The Minnesota congresswoman told supporters at a packed sandwich shop that the corporate income tax needs to be reduced because companies are moving to other countries to save money. She was later asked by a reporter whether changes to the minimum wage should also be considered to balance the cost of labor here and overseas.
"I'm not married to anything. I'm not saying that's where I'm going to go," she said.
She did say she wants to look at all aspects of doing business, from regulations to tax codes, and will consider anything that will help create jobs. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
"I want to bring advisers in from labor and from manufacturers and from the service industry and financial services. I want to know what they know, because that's what we've been missing from President Obama. He has virtually no one in his Cabinet with private sector experience," Bachmann said. "I want to bring people who know how to create jobs into my administration."
The stop at Angie's Subs was the first in a three-day tour of Florida, a state that's hoping to play a major role in the primary. With 29 electoral votes, it also is the largest prize among the states that neither party can take for granted in the 2012 general election.
Bachmann told the crowd she knows Florida will play an important role in the election.
"We will be back here many, many, many, many, many times in Jacksonville, and we're going to be old friends and neighbors by the time this is all done," she said.
Though at one point, she forgot she was in a local sub shop while talking about helping businesses.
"Can you imagine if good businesses like Subway," she began before the crowd drowned her out shouting, "Angie's!"
She made up for it by starting a chant of "Angie's Subs!" at the end of her remarks.
While she clearly excited the crowd, Vicki Higbee, 54, of Jacksonville said she isn't completely sold on Bachmann. She said that she's committed to voting for a conservative but that she also likes Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
"I'm here to see what she has to say," said Higbee. "I love her and I love her positions, but I'm not committed. She supports a lot of the positions and values that I hold dear."
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Let me get this straight...she would consider LOWERING the United States minimum wage? $7.25 an hour translates into $1208 a month, and $14,500 a year before taxes. Take out taxes and rent and what do you have for bills and food? Nothing. Maybe she should consider having her family's business decline federal subsidies and her husbands clinic from getting medicare first. Oh wait, they can't make a profit without those government handouts? Sorry, let's take it from the poor minimum wage earners instead.
This coming from the woman who recently confused actor, John Wayne, with The Killer Clown serial murderer, John Wayne Gacy... and still insists she's a serious candidate. As Chris Wallace from Faux News so elegantly put it, "Michele Bachmann, you are a flake".
How about she try's to live on $7.25 an hour... by herself for 6 months. Give it a shot Michele, take one for the team.
I guess Americans need to learn to live without electricity, cars, education, and clean water because obviously the conservative agenda is to put them on par with places like Mauritania and Cambodia. When did the great American dream become being competitive with Third World countries? Soon they will only have the poor and the uber-rich. I've seen countries like this, and it drives people to one thing; crime.
Face it America, nothing about this woman is "balanced"...
First of all, minimum wage is not "holding back" American business. Fortune 500 and non Fortune 500 corporations alike, are making record breaking profits, and sitting on HUGE amounts of cash - so why aren't they investing? Why are they still laying people off? Why are they still shipping jobs overseas? These executives are pulling in record salaries as well... meanwhile, where are the American's jobs?
The short answer is, a GOP myth and a smoke screen for the weathy.
If if walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
It's a witch?
No...
How about trying this on for size... Bring the competition back to United States by leveling the playing field and cutting tax breaks for those who ship jobs overseas, and raising tariffs on products and services shipped here, not by lowering the already staggering low American wages. That way the 1% who are "executives" win, and the rest of American society can still earn their slave wages.
Face it, those constituents who believe that "minimum wage" is to high, have never tried to live off of it. That's one of the many problems with America. It's being ran by a bunch of wealthy clowns who have absolutely no clue what reality is. They have been blinded by their wealth and are oblivious to the problems that face 78% of their constituants. It's time for a change people! How about you try not electing anyone that has earned more than 70 grand this year.
In closing, America has behemoth problems. In eight years, the George Bush Administration invested nothing in modernization or industrial revitalization. The American people were ripped off by Wall Street money changers, to a tune of a cool 17 trillion, and left middle class holding the bag. In debt up to their eyebrows, combined with crumbling infrastructure, and that ugly sucking sound of 20 million jobs, poof-gone, forever. In addition to everything else George Bush screwed up, in that 8 years of abject stagnation, America stumbled 20 years behind. The American people need these two-faced fundamentalist Republicans to step aside, and grant them time necessary to reverse the damage they've caused, to thier nation.
Yeah, she is ridiculous. I can't stand her and you listen to her talk and it's insane. I did not know, however, that she mixed up John Wayne and John Wayne Gacy. That is atrocious. I hope John Wayne haunts her ass. Just sayin'.
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