22nd July 2004, 12:51 PM
And the New Deal was probably the best thing that had ever happened to the American poor... which is of course why Republicans wish that it had never happened and try to restrict any attempts at modernizing such laws.
For instance, minimum wage. You can't live on $5.15 an hour! They froze the inflation adjustment some years back... I've heard that if they had kept that up it'd now be about $8.50. Kerry's plan doesn't go that far -- to $7-something in the next few years -- but it's better than nothing... much, much better. So Bush is opposed. Poor people shouldn't get chances or any semblance of fairness.
For instance, minimum wage. You can't live on $5.15 an hour! They froze the inflation adjustment some years back... I've heard that if they had kept that up it'd now be about $8.50. Kerry's plan doesn't go that far -- to $7-something in the next few years -- but it's better than nothing... much, much better. So Bush is opposed. Poor people shouldn't get chances or any semblance of fairness.
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