Secret diplomatic cables unveiled by Wikileaks showed that the Obama Administration pressured poor, blighted Haiti to rescind a law raising its minimum wage to 61 cents per hour.
Haiti had passed the law in 2009 raising it from 24 cents an hour. This outraged contractors for clothing companies who appealed to Obama who twisted arms to cut the minimum wage hike to 7 cents bringing it to 31 cents an hour.
There are moral and reasonable arguments against the minimum wage but Obama and his supporters reject them out of hand. Regardless, there is nothing moral about exploitation or enforced penury and hopelessness, which is what these clothing companies are doing and for what Obama signed on to.
The extreme left The Nation broke the story but quickly pulled it. The spiking of the of the story is the subject of this article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
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And then there is the matter off Harrison J. Bounel. This story goes that a debt collector named Al was chasing a client in Chicago and found that a Harrison J. Bounel happened to be listed as resident of the Obama home at 5046 S. Greenwood Ave. and shared the President’s Social Security number.
Regardless of the reliability of the claim, the issue has become fodder on the web with the name drawing 173,000 Yahoo hits and spawning a popular satirical Facebook page.
And if Mr. Bounel was connected to a particular address in Wasilia, Alaska one would have been far more likely to have heard of him, regardless of the reliability of the claim.
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And then there is the matter of Huma Abedin, the wife of former Congressman Anthony Weiner and deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Walid Shoebat is reporting on PajamasMedia.Com that Mrs. Weiner’s mom is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ladies auxiliary and that her brother is a partner with members of the group.
Granted family connections don’t automatically translate to shared values and goals — which is something that Mr. Shoebat should be the first to admit — but one would think that those connections should be well known and discussed in the public square, especially as she is deputy chief of staff to the secretary of state.
Walid Shoebat? Yep! There is such a person. I didn’t believe it so I looked it up.He was born in Beit Sahour in the occupied territory of Palestine and converted from Muslim to Christianity.He claims “Obama is definitely a Muslim. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to anyone name Walid Shoebat, however. He sounds like a candidate to be an editorial writer for the New York times.