Monday, July 13, 2015
Another Joe Hogsett Commercial
Labor Day may still be close to two months away, but Joe Hogsett is saturating the Indianapolis TV market with television ads for his mayoral campaign like candidates typically wait until the final thirty days of a campaign to do, an indication of just how much money he anticipates having to spend on what is likely to be a record-setting, costly mayoral race. His latest ad pitches a summer jobs program for youth that he has proposed, targeting African-American voters.
Hogsett's plan would create 1,000 summer jobs for teens at $8 an hour. He says the plan would not cost taxpayers a dime. Instead, he plans to rely on private business donations and grants to fund the $3 million program.
I'm curious if Hogsett's summer jobs program will be offered to illegal aliens as well. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel expanded the city's 23,000 summer jobs program for youth this year to cover the city's large illegal immigrant population. There is little dispute that chronically high unemployment among African-Americans is largely attributable to jobs filled instead by the tens of millions who make up the nation's illegal immigrant population.
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Another feel good Lying Democrat Joe Hogsett ad that tells me nothing about what he plans to do differently than his predecessor. The irony is that left liberal Democrat socialist policies have devastated the free market sector where many first time jobs originate for the teenagers pictured.
Speaking of the teenagers pictured, I happen to think this ad is racist and the ad speaks volumes how liberal Democrat Joe Hogsett profiles the majority of the youth who are depicted in this video. Some might say Lying Joe Hogsett, no spry chicken himself, is carbon-copying the aged Hillary Rodham Clinton in pandering to the African American vote.
Perhaps this is what Lying Joe plans to do if elevated to the mayor's chair... adhere to the time honored left liberal Democrat tradition of pandering to special interest groups.
Lying Joe is not a bad meme to contrast with Plumber Joe who easily took the measure of our affirmative action President....
If Lying Joe wanted to help Blacks he'd do away with the Minimum Wage as a Democrat Party Policy. It was racist in origin, intent and effect. But, don't expect Lying Joe to do anything so positive as propose a free market solution to any social problem.
Really Anon 6:18? Such a silly, partisan post. I like Hogsett's ads. He's trying to let the voters get to know him better. I think that's a warm, friendly strategy. I hate vicious attack ads. So these early Hogsett ads are a breath of fresh air. I don't know what you think a Republican candidate can do better. Ballard wasn't a very well liked mayor, and he ran on pretty solid conservative credentials during his campaign, or don't you remember all that business and military background stuff he threw out there to contrast himself with "professional politician Bart Peterson." There isn't any credible conservative alternative to Hogsett. So stop bellyaching your "liberal left" nonsense and throwing around derogatory terms like pandering. You don't pass the smell test bubba.
Sorry Anon 7:16, but an Indianapolis mayor can't "do away with the minimum wage." And by the way, the minimum wage was not "racist in origin, intent and effect." That's just something actual racists say.
There be a lot of Anonymous sorts here with some of them unable to read or know stuff. One, as the putative leader of the Indiana Democrat Party, Lying Joe could have influence in doing away with the racist minimum wage AND ITS EVIL PRACTICAL EFFECTS. The anon 8:06 p.m. is talking thru his or her unlearned hat. Minimum wage laws, like prevailing wage laws were and are racist in origin, in intent, and most especially, in EFFECT. They work so well that there is some thought that apartheid was based on American wage laws....just so you get your racism straight and undiluted. Lying Joe's band aid isn't going to work any better than pissing against the wind. Abolishing the minimum wage law would work, it would work quickly, and it would be a great benefit to society by reducing one of the liberal pathologies designed to work against Blacks, against Black families, against the Black population waged by liberals "since they don't want so many of a certain people".
Could it be the word "pandering" is a descriptor of a truth or a fact? Politicians on both sides of the political aisle pander but liberal Democrats have elevated pandering to an art form.
Deriding the word "pandering" as "derogatory" is employed by the PC speech police to smear a valid statement and to change the subject- this is what liberals predictably do when confronted with differing ideas or opinions.
