Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is ### Shocking isn't it?

Markle wrote:This only confirms what we have known for many years.  Progressives can't round up enough people who share their hate, so they resort to Capitalism and just pay them.  However, one would think that before turning them loose, they would at least tell them what and who they are protesting.

Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is



BY: Cameron Cawthorne  
January 13, 2017 5:09 pm

Protesters who support raising the minimum wage were demonstrating in Boston on Thursday against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, but they could not identify him by name.

The conservative research group America Rising Squared posted a video online Friday showing three protesters who could not identify Puzder.

“I was just wondering, do you guys know who Andy Puzder is?” the tracker asked.

One of the female protesters shook her head “no” and another female protester responded, “Nah, I don’t know who that is.” The third protester shook her head unsure of who Puzder is.

The AR Squared tracker then asked a fourth woman with pink hair and she said that she did know who Puzder is, but she never offered an explanation.

“Yes, but I can point you to someone who really knows,” the woman said.

The protesters were part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which advocates for a $15 minimum wage and has vowed to protest Puzder’s nomination for labor secretary. The group has mobilized fast-food workers nationally to protest him.

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http://freebeacon.com/issues/minimum-wage-protesters-against-puzder-nomination-dont-know-who-he-is/

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:This only confirms what we have known for many years.  Progressives can't round up enough people who share their hate, so they resort to Capitalism and just pay them.  However, one would think that before turning them loose, they would at least tell them what and who they are protesting.

Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is



BY: Cameron Cawthorne  
January 13, 2017 5:09 pm

Protesters who support raising the minimum wage were demonstrating in Boston on Thursday against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, but they could not identify him by name.

The conservative research group America Rising Squared posted a video online Friday showing three protesters who could not identify Puzder.

“I was just wondering, do you guys know who Andy Puzder is?” the tracker asked.

One of the female protesters shook her head “no” and another female protester responded, “Nah, I don’t know who that is.” The third protester shook her head unsure of who Puzder is.

The AR Squared tracker then asked a fourth woman with pink hair and she said that she did know who Puzder is, but she never offered an explanation.

“Yes, but I can point you to someone who really knows,” the woman said.

The protesters were part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which advocates for a $15 minimum wage and has vowed to protest Puzder’s nomination for labor secretary. The group has mobilized fast-food workers nationally to protest him.

###

http://freebeacon.com/issues/minimum-wage-protesters-against-puzder-nomination-dont-know-who-he-is/

Puzder is the CEO of Carl's, and Hardees.  He's against having a minimum wage, he hates unions, and is a significant proponent of exploiting American workers. Like Trump, he's also a smarmy sexist ... Read it for yourself:

"President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday chose Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that franchises the fast-food outlets Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted by the Obama administration, to be secretary of labor.

“Andy Puzder has created and boosted the careers of thousands of Americans, and his extensive record fighting for workers makes him the ideal candidate to lead the Department of Labor,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

Mr. Puzder, 66, fits the profile of some of Mr. Trump’s other domestic cabinet appointments. He is a wealthy businessman and political donor and has a long record of promoting a conservative agenda that takes aim at President Obama’s legacy. And more than the other appointments, he resembles Mr. Trump in style.

He seems to delight in bashing elites — he complained that “big corporate interests” and “globalist companies” were supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — and is prone to the occasional streak of political incorrectness.
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On policy questions, he has argued that the Obama administration’s recent rule expanding eligibility for overtime pay diminishes opportunities for workers, and that significant minimum wage increases would hurt small businesses and lead to job losses.

He has criticized paid sick leave policies of the sort recently enacted for federal contractors and strongly supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, which he says has created a “government-mandated restaurant recession” because rising premiums have left people with less money to spend dining out.

Speaking to Business Insider this year, Mr. Puzder said that increased automation could be a welcome development because machines were “always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex or race discrimination case.”

And on the political incorrectness front, Mr. Puzder’s company, CKE Restaurants, runs advertisements that frequently feature women wearing next to nothing while gesturing suggestively. “I like our ads,” he told the publication Entrepreneur. “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.”

Richard L. Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said Mr. Puzder was “a man whose business record is defined by fighting against working people.”
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As labor secretary, Mr. Puzder would oversee the federal apparatus that investigates violations of minimum wage, overtime and worker safety laws and regulations. According to a Labor Department database, many Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. stores have been investigated over the past 15 years, and some have been fined or ordered to pay back wages, though most of the cases appear to have been at stores owned and operated by franchisees, not CKE itself. Such investigations are relatively common in the fast-food industry.

