bettershorter.com

interesting piece at the opinionjournal about raising the minimum wage.

i’ve been told by a source at better.shorter that i scared off elise and catherine in discussing the economy. i thought then, and still do now as i reread the post (better.shorter march, scroll to the “they just don’t get it” post by matt on 3/26 and read the comments)that what i said wasn’t that controversial nor inflammatory. and i am sad if i had that unintended consequence of running off two newbs.

i’ve never taking economics, but i do know that raising the minimum wage will generally have the opposite effect from that intended by its backers, and i know that there has to be some unemployment for the economy to remain strong.

additionally, the economy does seem to be better than the dems tried to lead us to believe just 3 short months ago.

btw, “compassionate conservatism” - who ever said i was compassionate?!