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In reply to the discussion: Candidate Barack Obama pledged to raise the minimum wage to $9.50/hour by 2011. [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)There is no defensible reason Obama couldn't have taken exactly the same approach/SOTU/bully pulpit and pushed to raise the minimum wage (as he had PROMISED to do while campaigning) in his first year/first SOTU address. Vanilla R. doesn't dare raise the real reason O didn't do it, since it would not be considered a "good" reason by any true Democrat/progressive, and that is that raising the minimum wage would be anathema to O's corporate sponsors/puppet masters.
The maxim, words and deeds, has never been truer than with Barrack Obama. With growing public awareness of rapidly increasing wealth disparity, there may well be a ground swell demand from the voters to raise the minimum wage. The best that can be said about Obama on this issue is that he is belatedly trying to get ahead of the wave on this issue and take credit for it.
Pathetic.