Matthew Haller, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at the International Franchise Association, of which Mr. Puzder is a board member, said Mr. Puzder saw “a role for government to provide advice to employers, rather than simply deterrence by ‘gotcha’ enforcement,” an allusion to the Obama Labor Department’s enforcement of laws and regulations in the fast-food industry.

Mr. Haller and other allies of Mr. Puzder said that those who took the time to look beyond his most provocative statements would find the wisdom of a man who has toiled on labor issues for years.

“His position on the minimum wage is more nuanced than people want to give him credit for,” Mr. Haller said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s middle ground” on the overtime rule, he added. “He’s a business person, a deal maker.”

There is some evidence to support that view. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed article after his comments on automation, Mr. Puzder wrote that humans remained important “to assure smooth experiences” for customers.

In an appearance on Fox Business in May, he said that he was “not opposed to raising the minimum wage rationally; I’m opposed to raising it to the point where lower-skilled workers, working-class Americans, young people, minorities, are losing the jobs they need to get on the ladder of success.”

Though he did not explain what a “rational” increase would entail, he opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 from $7.25, where it has stood since 2009. That is far below the $15 per hour that many advocates have called for and that a variety of cities and states have enacted in recent years, albeit on a gradual timetable.

Economic research suggests that an increase to the vicinity of $10.10 per hour would have little or no effect on employment in much of the country, though the impact could be larger in low-wage, low-cost areas. Mr. Puzder has raised concerns about the effects in those regions.
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On other issues, Mr. Puzder has taken hard-line positions that leave less room for negotiation. Perhaps most prominent is the so-called joint employer doctrine that the Obama administration and its agency appointees have put forth in recent years.

Under that doctrine, large companies that have franchises or hire other companies as contractors are more likely to be held liable for violations of employment laws by those contractors or franchisees. Parent companies typically argue that they have no legal responsibility in these cases.

Mr. Puzder has been unambiguous in his disdain for the new standard. As labor secretary, there are certain immediate steps he could take to undo it, though there are some applications, like to the law governing unions, that would require action by the National Labor Relations Board or federal courts to overturn.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding Mr. Puzder is how he would be perceived as a wealthy chief executive charged with looking out for workers’ interests.

According to a 2012 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Puzder’s base salary that year was more than $1 million and his total compensation over $4 million, down from more than $10 million the year before. “Annual base salaries should be competitive and create a measure of financial security for our executive officers,” the filing said.

During the 2016 election cycle, Mr. Puzder and his wife gave more than $300,000 to Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee. But for all his populist rhetoric, his previous political contributions — as well as his positions on most business issues and regulations, and his reading habits — suggest he is more of an orthodox Republican than Mr. Trump.

Before backing Mr. Trump, he donated to the campaigns of Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, and he helped shape Mitt Romney’s economic plan in 2011. When asked to provide some insight into what Mr. Puzder was like away from the job, Mr. Haller said he was an avid reader who loved Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist.

According to a 1989 article in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mr. Puzder helped draft a Missouri law banning most abortions at public facilities and requiring doctors to test the viability of fetuses starting at 20 weeks. But according to another Post-Dispatch article, after his ex-wife accused him of domestic violence, he offered to resign from a task force convened by Gov. John Ashcroft to study a Supreme Court decision upholding the law.

Mr. Puzder, who declined to comment for this article, eventually did resign from the task force, but he denied the allegations. The Trump transition team forwarded a recent letter from his ex-wife declaring that she had been “counseled then to file an allegation of abuse.” She added, “I regretted and still regret that decision, and I withdrew those allegations.”

“You were not abusive,” she said.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:This only confirms what we have known for many years.  Progressives can't round up enough people who share their hate, so they resort to Capitalism and just pay them.  However, one would think that before turning them loose, they would at least tell them what and who they are protesting.

Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is



BY: Cameron Cawthorne  
January 13, 2017 5:09 pm

Protesters who support raising the minimum wage were demonstrating in Boston on Thursday against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, but they could not identify him by name.

The conservative research group America Rising Squared posted a video online Friday showing three protesters who could not identify Puzder.

“I was just wondering, do you guys know who Andy Puzder is?” the tracker asked.

