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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5075)	2/29/2008 6:18:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

How did that "living wage" get calculated?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5075)	2/29/2008 10:49:08 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

OT: $52K for a family of four. That's a lot to pay a burger flipper, particularly one who isn't any good at it. "Raise the Minimum Wage: Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs. " barackobama.com It seems cynical to me to propose something that would disproportionately hurt blacks and then expect their support. Democrats have a history of using them as door mats and treating them as if they were not intelligent.