Sorry Anon 8:17, but you're wrong. If you reduced the minimum wage in the State of Indiana tens of thousands of low income employees would see their wages drop. It would hurt, not help, the black community. Employers would happily pay their janitors and maids $4 per hour if they could. I understand you believe market forces would intercede and wages would rise, but you're wrong. If you believe in more fairness, then look at what Seattle has done. They raised the minimum wage, believing it was the only thing that would guarantee a living, livable wage for those only employable at the minimum rate. I find this has more merit for the black community than eliminating the minimum wage, which would be a disaster.
Oh come on now, Anon 8:42. You attack liberals every way you can, then claim they elevate pandering to an art form. What a hypocrite. I can show you plenty of instances of Republican pandering. How about Greg Ballard. He ran as a conservative, fiscally responsible Republican who believed in funding the police and supporting common sense spending. Now that's pandering. Because it wasn't true. He didn't believe in those things. And he didn't practice that philosophy. This is true of "conservative" Republicans quite regularly, who actually vote to spend in Congress, and in the Statehouse, at levels at least as high as Democrats. I repeat my earlier statement. Constantly calling out Democrats the way you do by calling them the "liberal left" and accusing them of "pandering." Its hypocritical. And its just name calling. It doesn't actually address the substance of the issues. I haven't caught Hogsett in a lie yet, and that's the reason I still like him. Who, exactly, is your Republican candidate for Mayor? And can you swear he hasn't lied to you? Sorry. I voted for Greg Ballard. But he was one lying Republican. And now I'm voting for Hogsett. You can blather on all you want, but I haven't heard a whit of sense out of you yet.
No one said to reduce the minimum wage. It was stated that it needs be eliminated, done away with, ended, scrapped as a failure, no more racism by fiddling with wage laws. I'm skipping Seattle for the first time in some 30 years but I well understand the stupidity of that City even before it was taken over by California migrants and Bill Gate$. Dummies and racists have been toying with minimum wages for over 100 years. By their fruits you will know them....a bit of old wisdom. Every good tree bears good fruit but the bad tree bears bad fruit. Unemployment is one such bad fruit and so policies that promote it need to be cut down and thrown into the fire. Lying Joe's policy will only delay what should be done.
Anon 1:01, why stop with going back 100 years to a time before minimum wages. Just go back a full 150 years and you can get to zero wages. Right? Isn't that where your moronic argument about eliminating the minimum wage gets us? So listen up. If you scrap the minimum wage thousands of Indiana employers are going to start offering women and the disabled and the very young and entry level types including blacks $4 an hour. And they will all go on food stamps and assistance. And your taxes will go up. And McDonalds and Walmart will get cheap labor at your expense. We put the minimum wage in place to force employers to do their share. Its called modern society. If you want to go back 150 years, try Africa or the Middle East. No minimum wage.
Having been recently reminded of my lack of tact it occurs to me to try to persuade via analogy. Most Hoosiers don't support rent control and have, in Indiana never experienced it. To some great extent then, pure market forces determine rents. I notice, for instance, that the august body known as the Indiana Manufacturer's Association is moving their offices. I'd wager that RENT was the major factor. Prop 98 was defeated in California mostly because it had contained in it a phase out of rent control in California. It is an issue rather easy to demagogue. "Government" control of property in California is a huge joke, at least to folks from Indiana as Hoosiers have more than adequate housing at very reasonable cost in comparison. Heck, we have abandoned houses in Indianapolis that would go for six figures in LA ! Let's suppose that Prop 98 would have passed and controls over housing, apartments, etc. had been phased out. What would one rationally expect of home prices/rents? In the short term, I'd look for rents to increase/adjust however, in the longer term rents would decline and quite rapidly because supply of rentals would respond to demand. If you look at New York City's rent control projects you could expect the same thing though in broad swaths of that city properties have been abandoned because of rent control and other government stupidities. I think the same thing with minimum wage. Most burger flippers already pay over minimum wage because 60,000,000 people were murdered and are not paying into social security. The benefits of putting people to work far exceed the calculation of "living wages" and other claptrap though wages exchanged for work are a benefit for both employer and employee.
Anon 10:20, What does Greg Ballard have to do with the devious political left? Other than the fact both RINO establishment "R's" and liberal Democrats are indistinguishable. You proved 8:42's point without even comprehending your negated your own thesis.
That's right, Anon 3:10 PM.
Because NOTHING gets done unless the GOVERNMENT does it for us?
Right?
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