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liberal_at_heart

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3. oh, I have no doubt business leaders will get together with the government and negotiate out a

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:14 PM

Sep 2014

small minimum wage hike, but it won't be anywhere near what we need. Seattle just passed a $15/hr minimum wage but to live anywhere on the west coast you need to be making more like $25/hour. Democrats wage the banner of bipartisanship so they can claim we are making progress while they agree to spend trillions on war and agree to cut billions on social programs.

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Minimum Wage Hike Has Strong Support Among Employers, Survey Finds [View all] applegrove Sep 2014 OP

The money I could have saved on this survey yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #1

But someone got paid to conduct it FrodosPet Sep 2014 #2

Bam!!! You got he right in the gut! yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #4

oh, I have no doubt business leaders will get together with the government and negotiate out a liberal_at_heart Sep 2014 #3