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To: Alighieri who wrote (837644)	2/19/2015 12:40:32 PM
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>> Sure...this would have happened all on its own...without Obama campaigning for a higher min wage and highlighting stagnating wages, and a number of states following his lead to do what republicans in congress refuse to do...and now a business like Walmart admitting that it was a necessary step. Obama had nothing to do with it. At all. If you will recall, employees have protested wages at Walmart, unions have tried to attract employees, Walmart has received negative publicity and none of it had anything to do with Obama. They have been beaten up in the media for several years now over it, and they've decided the next time they give a payraise to make sure people know it. I can't blame them. But to suggest it has something to do with Obama is nonsense. Walmart is doing what it has to do to insure it has a steady stream of employees. This is how markets work, just as when Henry Ford doubled wages to make sure the assembly line kept running.