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2014 May 1, 1:06am
Something like 60% of these minimum wage jobs that would be lost due to minimum wage increase are jobs held by women. Do the Democrats hate women now too?
zzyzzx
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2014 May 1, 1:08am
The federal government established a minimum wage in a 1938 law called the Fair Labor Standards Act, which also marked the first time that employers were legally required to pay workers overtime for certain jobs. At the time the law passed, the country’s first minimum wage was $0.25 per hour (about $4 in 2012 dollars).
zzyzzx
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2014 May 1, 1:15am
I also want Democrats to explain why we even need a federal minimum wage when something like 46 states already have them. I don't understand this fascination that they have with redundant laws. Shouldn't this be set at the state level, since things like the cost of living varies quite a bit from state to state?
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So yesterday basically looked like a total repeat of what the GOP seems to do over and over again: Vote against legislation that in turn are things that the very demographic they need in order to win are all for. This time its the minimum wage.
In one way I wasn't surprised. The GOP's seemingly blind and inexhaustible appetite to be against most any sort of legislation that serves to benefit the working, middle class , and young fits right in to this latest debate. On the other I couldn't help but wonder if anyone in their party had stopped and thought about what their vote meant for at least 5 seconds.
Think about it: The GOP has even said that a large percentage of those who work in minimum wage jobs are younger, in high school or college or whatnot. I'm not sure that's exactly true, albeit there are many from that age bracket who certainly do. But even if it were, that segment of the population is a very large piece of the demographic the party has failed to attract- in part due to their prior decisions which are equally distasteful to that age group. So in voting against this law they simply helped the Democrats even more by showing younger folks that yup- come 2016 theirs is once again not the party to vote for.
In the end its sort of sad. You would think that after 2 Presidential elections where they lost- the last one with the GOP even saying that they needed to reach out beyond the base- that the message would be loud and clear. Yet all has been forgotten and its back to business as usual with the GOP on the road to their 3rd defeat.
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