One of the female protesters shook her head “no” and another female protester responded, “Nah, I don’t know who that is.” The third protester shook her head unsure of who Puzder is.

The AR Squared tracker then asked a fourth woman with pink hair and she said that she did know who Puzder is, but she never offered an explanation.

“Yes, but I can point you to someone who really knows,” the woman said.

The protesters were part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which advocates for a $15 minimum wage and has vowed to protest Puzder’s nomination for labor secretary. The group has mobilized fast-food workers nationally to protest him.

###

http://freebeacon.com/issues/minimum-wage-protesters-against-puzder-nomination-dont-know-who-he-is/

Puzder is the CEO of Carl's, and Hardees.  He's against having a minimum wage, he hates unions, and is a significant proponent of exploiting American workers. Like Trump, he's also a smarmy sexist ... Read it for yourself:

"President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday chose Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that franchises the fast-food outlets Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted by the Obama administration, to be secretary of labor.

“Andy Puzder has created and boosted the careers of thousands of Americans, and his extensive record fighting for workers makes him the ideal candidate to lead the Department of Labor,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

Mr. Puzder, 66, fits the profile of some of Mr. Trump’s other domestic cabinet appointments. He is a wealthy businessman and political donor and has a long record of promoting a conservative agenda that takes aim at President Obama’s legacy. And more than the other appointments, he resembles Mr. Trump in style.

He seems to delight in bashing elites — he complained that “big corporate interests” and “globalist companies” were supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — and is prone to the occasional streak of political incorrectness.
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On policy questions, he has argued that the Obama administration’s recent rule expanding eligibility for overtime pay diminishes opportunities for workers, and that significant minimum wage increases would hurt small businesses and lead to job losses.

He has criticized paid sick leave policies of the sort recently enacted for federal contractors and strongly supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, which he says has created a “government-mandated restaurant recession” because rising premiums have left people with less money to spend dining out.

Speaking to Business Insider this year, Mr. Puzder said that increased automation could be a welcome development because machines were “always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex or race discrimination case.”

And on the political incorrectness front, Mr. Puzder’s company, CKE Restaurants, runs advertisements that frequently feature women wearing next to nothing while gesturing suggestively. “I like our ads,” he told the publication Entrepreneur. “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.”

Richard L. Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said Mr. Puzder was “a man whose business record is defined by fighting against working people.”
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As labor secretary, Mr. Puzder would oversee the federal apparatus that investigates violations of minimum wage, overtime and worker safety laws and regulations. According to a Labor Department database, many Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. stores have been investigated over the past 15 years, and some have been fined or ordered to pay back wages, though most of the cases appear to have been at stores owned and operated by franchisees, not CKE itself. Such investigations are relatively common in the fast-food industry.

Matthew Haller, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at the International Franchise Association, of which Mr. Puzder is a board member, said Mr. Puzder saw “a role for government to provide advice to employers, rather than simply deterrence by ‘gotcha’ enforcement,” an allusion to the Obama Labor Department’s enforcement of laws and regulations in the fast-food industry.

Mr. Haller and other allies of Mr. Puzder said that those who took the time to look beyond his most provocative statements would find the wisdom of a man who has toiled on labor issues for years.

“His position on the minimum wage is more nuanced than people want to give him credit for,” Mr. Haller said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s middle ground” on the overtime rule, he added. “He’s a business person, a deal maker.”

There is some evidence to support that view. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed article after his comments on automation, Mr. Puzder wrote that humans remained important “to assure smooth experiences” for customers.

In an appearance on Fox Business in May, he said that he was “not opposed to raising the minimum wage rationally; I’m opposed to raising it to the point where lower-skilled workers, working-class Americans, young people, minorities, are losing the jobs they need to get on the ladder of success.”

Though he did not explain what a “rational” increase would entail, he opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 from $7.25, where it has stood since 2009. That is far below the $15 per hour that many advocates have called for and that a variety of cities and states have enacted in recent years, albeit on a gradual timetable.

Economic research suggests that an increase to the vicinity of $10.10 per hour would have little or no effect on employment in much of the country, though the impact could be larger in low-wage, low-cost areas. Mr. Puzder has raised concerns about the effects in those regions.
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On other issues, Mr. Puzder has taken hard-line positions that leave less room for negotiation. Perhaps most prominent is the so-called joint employer doctrine that the Obama administration and its agency appointees have put forth in recent years.

