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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Minimum logic

A small businessman says, in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, how he'll deal with Rendell's minimum wage increase ... let go employees.

Of course, those pushing this Fascist economic policy want to claim that raising the starting wage by 40% will improve our economy and the situation for low-skilled, low-educated citizens.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Matt Hooker, after having withdrawn from politics for the past two years, because of the fraud and intentional torts, malicious prosecution and abuse of process perpetrated upon him by the perjurer, liar and whore Nicole Kidman, her agents and managers, the California Superior Court system, Appellate Court and Supreme Court, the dishonorable Superior Court Judges Alan Haber and John Reid, both of whom broke the law in finding against Hooker - almost certainly for some ulterior motive (the very definition of "abuse of process"), Appellate court judges Doi Todd, Ashmann-Gerst, and the presiding justice Boren, all of whom dishonorably disobeyed the law, almost certainly for some ulterior motive (once again an "abuse of process" and a fraud), the California Supreme Court, who refused to even hear Hooker's appeal, the Los Angeles Police Department, who had Hooker investigated by the Secret Service! because Hooker stated on this web site that President Bush must be removed from office (what happened to freedom of speech?), the perjurer Larry Allison (who alleged that there was a scuffle between himself and Hooker, yet when asked to present the video taken in front of Kidman's house that day couldn't produce it and said that it was lost! One lie to cover up another - and the disgusting judges cooperated in these lies meant to destroy Hooker and benefit Kidman, FOX and others.), the perjurer Richard DiSabatino, and others, probably including Tom Cruise, and possibly President George W Bush; has now decided that he will not allow those criminals to silence him anymore. Matt Hooker trusts the general public to understand that the fraudulent charges and court decisions against him (recall that Judge Haber stated in court when he issued his fraudulent decision against Hooker: "There has been no evidence of stalking, threats or violence. I find that Mr. Hooker has severly annoyed Ms. Kidman") were both a giant smear campaign against Matt Hooker by the fossil fuel burners, polluters and anti-environmentalists, perhaps the Zionists, the religious right and anti-choice groups, the Los Angeles Police Department, and probably President Bush, whom Matt Hooker wants to see removed from office so that our civil rights and the environment can be protected, and so that we don't follow the Zionist course towards World War III and Armageddon; AND was a giant publicity ploy to gain much needed publicity for Kidman, FOX and "Moulin Rouge" and "The Others" (recall at the time Kidman was at the low point in her career and "Moulin Rouge" was way behind schedule and over budget and both desperately needed publicity). The public needs to know that Kidman flirted with Hooker in person and offered to read his screenplay, then Creative Artists Agency refused to take Hooker's calls after he sent them his screenplay as Kidman requested, so Hooker posted a tongue-in-cheek message for Kidman and her agents on a web site, asking Kidman to not let herself be directed away from Hooker and his film projects by her agents and managers (who never like a newcomer to have contact with their bread-and-butter stars). Then Hooker went and rang Kidman's intercom on two and only two occasions, always acting as a gentleman, once leaving a message asking Kidman and her kids out for ice cream, once leaving a message asking Kidman out to the ballet. Both times Kidman was on the other end of the intercom, yet when Hooker asked "Is Nicole home?", he was told that she wasn't (by Kidman herself - Hooker thought he was speaking to perhaps an Australian housekeeper or relative of Kidman's), and he left her a message. Hooker couldn't have known that Kidman didn't want to see him since he was told that Kidman was not at home, by Kidman herself! Kidman also gave Hooker reason to believe she liked him at that time by buying him a ticket to a concert at St. Matthews Church in Pacific Palisades, and by referring to him in a magazine article ("I don't know why anyone would want to be president"), which someone unknown to Hooker pointed out to Hooker. There's nothing wrong or illegal about a man asking a woman out two times, yet the corrupt judges and court system make it seem like there is. Hooker is no celebrity "fan", he never even saw "Moulin Rouge", "The Others" or any of Kidman's later films, and he never will. Hooker just tried to date a woman and tried to get a female star to sign on to his film project. Is there a law against being entrepreneurial? Is there one law for the common people and another for the wealthy and the celebrities? It certainly seems so, and Matt Hooker