She's making minimum wage and she upgraded?  AND fixed her car?

You really have to stretch things (or be really stupid) to add that to a list of her "accomplishments." I don't find signing her name to legislation anything that special.

But here's something I thought was interesting...  (We obviously know she's a Democrat).

"They didn't know if we'd get to keep any raises the employees had received; it was a big topic of discussion," she said. 'Thankfully, they let anyone who had a raise keep it -- I thought it was fair.'

Anyone who hadn't received THEIR raise... just didn't get a raise.  But she thinks it's fair for her to keep her raise.  It was just fair, right?  Instead of enjoying the fact she had gotten a little extra money for a shortwhile (while others didn't)... she thinks it's more fair for her to continually get more money than others... and no bother that they didn't get their raise.  

Sounds like the beginnings of a political career for this woman.  Can't you just see her following in Granholm's shoes?  I think they have comparable ethics, at least.

"The minimum wage raise has largely helped Otto, but she said she's noticed differences in the community -- some of which have altered her lifestyle.

"'One restaurant that I used to go to raised their prices, now I don't really go there a whole lot, it's too expensive,' she said."

Now wait a minute.  

The minimum wage increase allowed her to fix her car, and upgrade her apartment.  But she was eating out at restaurants regularly?  Minimum wage was so little, so pathetic... so unlivable... that she had to choose between Ramen Noodles and Eating at a Restaurant?  If only I could be so lucky.

Granholm's answer to this Economics 101 fact reminds us that she never took any economics courses in Harvard and if she did, she didn't pay attention very well.  Granholm claims that the minimum wage gives people more money, then they spend it, and that improves the economy.

It sounds nice, except for she completely forgets about inflation.  Sure, in the short-run people purchase more goods and services and economic activiy increases, but it's not long before the demand for those same goods and services causes the price tag to go up and the people who "got a raise" from the increased minimum wage are right back where they were to begin with.

The only real beneficiary from the minimum wage hikes is the government, who can justify taking more taxes out of people's income and collect more sales taxes from the short-run economic spending.  But everyone else gets boned, even if their union tells them they don't.

NEVER in the history of the world has increasing the minimum wage led the way to an economic recovery (I dare you to find me an example of this Dems).  Minimum wage increases HURT the economy, always have, always will.  Don't believe me?  Well, how about famed Clinton appointee and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan:

"before Bill Clinton stepped down as president, the minimum wage would see two more increases, landing at the current $5.15 in 1997, when unemployment dipped to 4.7 percent. The jobless rate would drop to a low of 3.9 percent by the time Clinton left office three years later."

Novi probably got in a lot of trouble in elementary school for not reading directions carefully.

The reasons given by Democrats pushing this through was that $5.35/hour was not a living wage.

So is $7 or $8 a living wage?  How about $9?  I read about a guy who went to Phoenix, a "Right to Work" state making $12.50/hour and he couldn't survive.