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It's the slave wages stupid. NOT the unemployment benefits. (Original Post) onecaliberal May 2021 OP
I know everyone wants $15 an hour.... TheRealNorth May 2021 #1
Maybe we could I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #6
It's no child care options. Mme. Defarge May 2021 #2
+1, watch the UE rate go down this summer seeing school doesn't end till end of May uponit7771 May 2021 #5
You know it, I know it, even the lying-ass Republicans know it. 11 Bravo May 2021 #3
It's a passive aggressive General Strike for $15 JCMach1 May 2021 #4
They think people are stupid. The tax increase for the wealthy is also polling high. onecaliberal May 2021 #7

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
1. I know everyone wants $15 an hour....
Mon May 10, 2021, 05:22 PM
May 2021

But let's put Sinema, Manchin, and Republicans to the test to see if they would even vote for $11 or $12 an hour.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)
6. Maybe we could
Mon May 10, 2021, 07:06 PM
May 2021

Challenge Manchin and Sinema to a dare.

Challenge them live on minimum wage. For two weeks.

Take out the money that goes already to rent and bills.
Take out the parts for medicine, insurance car insurance etc.

Make him survive on what's left for two weeks,I'd prefer 6 months...but that's just me. Two weeks.

And make him find a way to make those piddling dollars stretch.

Bet he'd chicken out before he even started and so would Sinema.


Then we can say you think minimum wage is ok for others yet you are too chicken shit to even try it for two little weeks . Wtf. Cowards like you two need to stfu and vote for wage increases with Biden.

And he could be shamed in perpetually for that.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
3. You know it, I know it, even the lying-ass Republicans know it.
Mon May 10, 2021, 06:12 PM
May 2021

The difference is that we care. They don't.

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