Obama should fire advisers over gas prices: Romney

[birdman]

If I look at the prices/wages since I graduated from HS in 1972, then "minimum wage" should be about $16.00/hr right now :(

Minimum wage is one of the more significant causes of unemployment and poverty.  Before minimum wage laws there was effectively no structural unemployment.

[longeyes]

I'll say it again: Romney, manifest warts and all, buys us time and gives us some wiggle room while we figure how to stop the juggernaut and turn it around.   A second Obama term guarantees, in my view, the most tumultuous social and political environment conceivable.  Unfortunately, either way the nation is plausibly ungovernable.

[Tallpine]

Minimum wage is one of the more significant causes of unemployment and poverty.  Before minimum wage laws there was effectively no structural unemployment.

I'm not promoting the minimum wage 

I'm simply stating that the mininum wage 40 years ago had a lot more buying power than the minimum wage now.

[birdman]

I'm not promoting the minimum wage 

I'm simply stating that the mininum wage 40 years ago had a lot more buying power than the minimum wage now.

I figured as much, but couldn't determine if that was meant as evidence to support a conclusion that there is major inflation, that the min. Wage should be increased, or what.

Sorry.

[seeker_two]

I'll say it again: Romney, manifest warts and all, buys us time and gives us some wiggle room while we figure how to stop the juggernaut and turn it around.   A second Obama term guarantees, in my view, the most tumultuous social and political environment conceivable.  Unfortunately, either way the nation is plausibly ungovernable.

Buys time for what?.....changing the name back to RomneyCare?.....

[Boomhauer]

I may be out to lunch but I have a vague memory of Obama making a statement that he thought $5.00 a gallon gas was a good price for it.

He and his ilk would love it if gas was $10 a gallon.

[longeyes]

Buys time for what?.....changing the name back to RomneyCare?.....

To see if there's any chance of avoiding a terminal separation.

Look, we can hit the wall in November or we can hit it a bit later.  You may be prepared; not everyone is from what I see.  I went to a Tea Party meeting last where a video detailing what we are dealing with was shown ("Agenda," by Curtis Bowers).  At the end people were asked what we could do about the grim scenario.  The answer: Prayer.

[MicroBalrog]

I'll say it again: Romney, manifest warts and all, buys us time and gives us some wiggle room while we figure how to stop the juggernaut and turn it around.

We already know it. It is a question of will.

[longeyes]

Yes, will it is.  Will and clarity.  And how much of either is there at this point?  The GOP is largely missing in action, perhaps complicit, and I think many of us feel left out of the game.