Rashida Tlaib pushes for $20 an hour

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  1. APACHERAT

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    When the radical "New Left" hijacked the Democratic party during the early 1970's many of the liberal base of the Democratic party fled the party and were welcomed by the GOP to continue the fight of winning the Cold War.

    These liberals were known as neoconservatives, patriotic liberal Democrats.
     
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    It will certainly speed it up.
     
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    Nevertheless, Andy, Tlaib DID call for a twenty buck-an-hour minimum wage. She DID that... and there's no use in your denying it.
    Here is one verifiable link from a dependable source, and there are at least a half dozen others: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...laib-minimum-wage-should-be-20-an-hour-not-15

    You can try to cover it up by calling it "RW Manufactured Outrage" if that amuses you, but truth is TRUTH....

    [​IMG]. "The bid is now twenty bucks -- do I hear thirty...?!" :bonk:
     
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    Let's change all the scales that measure things to ensure that no one lacks the things being measured.

    It's not fair that some people are not intelligent enough to live without support. Let's change the IQ scale to increase the minimum amount of intelligence to ensure that everyone can be self reliant.

    It's not fair that some people are not tall enough to reach the top shelves at the super market. Let's change the scale that measures height to ensure that the shortest person can be self reliant.

    It's not fair that some people have health problems due to their weight. Let's change the scale that measures weight to ensure that people of all weights can be self reliant.

    It's not fair that some people are not old enough to perform tasks that the rest of society can perform. Let's change the scale that measures age to ensure that age no longer prevents people from being self reliant.

    It's not fair that some people have two legs while others have none. Let's change the scale that measures legs to ensure....
     
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    Useful idiots.
     
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    Trump lied to his base to get votes and they gladly bought into it. What a "genius."
     
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    Trump is a useful idiot? Go figure.
     
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    Trump can do things by himself. At least that's what he said. Did his pen ran out of ink?? ;)
     
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    A real progressive would advocate $25 an hour.
     
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    Trump's DOJ did just order El Chapo to forfeit $12. 6 billion. Has Pelosi come up with a plan to prevent Trump from repurposing those funds for construction yet?
     
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    The Soviet Union said the useful idiots of the Kremlin were the SDS, the anti war protesters, MLK and the "New Left" who hijacked the Democratic party.
     
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    Well, the neo-cons are idiots. Calling them useful idiots is just me trying to be nice. ;-)

    Could never find a quote from the Sovs calling liberals "useful idiots". Lenin did call most socialists corrupt "opportunists".
     
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    That's just more obvious partisan nonsense.
    Thanks to Mueller and the Deep State we now know for a fact that Trump is almost certainly the most honest politician in Washington. Isn't that great! ;-)
     
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    2 decades ago it was insane to think that the minimum wage would be higher than $10/hr. Now the House just passed a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15/hr. It will no doubt bomb before the Senate and Trump...but if it passed once...whats going to happen when Dems control both the Congress and the WH again? (and don't anyone fool themselves into thinking it won't happen). The $15/hr min wage increase will happen. Don't discount it just because you're trying to minimize what the RW says due to some partisan rose colored glasses.

    Mind you, I'm all for responsibly increasing the minimum wage. But this is nutz.
     
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    No one blames Trump for anything the DP House or DP scofflaw judges block. That is why the thinking Left admits that Trump will win again in 2020 - thanks to the blind partisan hate coming out of the irrational extremist left wing of the DP.

    "I’m struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, “Trump’s going to get re-elected, isn’t he?” And in each case, when I drilled down to ask why, I bumped into the Democratic presidential debates in June. I think a lot of Americans were shocked by some of the things they heard there. I was."

    "I was shocked that so many were ready to decriminalize illegal entry into our country. I think people should have to ring the doorbell before they enter my house or my country."

    I was shocked at all those hands raised in support of providing comprehensive health coverage to undocumented immigrants. I think promises we’ve made to our fellow Americans should take priority, like to veterans in need of better health care.

    And I was shocked by how feeble was front-runner Joe Biden’s response to the attack from Kamala Harris — and to the more extreme ideas promoted by those to his left."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES, ‘Trump’s Going to Get Re-elected, Isn’t He?’, Voters have reason to worry., By Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Columnist, July 16, 2019.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/trump-2020.html?module=inline
     
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    And wait until those 'useful idiots' get their $20 an hour -- and then see that inflation skyrockets so badly that the price of everything has gone up 200% - 400%. Then, after the 'dust settles', the bottom-feeders will be right back where they started in terms of how much money everything costs.

    They will never (NEVER) grasp the concept that you are only worth what you are worth in an open, free, labor market! Taking some unskilled, uneducated schlump making $7 an hour and giving him $20 an hour won't do ANYTHING but cause the prices of EVERYTHING to shoot straight up!

    Oh, it will do one other thing -- it will get pandering Democrats elected to government positions, and, it will cause economies to buckle and decay.
     
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    Did you complain when Big Mac prices rose from a 2009 price of $3.57 to today's price of $6.25 and no increase in wages from the min wage law?
     
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    Talk about a shake the head moment. You do realize that those "slacker slobs" do the jobs that you find beneath you right? That if those jobs were not done by those people then society as we know it would grind to a halt? Tell me, who's going to serve you in the restaurants that you like to frequent? Who's going to pick up your trash 1-2 times a week? Who's going to sell you those items that you buy in any store out there? And if you think that those people are "idle" then you're so far out of touch with reality that you might as well be in the unicorn level of Diablo III.
     
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    Trump has not received a dime and will never see a dime of a so called 12 billion dollar empire it's already gone......
     
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    Your reply does not seem to relate to anything from my post.
     
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    Prediction based on what? Mexico's president saying El Chapo's being punished to harshly? 'Cause that's what he's saying.
     
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    Getting restitution has nothing to do with the president of the US since the money is already gone..
     
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    You can find it here -> https://www.academia.edu/14476256/P...NTELLIGENCE_APPARATUS_1954-1973_-_AN_ANALYSIS
    Among the groups targeted by the Soviets in the United States and Canada was the Viet Nam Veterans Against The War (VVAW) which was the subject of numerous FBI and CIA investigations for plots against US leaders.
    Many of those organizations received (in total) more than $100 million from USSR.

    [​IMG]
    Members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) blocking access to a university hallway.
     
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