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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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6. I don't know which candidate it was, but MSNBC was showing a clip of one of them as I was

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 09:09 AM

Nov 2015

herding the dogs back into the house, and I heard some Republican say 'If I really believed that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help the American people, I'd be for it.' (slight paraphrase, I didn't write this comment immediately.)

The 'best' way? You're only going to support 'the best way'? What's wrong with simply supporting a minimum wage hike because it WILL help poor folks, even if it's not 'the best way', whatever the heck you think that is? Go ahead and do it, even while you're still working on 'the best way'.

People toss around that 'good being the enemy of the perfect' line all the time, but here's one of the few places I think it's really applicable. If it's not 'the best way' to help people, Republican candidates say they won't support it.

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