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house republicans on friday
unanimously voted down a bill that would raise the minimum wage
and six democrats joined them in defeating the effort
now unfortunately the article i read did not list the six democrats by name i
wish they did
uh... and i try to look for elsewhere i couldn't find it
if i do find it you betcha wrestle be remains on this program so you know who
not to support
uh... this is what i love you know the the so called blue
blue dog democrat
they might as well just at switch over to being republic
because they are republicans
a blue dog democrat means are a democrat from an area that's largely conservative
in their like old school dixiecrats not democrats
yet just gives us give all the pretense in the foreplay to become a republic
you make me sick
the volcano
after a surprise move by the democrats tacked onto a jobs training program bill
an amendment that would have brought the national seven dollars and twenty five
cents minimum wage to ten dollars and ten cents by two thousand fifteen
but republicans managed to defeat the effort while approving the rest of the
bill overall
i love that they go all you know that one part that actually is really going
to help the working poor class in the country
yes right at that
these guys had knows souls no morality no ethics
they're just there there are holy boykin there's no pretense of even caring about
the american people anymore
so few weeks back house minority nancy pelosi
came out in support of raising the minimum wage
and in president obama's day the union address if you guys remember he called
for a wage increase
now policies effort in the upper post friday would actually brought the
minimum wage hiring a little bomber proposed a bomber propose nine dollars
the policy
and the democrats said it knowledge to ten dollars and ten cents an hour
now i love this businesses again but it shows you
the way our politics works
so you have a bomb a saint
a little bit blows he said i will go a little bit more you know the actual
number is that we would need for a living wage
so the people who
work actually live above the poverty line
twelve dollars and fifty cents but no no no that's going way too far cartoon
route
are interested actually caring about people's lives out there you
uh... is the minimum wage war brought up to ten dollars and ten cents an hour
he would not be a revolutionary height rather it would be indexed to inflation
and consistent
with historical borrowing power
how the minimum wage been indexed to inflation in nineteen sixty eight
today the minimum wage will be ten dollars spent forty cents
so we are struggling just to get the minimum wage
up to the purchasing power that we had in nineteen sixty eight
and in fact
even if we do get a minimum wage hike through
it wouldn't be enough to reach that level
god that's so sad man
that is so said
so that when you look at the poll numbers about how the american people
feel well obviously since our government is a representative democracy from the
republicans voting it down there or just you know voting the will of the majority
right that's our government work so they sent a look or standing up for the
american people
well that's interesting
ninety one percent of democrats say raise the minimum wage sixty eight
percent of independence series the minimum wage
fifty percent com republicans c raise the minimum wage
and by the way it's forty eight percent war against it
so more say raise it been then dot
so overall it's a total of seventy one percent of the american people who wanna
raising
this is an open question this is an open debate
but that's what did he ever thought side of the political i liked to insist upon
they like to be the terry party and the fascism party and the dictatorship party
and they say no no no we don't care what will the majority is
we are elected and we know the actresses of what our constituents want
because they are wholly more known by corporate america and they do the
bidding of the big businesses
there is no pretense anymore of caring about the american people
they simply don't care
and then come election time
the democrats and the republicans all the sudden will pretend to be more
progressive and we'll pretend to be men of the people
and populists
god it is such sick sick games being played honest men