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To: davikkm
"Trump has done far more in one year to truly help black Americans than Obama did in eight years."

Obama never intended to do anything for Black Americans but allow them to blame someone else for their situation and life.

4 posted on 04/28/2018 11:53:13 AM PDT by wmileo
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To: wmileo
Obama never intended to do anything for Black Americans but allow them to blame someone else for their situation and life.
That is, to make them ungrateful and thus unhappy. He succeeded, and thus made everyone else unhappy and thus ungrateful.

Bernie Sanders wants to make everyone (whether they bey teenagers or whether they be otherwise very poorly qualified) ungrateful for a low wage job. If anyone can expect $15/hour, unconditionally as a right, who will actually work for $15/hour??? Who will even show up for that???

My father was a diligent worker who held a job (and for a while two full-time factory jobs all his adult life. He didn’t have a college degree, but he did have some college education, and both his parents were teachers (and thus spoke good english effortlessly, and raised their children to do likewise. Both his sons earned engineering degrees; it was expected). The point? In 1950 he made about $5,000 dollars a year. $100 a week. $100 divided by 40 hours = $2.50/hr. No one would have hired him for $15/hour; if they had he would have taken it in a heartbeat.

The point is, of course, that $2.50/hr in 1950 translates, in 2018, to roughly $25/hr, and probably more. There has been that much inflation during my lifetime - a great deal of it during the Carter Administration. And Bernie Sanders - and universal $15/hr no-show “jobs” for North Americans and South Americans - would repeat that performance.


21 posted on 04/29/2018 5:15:45 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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