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VMA131Marine

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15. $2 an hour in 1970

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 08:43 PM

Jun 2014

is $12.22 in 2014 dollars. This is significantly more that the President's proposed hike to $10.10 an hour and i'd bet that by the time the full $15/hour takes effect in Seattle it won't be worth much more than $2/hour was in 1970.

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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

He'd just bitterly complain about librul socialists taking what he worked so hard for. Boomerproud Jun 2014 #14

Even in good economic times, when people have more options, this would be a spurious argument. nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #5

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

I don't even have words. These people are so stupid. Maybe they could use a few years of poverty jwirr Jun 2014 #8

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