Under that doctrine, large companies that have franchises or hire other companies as contractors are more likely to be held liable for violations of employment laws by those contractors or franchisees. Parent companies typically argue that they have no legal responsibility in these cases.

Mr. Puzder has been unambiguous in his disdain for the new standard. As labor secretary, there are certain immediate steps he could take to undo it, though there are some applications, like to the law governing unions, that would require action by the National Labor Relations Board or federal courts to overturn.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding Mr. Puzder is how he would be perceived as a wealthy chief executive charged with looking out for workers’ interests.

According to a 2012 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Puzder’s base salary that year was more than $1 million and his total compensation over $4 million, down from more than $10 million the year before. “Annual base salaries should be competitive and create a measure of financial security for our executive officers,” the filing said.

During the 2016 election cycle, Mr. Puzder and his wife gave more than $300,000 to Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee. But for all his populist rhetoric, his previous political contributions — as well as his positions on most business issues and regulations, and his reading habits — suggest he is more of an orthodox Republican than Mr. Trump.

Before backing Mr. Trump, he donated to the campaigns of Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, and he helped shape Mitt Romney’s economic plan in 2011. When asked to provide some insight into what Mr. Puzder was like away from the job, Mr. Haller said he was an avid reader who loved Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist.

According to a 1989 article in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mr. Puzder helped draft a Missouri law banning most abortions at public facilities and requiring doctors to test the viability of fetuses starting at 20 weeks. But according to another Post-Dispatch article, after his ex-wife accused him of domestic violence, he offered to resign from a task force convened by Gov. John Ashcroft to study a Supreme Court decision upholding the law.

Mr. Puzder, who declined to comment for this article, eventually did resign from the task force, but he denied the allegations. The Trump transition team forwarded a recent letter from his ex-wife declaring that she had been “counseled then to file an allegation of abuse.” She added, “I regretted and still regret that decision, and I withdrew those allegations.”

“You were not abusive,” she said.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Wordslinger wrote:

Fact:  Puzder is against raising the minimum wage, he's against unions, he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers, and would like to do away with paying overtime.  Mr. Puzder, like the Pussy Grabber with the dead rat on his head believes its his right to exploit American workers.

Reality.

[...]

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Fact:  Puzder is against raising the minimum wage, he's against unions, he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers, and would like to do away with paying overtime.  Mr. Puzder, like the Pussy Grabber with the dead rat on his head believes its his right to exploit American workers.

Reality.

[...]

Where is your source for each of those accusations?  Especially these he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers and would like to do away with paying overtime.

Once again it seems your outrage revolves around your strong belief that people are incapable of any sort of personal responsibility and only GOVERNMENT is qualified to make those decisions.

PkrBum wrote:There's a very simple way to raise the minimum wage... education and work skills. Radical... I know.

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Fact:  Puzder is against raising the minimum wage, he's against unions, he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers, and would like to do away with paying overtime.  Mr. Puzder, like the Pussy Grabber with the dead rat on his head believes its his right to exploit American workers.

Reality.

[...]

Where is your source for each of those accusations?  Especially these he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers and would like to do away with paying overtime.

Once again it seems your outrage revolves around your strong belief that people are incapable of any sort of personal responsibility and only GOVERNMENT is qualified to make those decisions.

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:There's a very simple way to raise the minimum wage... education and work skills. Radical... I know.

Let's take one of Puzder's employees, a dishwasher at Hardees who is working for minimum wage.  One of thousands of similar workers employed at Carl's or Hardees.  The jobs their doing are currently human work situations of which robots (which Puzder favors) are not capable.  The dishwasher of this scenario is 22 and uneducated beyond high school level.  How do you propose we educate him so he would qualify for a more technically proficient job?  And, who then will wash the dishes?

Facts are, the minimum wage won't permit ANY of Puzder's employees to live above the poverty level.  And Puzder would be okay with lowering the minimum wage by doing away with it, he's already said so.  

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Right ... if they're elderly, if they're sick, if they're unemployed ... let'm beg and starve!  We get it Markle.  We get it.

PkrBum wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Right ... if they're elderly, if they're sick, if they're unemployed ... let'm beg and starve!  We get it Markle.  We get it.

Are you completely unaware as to how nature works? I think charity is a wonderful thing... but not the govt forcing citizens to redistribute their labors under the threat of confiscation and/or prison.

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Right ... if they're elderly, if they're sick, if they're unemployed ... let'm beg and starve!  We get it Markle.  We get it.

