It's just a number, right, Hillary?
...bullshit. It's the difference between food and medicine; utilities or shelter; gas or a replacement pair of shoes or clothing to replace the worn, hole-filled ones.
— Fresh off a meeting with national labor leaders, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday spoke favorably about legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, tacitly dismissing proposals by her two leading Democratic competitors who have called for a bigger increase.
Speaking with reporters, Mrs. Clinton singled out legislation proposed by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, that would establish a $12-an-hour minimum nationwide.
As she has in the past, Mrs. Clinton did not explicitly offer a figure she would like to see adopted, but implied that certain measures, like Ms. Murray’s, were more realistic than others: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Mrs. Clinton’s rivals in the Democratic field, both support raising the minimum to $15 an hour.
“Let’s not just do it for the sake of having a higher number out there,” she said. “But let’s get behind a proposal that actually has a chance of succeeding.”
This is the problem with the millionaire class of legislators in Washington - higher wages for workers in America are just an abstraction to them; just a number. For workers, however, higher wages are a reality of sustenance and survival. Hard for someone who drops hundreds of dollars on a haircut, perhaps, to understand. If that seems like a cheap shot, that's just tough. Quibbling and hedging over a higher minimum wage for the millions who rely on that income to survive is a slap in the face of the working-class from elitists grown too accustomed to fattening their already swollen bank accounts from feeding off the public and corporate dole.
Disgusting. Get off of your privileged perch. Stand up and fight for us.
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EVERYTHING.
There's EVERYTHING wrong with that kind of frivolous expense. Like the recently retired CEO of ATT 'only' getting $75 million bonus for retiring, and Sen. Phil Graham says he was 'exploited.'
The jerks who think it justified to pay $600 for something I have had to do for over a decade myself just to save money, then THEIR TAXES NEED TO BE AT LEAST DOUBLED so we can afford to fix the crumbling infrastructure, make tuition free at state universities and colleges.
The other thing? If some rich guy can afford $600 haircuts once a month, then he can DEFINITELY afford to have the Social Security payroll tax cap lifted SO HE PAYS HIS FAIR SHARE. This would make Social Security solvent for good, and allow its expansion for people who need it.
And what about Medicare for all Americans. There's people out there who have lost everything because they had the bad luck to get sick. HEALTH CARE IS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, and it needs to be free for everyone, like the British system. I'd MUCH rather have my tax dollars go for that than for the F35 fighter, or more wars, or more domestic spying, or more war on drugs.
We've got to get away from the primacy of shareholders and start making policies and chartering corporations that have to consider shareholders, labor, customers and the environment equally.
Well....that was quite a rant, wasn't it? 
But, you know, that's what we need to get started on a JUST society.
I mean, who among the millions of underpaid are going to support a living wage?
I mean REALLY!
Hillary, aiming kind of low, doncha think?
means absolutely nothing. I guess she thinks
the masses are too dumb to get that. 
it's absolutely reasonable for you and others to want to be paid a living wage. I'm sorry bigtree that there are those that would dismiss your plight as "noise".
