Obama pushes 'raise' for America during U-M speech on minimum wage

[alp227]

Source: Detroit Free Press

President Barack Obama urged support of his plan to raise the national minimum wage to help Americans out of poverty in a speech at the University of Michigan this afternoon.

The address, which also included a handful of quips about the Wolverines basketball, highlighted the importance of increasing the hourly rate to $10.10 to extend the American dream to more Americans.

“You can give America the shaft or you can give America a raise,” Obama said.

An estimated 1,400 filled half of the gymnasium in the U-M Intramural Sports Building. Behind the president was a giant American flag, “Michigan” painted in maize and blue on the brick wall and several dozen U-M students, many of them in school sweatshirts and T-shirts.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20140402/NEWS/304020097/obama-ann-arbor-minimum-wage

[Rod Beauvex]

1. Why is he only psuhing for $10.10?

$10.10 might have been nice a few years ago, but not today.

[Cha]

4. Because that is more reachable with the assholes dead enders in Congress.

[alp227]

6. Obama plays too nice with the right wingers controlling Congress.

The stimulus should have been bigger, but Obama thought he could get Rethug votes for the stimulus with a slightly lesser amount. They never came.

And Obama doesn't want to play in the right wingers' hands by confirming their belief "Why $10? Why not $20, $50, etc."?

[geretogo]

2. The chance of passing ZERO. The GOP needs more poverty and a depressed economy under Obama to take

the Senate with the help of voter suppression in 2014 . Traitors all of them .

[Iliyah]

3. Connecticut has and other states to follows!

Its a start, hopefully when more states comply then minimum wage will increase.

[Cha]

5. Yes, other states will follow!

[sheshe2]

7. It needs to happen, Cha.

It's a start even though we all know it's not enough.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, It Is A Start.. And, who knows what we could Accomplish with a 2014

Congressional WIN.. Senate TOO!

Mahalo she~

[sheshe2]

10. GOTV 2014!

~And beyond!

[Cha]

11. Way BEYOND..

Those sociopathic deadender Neanderthals are scary as shite.!

F'Real!

[sheshe2]

12. Beyond~

[Cha]

13. Precisely!

Mahalo, she~

[sheshe2]

8. Kick!