Ending Minimum Wage Worse Than Ethnic Cleansing?
Congressman Major Owens (D-NY) "might have set a new low for demagoguery,"
says the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The moment came during an April 22 congressional hearing on increasing the
minimum wage. Congressman Owens declared: "The only thing we can do in
America that is worse than ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia is to abolish the
minimum wage."
The chairman of the committee pointed out, in graphic terms, what "ethnic
cleansing" has meant to citizens in Kosovo and Tibet, and then gave Rep.
Owens a chance to withdraw his remarks, saying, "I think we can all agree
that if you're being ethnically cleansed, there is nothing worse than that."
"That's *your* opinion!" Rep. Owens shot back.
(Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute newsletter, "CEI UpDate")
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