I just about spit my drink out. hahahahahaaha

...if "Hot Black" Desiato doesn't beat me to it.

who's ranting or insulting?

Again, just because it's a full time job, does not mean you get to reap the rewards that others enjoy. There's a simple solution for that, improve your skills and make like the Jeffersons....Movin' on up....

Let's face it, not everyone is meant to be a Fortune 500 CEO, and nobody is completely worthless....they can always serve as a bad example. That doesn't make me dis-compassionate, it just acknowledging the reality.

You ask that as if you're not supposed to have poor people.

News flash. Being successful is not a right. If you want to be successful you have to work for it, or be prepared to accept mediocrity. Life isn't "fair"...but it *IS* fair, because you get out of it what you put into it. Living and breathing does not give you access to the world's coffers.

If you think it wouldn't have an influence on inflation, then you're dumber than Obama looks.

I've lived through several minimum wage increases...and it's the same every time. The people at minimum wage are happier they get more money. The people just above minimum wage essentially get a paycut, now you have more people at the same wage, and there's money in the money supply, the cost of goods and services goes up in excess of standard inflation. More poor people are created as a result.

This is econ 101 stuff, not rocket science.

eating out and traveling is not a right. It's a luxury. That's what you kids forget, you don't know how to live within your means and think you MUST have a cell phone, you MUST have internet. Bullsh*te....it's not a right, just because you want it.

except what you're missing. Everyone who's already working at those wages are now part of that minimum wage caste....and if you think THEY'RE getting raises? Think again.

...you just made everyone who already made $15-$20 part of the low wage earners, and slapped them in the face.

(a fry cook does NOT deserve a wage that is equal to teacher/solider/fireman/police officer.)

I-40, I-44, I-70, I-80, I-10...take your pick....and those are the federal roads, the state highways are in even worse shape.

Get of your mom's basement and take a trip somewhere, you'll see.

...ahh but what you're forgetting is that Google already does that, and the catch...users do it willingly (Chrome, Docs, gmail...etc. etc. etc). They've really done a great job of positioning themselves such that their value-added services seem like a fair tradeoff to their users giving up their data.

Now you're just arguing to hear yourself argue. Nobody said ANYTHING about wanton poisoning of people's homes, leap to wrong conclusions much?

Only a complete idiot thinks every independent scientist is correct.

(how's that global warming working out for ya?)

...I wouldn't have said anything to begin with if the original premise was correct. But if you want to believe everything your government tells you, be my guest.

Actually, he is published, and rather extensively. (USGS often calls him. Just to put that in perspective).

Or place blame where blame is due...like overly restrictive regulations that forced hydraulic fracturing on existing wells instead of being able to drill new ones...thanks EPA.

Fallin is hardly to blame...its one big shell-game by the corporations and by the time it reaches the gov's desk its already an institution.

I say let em keep going, I like earthquakes.