Posted on 03/18/2013 10:06:21 AM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, suggested raising the minimum wage to $22 per hour is only logical if you look at the numbers.
“If we started in 1960, and we said [that] as productivity goes up … then the minimum wage was going to go up the same … if that were the case, the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour,” the senator said, at a recent Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on “Keeping up with a Changing Economy: Indexing the Minimum Wage.”
The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Ms. Warren wondered, in a YouTube video of the hearing posted by her staff: “What happened to the other $14.75?”
She answered her own question: “It sure didn’t go to the worker.”
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Yes. We. Are.
To the rest of the country, I sincerely apologize for my state sending this retarded mule to Congress.
It’s a trick; she’s trying to make nine bucks an hour sound really reasonable.
I’ve missed every issue so far this year. Something came up.
Thanks jazusamo.
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