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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Sat Feb 16, 2013, 09:26 PM Feb 2013

OOPS: GOP Rep. Inadvertently Makes The Case For Nearly Doubling The Minimum Wage

OOPS: GOP Rep. Inadvertently Makes The Case For Nearly Doubling The Minimum Wage
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/02/14/1596051/blackburn-minimum-wage-oops/

A stronger minimum wage, Blackburn said, would negatively affect the ability of young workers to enter the workforce as teenagers, and would prevent them from learning responsibility like she did when she was a teenage retail employee making a seemingly-measly $2.15 an hour in Mississippi:

... At that time, the minimum wage was $1.60, equivalent to $10.56 in today’s terms. Today’s minimum wage is equivalent to just $1.10 an hour in 1968 dollars, meaning the teenage Blackburn managed to enter the workforce making almost double the wage she now says is keeping teenagers out of the workforce.

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OOPS: GOP Rep. Inadvertently Makes The Case For Nearly Doubling The Minimum Wage (Original Post) Coyotl Feb 2013 OP

Same old tired talkingpoints Kingofalldems Feb 2013 #1

Now you have confused her Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #2

^^^ THIS ^^^ Coyotl Feb 2013 #3

I will give you another one exboyfil Feb 2013 #4

That's a good perspective for a student to understand. Coyotl Feb 2013 #5

+100,000 winstars Feb 2013 #6

And don't conservatives, especially the old ones Mariana Feb 2013 #7

Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

1. Same old tired talkingpoints

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Sat Feb 16, 2013, 09:30 PM

Feb 2013

wouldn't be surprised if she was lying about the whole thing anyway.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

2. Now you have confused her

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Sat Feb 16, 2013, 09:36 PM

Feb 2013

she will have to go back and find out what she should have said

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

3. ^^^ THIS ^^^

Reply to Angry Dragon (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 16, 2013, 09:51 PM

Feb 2013

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

4. I will give you another one

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Sat Feb 16, 2013, 11:38 PM

Feb 2013

Tuition in 1960 to the University of Georgia was $195/yr (minimum wage was $1/hr) so without taxes, which are higher now on that minimum wage because of the S.S. increase, you would have to work 195 hours at minimum wage for a year's tuition (5 weeks full time). Now you tuition is about $10,000/yr (1380 hours working at the federal minimum wage or 35 weeks full time).

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

5. That's a good perspective for a student to understand.

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 02:14 AM

Feb 2013

People are really getting screwed today compared to the past.

winstars

(4,220 posts)

6. +100,000

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 02:36 AM

Feb 2013

Mariana

(14,858 posts)

7. And don't conservatives, especially the old ones

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:45 AM

Feb 2013

LOVE to go on about how THEY did it all themselves, put themselves through school working summers, went out on their own right out of high school, bought a house when they were 23, supported eight kids on one income, etc. etc. etc. and dammit, what's wrong with these lazy-ass young people that they can't do the same things today?

Younger conservatives, on the other hand, are usually just plain full of shit when they claim to have done it all via bootstraps and hard work. EVERY one I have ever known got plenty of help to get started.

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