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Trump 'open' to raising federal minimum wage in GOP agenda break
UPI ^ | 05/05/2016 | By Andrew V. Pestano

Posted on 05/05/2016 7:26:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/05/2016 7:26:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Let the conniptions begin...


2 posted on 05/05/2016 7:28:30 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Headline does not reflect what Trump said.


3 posted on 05/05/2016 7:28:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Get two jobs at $7.50 an hour each. Problem solved. Next?


4 posted on 05/05/2016 7:29:03 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Say what you will about The Donald, but he has all the right enemies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Any thing better than welfare will help out our country.

Bringing good-paying jobs back is the place to begin.


5 posted on 05/05/2016 7:29:17 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: SeekAndFind

“You can’t live on $7.25 an hour, right?”

Then you can’t live on $0.00 either, which you get more of with minimum wage.


6 posted on 05/05/2016 7:30:01 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Sacajaweau
-- Headline does not reflect what Trump said. --

And the article lies by omission too.

Smart move by Trump, takes the issue off the table and makes Hillary a liar (she said Trump wants to reduce wages).

7 posted on 05/05/2016 7:31:14 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: SeekAndFind

Hate to point it out, but he is straddling both sides of an issue again.
Raise minimum wage but not too much?
Is that the takeaway here?
Now, we ask, what is too much?
what is too little?

He didn’t need to open this can of worms.


8 posted on 05/05/2016 7:32:35 AM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s saying exactly the right thing here AFAIC. There are too many people fighting for crappy little minimum wage jobs and that’s because prior administrations have basically chased away the good paying jobs. Bringing manufacturing back will make the minimum wage debate irrelevant.


9 posted on 05/05/2016 7:33:03 AM PDT by RC one
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If that problem isn’t fixed, this country will crash and burn.


10 posted on 05/05/2016 7:34:06 AM PDT by RC one
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To: SeekAndFind

That didn’t take long.


11 posted on 05/05/2016 7:35:30 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hopefully, they will also consider raising the federal PRODUCTIVITY level to at least $15/hour at the same time.


12 posted on 05/05/2016 7:35:54 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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He’s running in the general now so he’s not going to come out and say things that Hillary will use against him. Saying he’ll look at it is not really a reversal.
at least that’s what I want to believe.


13 posted on 05/05/2016 7:39:03 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: GrouchoTex

Wolf Blitzer opened the can of worms.


14 posted on 05/05/2016 7:40:04 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SeekAndFind
"Open" to something is just Trumptalk (business-speak). No need to panic.


15 posted on 05/05/2016 7:40:25 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Sacajaweau
Headline does not reflect what Trump said.

It never does. I heard the whole interview with Wolfer yesterday where Trump was excellent, and the minimum wage issue was a quick exhange. The digging for soundbites as the headliners do, and then making YUGE news from that, will continue right into November. Lets insulate ourselves from it and READ the original sources or WATCH the entire interviews. We all know the slings and arrows that LIE ahead. (please interepret LIE in every sense of the word)
16 posted on 05/05/2016 7:40:25 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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Every time Trump says he ‘open’ to an idea, people lose their mind. He doesn’t say He WANTS to, he says he’s ‘open’ to looking at all alternatives...unlike most of the closed minds we have running this country.


17 posted on 05/05/2016 7:40:50 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I suppose running to eliminate the minimum wage would be a winning strategy!! /s


18 posted on 05/05/2016 7:41:54 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: SeekAndFind

FWIW, “Open to” in negotiations means it is not a nonnegotiable item. It doesn’t mean he wants to negotiate it away but he would if needed to get a bigger goal. It doesn’t mean he will actually give up completely, only that he will tell the other side he is open. What is that goal right now? To get elected. How to get elected? Steal votes from Democrats, namely Bernie Sanders Voters. To build the wall he needs to get elected, to get elected he needs as many of Sanders voters as he can muster.


19 posted on 05/05/2016 7:43:28 AM PDT by Raycpa
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I hate to point it out, but he is straddling both sides of an issue again.

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Exactly as he should. By not allowing himself to be pinned down he removes ammunition from the left. He did not say when and how much and in your own questions you have acknowledged the brilliance of what he said.


20 posted on 05/05/2016 7:43:48 AM PDT by billyboy15
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