FAO Americans - michelle bachmann

cm1179 · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:07

http://floridaindependent.com/36280/michele-bachmann-president

how do you feel about her and can you tell me or anyone else who is interested a little more about the general concensus throughout the country?

Aod · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:17

what a nutjob. removing the minimum wage in America would completely devastate the workforce.

G-MAN2004 · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:20

What an idiot.

Raikiri · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:22

It's like they pick these candidates just so they don't get a woman elected. They're all ****ing morons.

semi-pro waster · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:23

A few people I've spoken to think she's about as nutty as Sarah Palin but more dangerous in that she has a slightly better chance of getting elected president given she's somewhat more erudite and thus far less prone to horrendous gaffes.

Hatter The Mad · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:23

What she said is flawed and exaggerated, but she is partly. The minimum wage in this country came in at the expense of 100,000s of jobs.

hurfdurf · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:25

I cannot see her getting the nomination let alone winning an election, but if it were to happen it would probably mean the end of the world, or at least the end of American exceptionalism.

antijoke · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:25

White Mouse · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:25

She is probably right but it just sounds bad because its a complicated issue summed up in one sentence.

The minimum wage is at best pointless and at worst only serves to destroy the lives of the people it is supposed to be helping. Obviously people with Buy-to-Let empires get a nice kick out of it though.

You can just go to google scholar and type in 'UK minimum wage' - see what the results of the academic journals are that you come back with.

Dabbles · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:26

Raikiri said:
It's like they pick these candidates just so they don't get a woman elected. It's like they're all ****ing morons.

Look what happened when our only female Prime Minister was in power.

Danthus · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:27

The minimum wage has kept wages suppressed.

Naff8000 · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:27

She said before that members of Congress need to be investigated as to whether they are anti-American or not.

cm1179 · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:28

Dabbles said:
Look what happened when our only female Prime Minister was in power.

i've heard a lot of people and by that i mean anyone i've spoken to who is late 40's+ say that they preferred the way things were under thatcher when it came to finances

White Mouse · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:31

OldCoals said:
The minimum wage has kept wages suppressed.

The only reason debate about it is stifled is because any suggestion of removing it will just be met with simplistic cries about being horrible etc like most things in any topic today

Dabbles · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:32

cm1179 said:
i've heard a lot of people and by that i mean anyone i've spoken to who is late 40's+ say that they preferred the way things were under thatcher when it came to finances

Obviously you haven't asked people in the North East. A lot of very bitter people around here.

Danthus · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:32

White Mouse said:
The only reason debate about it is stifled is because any suggestion of removing it will just be met with simplistic cries about being horrible etc like most things in any topic today

Absolutely.

semi-pro waster · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:33

cm1179 said:
i've heard a lot of people and by that i mean anyone i've spoken to who is late 40's+ say that they preferred the way things were under thatcher when it came to finances

Without getting this debate onto Mrs Thatcher it very much depends on who you speak to what the prevailing opinion is as I could say the polar opposite from my experience.

cm1179 · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:41

semi-pro waster said:
Without getting this debate onto Mrs Thatcher it very much depends on who you speak to what the prevailing opinion is as I could say the polar opposite from my experience.

true, i understand this and should have clarified that i meant from my area. i was actually born in the north east, dabbles but didn't stay there long.

[TW]Fox · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:41

semi-pro waster said:
Without getting this debate onto Mrs Thatcher it very much depends on who you speak to what the prevailing opinion is as I could say the polar opposite from my experience.

Your experience of what, being 7 years old when she was forced out of power?

dowie · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:42

She's nutty as and completely off on various topics - however sometimes (on a few occasions) she does get it bang on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY