A South Carolina contractor has pleaded guilty in what the state Attorney General's Office calls one of the state's largest frauds against a small town.
In exchange for pleading guilty, Spartanburg contractor Callis J. Anderson received five years probation on the condition he pays back a small portion of more than $500,000 he was accused
So cities rise, cities fall on bad or good economic policy. rick, seattle s minimum wage now is even bigger than washington state s minimum wage. it is a little bit bigger than the average in washington state and yet you have all been sitting here telling us how great the state s mandated minimum wage. but seattle does pay more. you re right about that. also keep in mind this minimum wage is going to grow gradually. i have to highlight, i heard sabrina say i was right. so what i want to say is good night folks and according to steve there won t be any more waitresses left. go ahead quickly. this is a price control. we know from the nixon era that price controls fail and are bad for the economy. this is a form of a price control and they ll win that suit because there s a crazy discrimination against the franchisers.
What do you make of that argument? well, rick vieth. the problem is this is all about politics and not good policy. i was at a con vens this week as well and it was all about women voters. 2-thirds of whom are minimum wage earners are women. the problem is they re presenting this as a way to alleviate poverty but that s not because people are in low paid fast food jobs it s because they don t have access to jobs at all. less than 9% of people living in poverty who are 16 and older had full time work. 67% didn t have work at all. this is the problem. it s not the low wages. so rich it slammed those that are poor. is that what you think too? well, of course it does. and it could set in motion a bunch of things that could be destructive for seattle s growth. let us not forget in the 1970s seattle is so busted there was a billboard that said will the last person to leave seattle please turn out the lights.
We need to get moving on becoming less dependent on mideast soil? absolutely. we should have that kind of a back up. the pipeline should have been approved years ago. also the white house should rule restrictions on federal lands on drilling for gas and oil and they should also green light. so bull market there. more supply and we ll get through this crisis but we have to get the signal out there and the white house is not giving it. rick, we have them saying it and the nebraska governor saying we have a route for you, why not build the keystone. actually, i don t know that you can draw this strong connection between the terrible things happening in iraq and the value of the keystone pipeline would add in bringing down prices. it might bring it down a tiny bit but most experts will tell you it s not going to be huge. but i will make a prediction