Does Chairman Ray Buckley Even Know He Is A Racist? - Granite Grok

Does Chairman Ray Buckley Even Know He Is A Racist?

Ray Buckley with Obama right behind him. Barry is smiling

New Hampshire Democrat chair Raymond Buckley supports raises for public union employees regardless of the state of the economy.  He has never once complained nor concerned himself (to my knowledge) about Congressional raises under Democrat majorities.  But now he is appalled at the idea that Republicans in the US Senate opposed a minimum wage increase (7 months ago) but will accept a 2800 dollar cost of living increase they could not possibly have repealed under Democrat Harry Reid.

I should point out that I don’t think anyone in congress should be getting any kind of adjustment to their compensation that is not on a steep downward slope in both pay or benefits.   In exchange for a significant and “generous reduction” I would accept a substantial decrease in hours spent in Washington DC.

As for Mr. Buckley, his new found pretend-outrage over congressional pay comes with a different cost of doing business.  It appears that he would exchange the $2800 dollar cost of living increase for votes that would actually cause financial harm and hardship to the people he claims would benefit.

Mr. Buckley’s position, and that of every Democrat who voted for a minimum wage hike or supports one, is racist, anti-poor, anti-women, anti-immigrant, but overwhelmingly favored by pro-white-supremacist eugenicists throughout history.

The inconvenient truth is that the minimum wage was designed by Mr. Buckley’s ideological ancestors to make low wage workers unemployable.

During the progressive era there was a movement among progressives to create a wage structure within the nation.  A minimum wage.  Their desire for this arbitrary sum assigned to the cost or value of labor had a very specific purpose.  They knew that by using government to make labor more expensive it would result in fewer jobs.  That it would price out unskilled labor.  That it would keep “undesirable” people (primarily immigrants and blacks) from finding employment.

The minimum wage was (and still is) a form of  social engineering seized upon by early eugenicists to deny opportunities to low and unskilled workers by making them unemployable.  If the cost was too great employers would be forced to hire only more-skilled labor at higher rates of pay; people who would deliver higher rates of productivity to match the cost of the labor and make up for the decrease in available jobs created by the minimum wage.

So regardless of Ray “you can keep your doctor keep your plan” Buckley’s stated intentions,  his support for such policies make him a racist.

(Mises.org) Frank Taussig admitted that we “have not reached the stage where we can proceed to chloroform [the unemployed] once and for all, but at least they can be segregated, shut up in refuges and asylums, and prevented from propagating their kind.”

Many leftists today deny that minimum wage laws increase unemployment among the least skilled and most disadvantaged workers. Among many early progressives, however, it was fully admitted that minimum wages cause unemployment, and this fact was to be used to effect good eugenicist social policy.

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(“Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Erain The Journal of Economic Perspectives by Thomas C. Leonard) For progressives, a legal minimum wage had the useful property of sorting the unfit, who would lose their jobs, from the deserving workers, who would retain their jobs. Royal Meeker, a Princeton economist who served as Woodrow Wilson’s U.S. Commissioner of Labor, opposed a proposal to subsidize the wages of poor workers for this reason. Meeker preferred a wage floor because it would disemploy unfit workers and thereby enable their culling from the work force. “It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work,” argued Meeker (1910, p. 554). “Better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.” A. B. Wolfe (1917, p. 278) an American progressive economist who would later become president of the AEA in 1943, also argued for the eugenic virtues of removing from employment those who “are a burden on society.”

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 (Forbes) The business-friendly National Center for Policy Analysis points out “the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, requiring ‘prevailing’ wages on federally assisted construction projects, was supported by the idea that it would keep contractors from using ‘cheap colored labor’ to underbid contractors using white labor.”

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(NYT) In South Africa the government uses wage hikes that keep the nations poor unemployed.

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 (NYP) Minimum-wage laws can even affect the level of racial discrimination. In an earlier era, when racial discrimination was both legally and socially accepted, minimum-wage laws were often used openly to price minorities out of the job market.

In 1925, a minimum-wage law was passed in the Canadian province of British Columbia, with the intent and effect of pricing Japanese immigrants out of jobs in the lumbering industry.

A Harvard professor of that era referred approvingly to Australia’s minimum wage law as a means to “protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese” who were willing to work for less.

In South Africa during the era of apartheid, white labor unions urged that a minimum-wage law be applied to all races, to keep black workers from taking jobs away from white unionized workers by working for less than the union pay scale.

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(quebecoislibre.org) Sydney Webb defined the part of the population that he saw as “problematic” as the “unemployables” and said that the capping of work hours and the minimum wage would have the social benefit of eliminating these so-called unemployables. Contrary to Marshall and Pigou, Webb actually saw disemployment as the desired effect of the minimum wage. The idea was that a high minimum wage would shield the “deserving” workers from competition by the unfit by making it illegal to work for less than a certain amount. If wage-determination was left to the market, the unfit would be able to find work, even if badly paid. Even if they were considered incapable of outdoing their superiors, they were capable of “under-living” them because of a biological predisposition.

In the United States, this was especially aimed at the black community for fear that they would be able to replace existing workers at lower prices and thus receive wages on which they could subsist. Irishmen, Asians, and Italians were also among the “unemployables” in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the Irish were the main target, especially of Sydney Webb.

Democrat Chairman Buckley’s favored wage policy has been used throughout history to deliberately reduce employment, targeting unskilled immigrants or people of color to price them out of the job market.  Given that their Social-Justice Shogun Barack Obama’s Democrat agenda has done little for employment and less for black Americans, and the sometimes-loved CBO made it clear that a minimum wage hike would cost the nation half a million jobs, why would Mr. Buckley support such an increase in unemployment unless his party had other plans?

The cynical among us might consider that the Democrat party is using policy to build an army of angry unemployable Americans (fueled by professional and media race-baiters).  That they are supplementing that group with millions of unskilled illegal immigrants, all of them reduced to fiscal slavery on the Democrat government-dependency plantation.   To what end might such a sizable force be used?

To destabilize the nation with race-riots, perhaps?

Or maybe it’s just racism.

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