided nearly 1600 more jobs!!!!  Yea!!!!!  WEEEEEE!!!!!!  That’s great!!!!!!

Now, how much did that cost each and every resident of those states?

Wiki has this to say ….

Among those paid by the hour in 2012, 1.6 million were reported as earning exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage. About 2.0 million were reported as earning wages below the minimum.

People whose jobs allow for tips make a lower minimum wage. 

From the map, we see diverse populations.  Let’s assume of the 10 states, in the aggregate they follow the rest of the US, in other words, let’s attribute 1/5 of the numbers above to be the amount of minimum wage earners and below.  So 1/5 of 3.6 million is 720,000 workers who got raises. 

Now, the wages vary from state to state, for instance Washington’s minimum wage is $9.32/hr, while Misery’s is $7.50/hr.  Let’s split the difference and say the average raise, from $7.25/hr was $1.16/hr.  Yes, we’re making broad assumptions, but, we’re just looking for ballpark here in an exercise to demonstrate HuffPo’s stupidity.  So 1/5th of the nation’s population of minimum wage workers got nearly and average of $1.16/hr raise.  To make the math easy for the lunatics and for fudge factor in generosity to the calculation, let’s just round it down to $1/hr.  Now, we’ve 720,000 people with an average of $1/hr raise.  This would, assuming a 30 hr work week, put the cost of that to $1,123,200,000. 

Yep, assuming the 1580 jobs created is accurate, that only cost $710,886 per job created!!!! 

Now, who pays that?  Well, mostly the poor and middle class.  The super rich?  I almost never see them at McDonalds.  The POW, (people of Wal Mart), I almost never see them pull up in their Rolls or other limos. 

You see, this doesn’t create jobs because this money is subtracted from the money which would have otherwise created more jobs than the massively absurd cost of nearly $3/4 million per job!!!!  Won’t this be grand when the rest of the states are forced to extract this wealth from the lower and middle class people!!! 

But, HuffPo, their readers, nor any of the other leftards ever consider this.  They think the money comes from heaven.  But, someone always pays the cost.  For minimum wage, it’s mostly the lower and middle class who bear the brunt of the cost.  The businesses, if they don’t shut down, will simply pass the cost on to the wares they sell. 

BTW, by all reckonings, from what I can see, we will get a minimum wage hike.  It’s an election year and the majority of the people support it.  Most of them support such a measure because reality never enters the conversation.