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diehardblue

(11,001 posts) Sat Feb 27, 2021, 03:00 PM Feb 2021

Ted Kennedy speaks on the minimum wage!

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Ted Kennedy speaks on the minimum wage! (Original Post) diehardblue Feb 2021 OP

Ted left us way too soon Polybius Feb 2021 #1

This is one of my all time favorite speeches. What an orator. Peregrine Took Feb 2021 #2

Wonderful speech. It's so sad that it is still applicable today. nt crickets Feb 2021 #3

Minimum wage is the modern capitalist enslavement RANDYWILDMAN Feb 2021 #4

Polybius

(15,364 posts)

1. Ted left us way too soon

Reply to diehardblue (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 03:11 PM

Feb 2021

I miss him.

Peregrine Took

(7,412 posts)

2. This is one of my all time favorite speeches. What an orator.

Reply to diehardblue (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 03:33 PM

Feb 2021

Speaking off the cuff and with passion and power is so critical to advancing your cause yet so many now eschew this manner of speaking in favor of a style more sedate and lawyerly.

Even reading their speech - the worst ever if you ask me!
Look at your audience - not at your notes!!

Speak right from your heart with conviction.

That would be my advice to anyone promoting an issue.

crickets

(25,959 posts)

3. Wonderful speech. It's so sad that it is still applicable today. nt

Reply to diehardblue (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 05:30 PM

Feb 2021

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,667 posts)

4. Minimum wage is the modern capitalist enslavement

Reply to diehardblue (Original post)

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 05:55 PM

Feb 2021

People are not tied to the these jobs but they don't have a ton of choices of where else to go.

It's so sad that we won't pay a livable wage ?

We have yet to see a maximum wage for CEO's and traders and like ?

Minimum worth is disgusting term to value a person's worth !!!!

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