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Right ... if they're elderly, if they're sick, if they're unemployed ... let'm beg and starve!  We get it Markle.  We get it.

Are you completely unaware as to how nature works? I think charity is a wonderful thing... but not the govt forcing citizens to redistribute their labors under the threat of confiscation and/or prison.

That's one of the major differences between you and I.  You think humans are and should be treated as animals, and I think we're much better than that.
Do you claim to be a Christian, by the way?  Just what self-oriented, impassioned, selfish sect do you call yours?

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

PkrBum wrote:https://www.amren.com/news/2012/07/usda-combats-mountain-pride-self-reliance-to-boost-food-stamp-rolls/

Seeing taxpayers footing the bill so government can advertise to COME ON DOWN, GET FREE MONEY, YEP IT'S FREE MONEY.  Just a couple easy forms we'll fill out for you.

I don't know how all my grandparents migrated here and were never given FREE MONEY from other taxpayers.

Right ... if they're elderly, if they're sick, if they're unemployed ... let'm beg and starve!  We get it Markle.  We get it.

Are you completely unaware as to how nature works? I think charity is a wonderful thing... but not the govt forcing citizens to redistribute their labors under the threat of confiscation and/or prison.

That's one of the major differences between you and I.  You think humans are and should be treated as animals, and I think we're much better than that.  Do you claim to be a Christian, by the way?  Just what self-oriented, impassioned, selfish sect do you call yours?

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

PkrBum wrote:There's a very simple way to raise the minimum wage... education and work skills. Radical... I know.

Let's take one of Puzder's employees, a dishwasher at Hardees who is working for minimum wage.  One of thousands of similar workers employed at Carl's or Hardees.  The jobs their doing are currently human work situations of which robots (which Puzder favors) are not capable.  The dishwasher of this scenario is 22 and uneducated beyond high school level.  How do you propose we educate him so he would qualify for a more technically proficient job?  And, who then will wash the dishes?

Facts are, the minimum wage won't permit ANY of Puzder's employees to live above the poverty level.  And Puzder would be okay with lowering the minimum wage by doing away with it, he's already said so.  

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:This only confirms what we have known for many years.  Progressives can't round up enough people who share their hate, so they resort to Capitalism and just pay them.  However, one would think that before turning them loose, they would at least tell them what and who they are protesting.

Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is



BY: Cameron Cawthorne  
January 13, 2017 5:09 pm

Protesters who support raising the minimum wage were demonstrating in Boston on Thursday against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, but they could not identify him by name.

The conservative research group America Rising Squared posted a video online Friday showing three protesters who could not identify Puzder.

“I was just wondering, do you guys know who Andy Puzder is?” the tracker asked.

One of the female protesters shook her head “no” and another female protester responded, “Nah, I don’t know who that is.” The third protester shook her head unsure of who Puzder is.

The AR Squared tracker then asked a fourth woman with pink hair and she said that she did know who Puzder is, but she never offered an explanation.

“Yes, but I can point you to someone who really knows,” the woman said.

The protesters were part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which advocates for a $15 minimum wage and has vowed to protest Puzder’s nomination for labor secretary. The group has mobilized fast-food workers nationally to protest him.

###

http://freebeacon.com/issues/minimum-wage-protesters-against-puzder-nomination-dont-know-who-he-is/

Puzder is the CEO of Carl's, and Hardees.  He's against having a minimum wage, he hates unions, and is a significant proponent of exploiting American workers. Like Trump, he's also a smarmy sexist ... Read it for yourself:

"President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday chose Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that franchises the fast-food outlets Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted by the Obama administration, to be secretary of labor.

“Andy Puzder has created and boosted the careers of thousands of Americans, and his extensive record fighting for workers makes him the ideal candidate to lead the Department of Labor,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

Mr. Puzder, 66, fits the profile of some of Mr. Trump’s other domestic cabinet appointments. He is a wealthy businessman and political donor and has a long record of promoting a conservative agenda that takes aim at President Obama’s legacy. And more than the other appointments, he resembles Mr. Trump in style.

He seems to delight in bashing elites — he complained that “big corporate interests” and “globalist companies” were supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — and is prone to the occasional streak of political incorrectness.
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On policy questions, he has argued that the Obama administration’s recent rule expanding eligibility for overtime pay diminishes opportunities for workers, and that significant minimum wage increases would hurt small businesses and lead to job losses.