will reform the corrupt legal system when he is in office. Kidman lied and said she didn't know Hooker. Hooker has since seen evidence that makes him believe that Kidman is an emotional retard and may have been sexually abused by her father and / or uncle - which would help to explain her horrible character problems. Larry Allison (who was a classmate of Hookers at Crespi High School and may be part of a drug using and drug dealing gang of surfers and their law enforcement protectors who had been harassing Hooker) and Richard DiSabatino perjured themselves in court. Matt Hooker has always been a gentleman in every way, especially where women are concerned. Additionally, evidence implicating the zionists and the religious right (President Bush is a christian fundamentalist, or claims to be, and he admits to being under the control of the powerful Zionist Israeli lobby and seeks the votes of the zionist - religious right christian plus jews - voting blocks) in this defamation and smear campaign includes Ron Meyer, a Jew and probably a zionist, who was one of the founders of Creative Artists Agency and is now the President of Universal Studios or its parent corporation, and my father, who is a born again christian fundamentalist who has harassed me trying to convert me for years. Years before this defamation took place, Hooker had phoned Kelly Chapman, a former lover, and joking with her on the phone when she told him she had gotten married, joked that maybe now they could have an affair. Unknown to Hooker, his office telephone, from where he placed that call, was illegally tapped by one christian of caribbean origin, Richard Williams, who had at that time just recently rented the office next door, and his accomplices, the private telephone repairman he had referred to Hooker whom Hooker hired to install an additional line in the office, and the woman, another friend of this Richard Williams, another christian of Caribbean origin, who had rented the office below Hooker. Hooker's father, the born-again christian fundamentalist, along with another powerful and well-connected Jew and probable zionist, Milt Dranow and his wife Betty, had screwed Hooker when Hooker worked for their company, and were probably behind the phone tap. Both Dranow and Ron Meyer have connections with the US military, also. In any case, soon after Hooker had the telephone conversation with Kelly Chapman, his former lover, and now and at that time the wife of Ron Meyer, Hooker was drugged while eating dinner at Granita restaurant in Malibu. Granita is owned by Wolfgang Puck, a well-connected Hollywood chef. Some of Hooker's relatives may have been involved in this drugging. Many lawyers are close to the judge Alan Haber who illegally ruled against Hooker! Once again we find judges in bed with attorneys, and the general public who can't afford an attorney left our in the cold, unrepresented, with abridged rights under the law - an unconstitutional situation that Hooker will change when he is elected. My how the world turns! Hooker spent 10 hours in the UCLA emergency room after dinner that night. The hospital bill came to $2,000 - exactly the amount of money Hooker owed his mother, who, along with Hooker's sister Megan Stoll and brother-in-law, Robert Stoll Jr., had invited Hooker to Granita restaurant, and were at dinner with him that night to celebrate Megan's birthday. This was the beginning of Hooker's troubles and the beginning of strange behavior on the part of Hollywood agents and stars towards Hooker, and Los Angeles and Santa Monica police department officers strange behavior towards Hooker. Since that time, people have violated Hooker's rights, and then tried to silence, discredit and harm Hooker when he went public about those violations of his rights. Hooker believes that Kidman is not very intelligent and is not the mastermind behind the set-up of and defamation of Hooker, but rather is a whore willing to do whatever her controllers - agents, managers, directors, producers, etc... - tell her to do. Nevertheless she is as guilty as they are, and the full nature and details of this entire fraud against Hooker will be uncovered.

Rock Throwing Peasant said...

The minimum wage lost it's pull on voters some time ago. I don't see this as a winning proposition. In fact, I'm curious to see how many folks of voting age earn minimum wage. Of those, how many vote. This is not to say they'd be the only ones in favor (or even that they favor it - see below), but it should give an idea of how many potential votes it can move.

The three most common responses in opposition to the minimum wage increases have a way of being more effective than the arguments for it.

There will be job cuts and those left employeed will have to compensate for the lost employee for the additional $1 an hour or so (sometimes not worth the extra dollar).

Those making above minimum do not have their wage increased.

If the minimum wage is such a great idea, raise it to $20 an hour! Why not? When they answer, they'll lead back to the ideas that make it a bad idea from the jump.