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To: koan who wrote (473126)

5/6/2021 3:28:41 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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"By 2029!? That is nuts! By 2029 it should probably be closer to $25 and hour."
Maybe it should be, but the chances that it will still be $7.25 are better.
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"the Democratic party has more sense, and I am sure will stick to $15!"
That's why it will still be $7.25.
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"Why don't you try a little empathy and see how that works!!"
Empathy? Like for the plight of small employers who will have to close down, and for their former employees, who are now on unemployment? The ones out of sight and out of mind, cuz they live in those stupid red states, not in mine?

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"I explained to you that in the BIG picture the majority of people and society will be better off by doing $15 now"
Those workers will be better off if we do even $1 right now. What won't help them is getting nothing because we couldn't get everything.
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"It will be a hard fight though and tough getting past the Republicans and Manchin who agree with you"
I told you before that it's not just Manchin. 7 Dems plus Angus King voted against it. What you might do is beat Manchin (and the others) in a primary, and turn his seat red.

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"I don't think the Democrats in the main are in any mood to compromise on that figure."
That's why I expect it to stay where it is.