He has criticized paid sick leave policies of the sort recently enacted for federal contractors and strongly supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, which he says has created a “government-mandated restaurant recession” because rising premiums have left people with less money to spend dining out.

Speaking to Business Insider this year, Mr. Puzder said that increased automation could be a welcome development because machines were “always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex or race discrimination case.”

And on the political incorrectness front, Mr. Puzder’s company, CKE Restaurants, runs advertisements that frequently feature women wearing next to nothing while gesturing suggestively. “I like our ads,” he told the publication Entrepreneur. “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.”

Richard L. Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said Mr. Puzder was “a man whose business record is defined by fighting against working people.”
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As labor secretary, Mr. Puzder would oversee the federal apparatus that investigates violations of minimum wage, overtime and worker safety laws and regulations. According to a Labor Department database, many Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. stores have been investigated over the past 15 years, and some have been fined or ordered to pay back wages, though most of the cases appear to have been at stores owned and operated by franchisees, not CKE itself. Such investigations are relatively common in the fast-food industry.

Matthew Haller, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at the International Franchise Association, of which Mr. Puzder is a board member, said Mr. Puzder saw “a role for government to provide advice to employers, rather than simply deterrence by ‘gotcha’ enforcement,” an allusion to the Obama Labor Department’s enforcement of laws and regulations in the fast-food industry.

Mr. Haller and other allies of Mr. Puzder said that those who took the time to look beyond his most provocative statements would find the wisdom of a man who has toiled on labor issues for years.

“His position on the minimum wage is more nuanced than people want to give him credit for,” Mr. Haller said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s middle ground” on the overtime rule, he added. “He’s a business person, a deal maker.”

There is some evidence to support that view. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed article after his comments on automation, Mr. Puzder wrote that humans remained important “to assure smooth experiences” for customers.

In an appearance on Fox Business in May, he said that he was “not opposed to raising the minimum wage rationally; I’m opposed to raising it to the point where lower-skilled workers, working-class Americans, young people, minorities, are losing the jobs they need to get on the ladder of success.”

Though he did not explain what a “rational” increase would entail, he opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 from $7.25, where it has stood since 2009. That is far below the $15 per hour that many advocates have called for and that a variety of cities and states have enacted in recent years, albeit on a gradual timetable.

Economic research suggests that an increase to the vicinity of $10.10 per hour would have little or no effect on employment in much of the country, though the impact could be larger in low-wage, low-cost areas. Mr. Puzder has raised concerns about the effects in those regions.
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On other issues, Mr. Puzder has taken hard-line positions that leave less room for negotiation. Perhaps most prominent is the so-called joint employer doctrine that the Obama administration and its agency appointees have put forth in recent years.

Under that doctrine, large companies that have franchises or hire other companies as contractors are more likely to be held liable for violations of employment laws by those contractors or franchisees. Parent companies typically argue that they have no legal responsibility in these cases.

Mr. Puzder has been unambiguous in his disdain for the new standard. As labor secretary, there are certain immediate steps he could take to undo it, though there are some applications, like to the law governing unions, that would require action by the National Labor Relations Board or federal courts to overturn.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding Mr. Puzder is how he would be perceived as a wealthy chief executive charged with looking out for workers’ interests.

According to a 2012 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Puzder’s base salary that year was more than $1 million and his total compensation over $4 million, down from more than $10 million the year before. “Annual base salaries should be competitive and create a measure of financial security for our executive officers,” the filing said.

During the 2016 election cycle, Mr. Puzder and his wife gave more than $300,000 to Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee. But for all his populist rhetoric, his previous political contributions — as well as his positions on most business issues and regulations, and his reading habits — suggest he is more of an orthodox Republican than Mr. Trump.

Before backing Mr. Trump, he donated to the campaigns of Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, and he helped shape Mitt Romney’s economic plan in 2011. When asked to provide some insight into what Mr. Puzder was like away from the job, Mr. Haller said he was an avid reader who loved Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist.

According to a 1989 article in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mr. Puzder helped draft a Missouri law banning most abortions at public facilities and requiring doctors to test the viability of fetuses starting at 20 weeks. But according to another Post-Dispatch article, after his ex-wife accused him of domestic violence, he offered to resign from a task force convened by Gov. John Ashcroft to study a Supreme Court decision upholding the law.

