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7. I defer to FDR on this one.

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 07:37 PM

Jun 2014

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/f-d-r-makes-the-case-for-the-minimum-wage/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Pay living wages or close up shop. At one point in our history, this was the mainstream opinion, and it should be still.

-Laelth

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He should be in the first tumbrel to the good doctor's invention. hobbit709 Jun 2014 #1

Yeah... Wounded Bear Jun 2014 #2

What did he learn from poverty? Curmudgeoness Jun 2014 #3

Only time this clown worked $2 an hour... Archae Jun 2014 #9

Yeah, I worked for minimum wage when I was a teen too. Curmudgeoness Jun 2014 #13

Here is hoping this elitist asshole experiences poverty at some point liberal N proud Jun 2014 #4

Screw you Gigot, you pious self-righteous pos asshole. nt Mnemosyne Jun 2014 #6

I defer to FDR on this one. Laelth Jun 2014 #7

Yes I did more than a few facepalms after I heard that bozo say that Armstead Jun 2014 #10

Such class. Octafish Jun 2014 #11

The attitudes of capitalists and the whole rotten system itself...... socialist_n_TN Jun 2014 #12

$2 an hour in 1970 VMA131Marine Jun 2014 #15