Mr. Puzder, who declined to comment for this article, eventually did resign from the task force, but he denied the allegations. The Trump transition team forwarded a recent letter from his ex-wife declaring that she had been “counseled then to file an allegation of abuse.” She added, “I regretted and still regret that decision, and I withdrew those allegations.”

“You were not abusive,” she said.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Fact:  Puzder is against raising the minimum wage, he's against unions, he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers, and would like to do away with paying overtime.  Mr. Puzder, like the Pussy Grabber with the dead rat on his head believes its his right to exploit American workers.

Reality.

And we're all waiting for you to define the scandals that you claim make John Lewis "scandal ridden." If you don't, everyone here will know that what you said about him is just another of your many lies.    

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Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:This only confirms what we have known for many years.  Progressives can't round up enough people who share their hate, so they resort to Capitalism and just pay them.  However, one would think that before turning them loose, they would at least tell them what and who they are protesting.

Minimum Wage Protesters Against Puzder Nomination Don’t Know Who He Is



BY: Cameron Cawthorne  
January 13, 2017 5:09 pm

Protesters who support raising the minimum wage were demonstrating in Boston on Thursday against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andy Puzder, but they could not identify him by name.

The conservative research group America Rising Squared posted a video online Friday showing three protesters who could not identify Puzder.

“I was just wondering, do you guys know who Andy Puzder is?” the tracker asked.

One of the female protesters shook her head “no” and another female protester responded, “Nah, I don’t know who that is.” The third protester shook her head unsure of who Puzder is.

The AR Squared tracker then asked a fourth woman with pink hair and she said that she did know who Puzder is, but she never offered an explanation.

“Yes, but I can point you to someone who really knows,” the woman said.

The protesters were part of the “Fight for $15” movement, which advocates for a $15 minimum wage and has vowed to protest Puzder’s nomination for labor secretary. The group has mobilized fast-food workers nationally to protest him.

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Puzder is the CEO of Carl's, and Hardees.  He's against having a minimum wage, he hates unions, and is a significant proponent of exploiting American workers. Like Trump, he's also a smarmy sexist ... Read it for yourself:

"President-elect Donald J. Trump on Thursday chose Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that franchises the fast-food outlets Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted by the Obama administration, to be secretary of labor.

“Andy Puzder has created and boosted the careers of thousands of Americans, and his extensive record fighting for workers makes him the ideal candidate to lead the Department of Labor,” Mr. Trump said in a statement.

Mr. Puzder, 66, fits the profile of some of Mr. Trump’s other domestic cabinet appointments. He is a wealthy businessman and political donor and has a long record of promoting a conservative agenda that takes aim at President Obama’s legacy. And more than the other appointments, he resembles Mr. Trump in style.

He seems to delight in bashing elites — he complained that “big corporate interests” and “globalist companies” were supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential election — and is prone to the occasional streak of political incorrectness.
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On policy questions, he has argued that the Obama administration’s recent rule expanding eligibility for overtime pay diminishes opportunities for workers, and that significant minimum wage increases would hurt small businesses and lead to job losses.

He has criticized paid sick leave policies of the sort recently enacted for federal contractors and strongly supports repealing the Affordable Care Act, which he says has created a “government-mandated restaurant recession” because rising premiums have left people with less money to spend dining out.

Speaking to Business Insider this year, Mr. Puzder said that increased automation could be a welcome development because machines were “always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall or an age, sex or race discrimination case.”

And on the political incorrectness front, Mr. Puzder’s company, CKE Restaurants, runs advertisements that frequently feature women wearing next to nothing while gesturing suggestively. “I like our ads,” he told the publication Entrepreneur. “I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it’s very American.”

Richard L. Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said Mr. Puzder was “a man whose business record is defined by fighting against working people.”
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As labor secretary, Mr. Puzder would oversee the federal apparatus that investigates violations of minimum wage, overtime and worker safety laws and regulations. According to a Labor Department database, many Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. stores have been investigated over the past 15 years, and some have been fined or ordered to pay back wages, though most of the cases appear to have been at stores owned and operated by franchisees, not CKE itself. Such investigations are relatively common in the fast-food industry.

Matthew Haller, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at the International Franchise Association, of which Mr. Puzder is a board member, said Mr. Puzder saw “a role for government to provide advice to employers, rather than simply deterrence by ‘gotcha’ enforcement,” an allusion to the Obama Labor Department’s enforcement of laws and regulations in the fast-food industry.

Mr. Haller and other allies of Mr. Puzder said that those who took the time to look beyond his most provocative statements would find the wisdom of a man who has toiled on labor issues for years.

“His position on the minimum wage is more nuanced than people want to give him credit for,” Mr. Haller said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s middle ground” on the overtime rule, he added. “He’s a business person, a deal maker.”

There is some evidence to support that view. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed article after his comments on automation, Mr. Puzder wrote that humans remained important “to assure smooth experiences” for customers.

In an appearance on Fox Business in May, he said that he was “not opposed to raising the minimum wage rationally; I’m opposed to raising it to the point where lower-skilled workers, working-class Americans, young people, minorities, are losing the jobs they need to get on the ladder of success.”

Though he did not explain what a “rational” increase would entail, he opposed the Obama administration’s efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 from $7.25, where it has stood since 2009. That is far below the $15 per hour that many advocates have called for and that a variety of cities and states have enacted in recent years, albeit on a gradual timetable.

Economic research suggests that an increase to the vicinity of $10.10 per hour would have little or no effect on employment in much of the country, though the impact could be larger in low-wage, low-cost areas. Mr. Puzder has raised concerns about the effects in those regions.
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On other issues, Mr. Puzder has taken hard-line positions that leave less room for negotiation. Perhaps most prominent is the so-called joint employer doctrine that the Obama administration and its agency appointees have put forth in recent years.

Under that doctrine, large companies that have franchises or hire other companies as contractors are more likely to be held liable for violations of employment laws by those contractors or franchisees. Parent companies typically argue that they have no legal responsibility in these cases.

Mr. Puzder has been unambiguous in his disdain for the new standard. As labor secretary, there are certain immediate steps he could take to undo it, though there are some applications, like to the law governing unions, that would require action by the National Labor Relations Board or federal courts to overturn.

Perhaps the biggest question surrounding Mr. Puzder is how he would be perceived as a wealthy chief executive charged with looking out for workers’ interests.

According to a 2012 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Puzder’s base salary that year was more than $1 million and his total compensation over $4 million, down from more than $10 million the year before. “Annual base salaries should be competitive and create a measure of financial security for our executive officers,” the filing said.

During the 2016 election cycle, Mr. Puzder and his wife gave more than $300,000 to Mr. Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee. But for all his populist rhetoric, his previous political contributions — as well as his positions on most business issues and regulations, and his reading habits — suggest he is more of an orthodox Republican than Mr. Trump.

Before backing Mr. Trump, he donated to the campaigns of Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, and he helped shape Mitt Romney’s economic plan in 2011. When asked to provide some insight into what Mr. Puzder was like away from the job, Mr. Haller said he was an avid reader who loved Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist.

According to a 1989 article in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mr. Puzder helped draft a Missouri law banning most abortions at public facilities and requiring doctors to test the viability of fetuses starting at 20 weeks. But according to another Post-Dispatch article, after his ex-wife accused him of domestic violence, he offered to resign from a task force convened by Gov. John Ashcroft to study a Supreme Court decision upholding the law.

Mr. Puzder, who declined to comment for this article, eventually did resign from the task force, but he denied the allegations. The Trump transition team forwarded a recent letter from his ex-wife declaring that she had been “counseled then to file an allegation of abuse.” She added, “I regretted and still regret that decision, and I withdrew those allegations.”

“You were not abusive,” she said.

Maggie Haberman contributed reporting.

Fact:  Puzder is against raising the minimum wage, he's against unions, he's against sick leave benefits and healthcare for workers, and would like to do away with paying overtime.  Mr. Puzder, like the Pussy Grabber with the dead rat on his head believes its his right to exploit American workers.

Reality.

And we're all waiting for you to define the scandals that you claim make John Lewis "scandal ridden." If you don't, everyone here will know that what you said about him is just another of your many lies.    

I did, with three posts.

You have not.  Go figure!

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:
I did, with three posts.

You have not.  Go figure!

The disgraceful tweeting ravings of the Pussy Grabber in his ongoing attack of John Lewis, has caused the favorability rating of your smarmy hero to drop from 40 plus to under 37.  Reality.

Wordslinger wrote:CNN just announced that Trump's favorability rating has dropped to 40%.  By contrast, Obama's favorability before his first inaguration was more than 80%.  G.W. Bush's was above 60.

Trump needs to tweet insult more of his opponents ... it's good for us!