Did I get this right about the last GOP-debate?

[DetlefK]

Their new talking point is "You earn too much! Vote for me and I will change that?"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Ha. I loved what Rubio said ...something like "if I thought a raise

in minimum wage would help put more money in people's pocket, I would do it. But, it won't"

What kind of twisted logic is that?

[Hortensis]

2. I don't know, but if he is their nominee I hope his opposition

to making the minimum wage a living wage is repeated so many times he's buried with it as his epitaph. His actual, Koch-approved statement is,

"If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it's not, but it isn’t. In the 20th century, it’s a disaster.

If you raise the minimum wage, you’re going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that’s replacing jobs and people right now is only going to be accelerated.

Here’s the best way to raise wages. Make America the best place in the world to start a business or expand an existing business, tax reform and regulatory reform, bring our debt under control, fully utilize our energy resources so we can reinvigorate manufacturing, repeal and replace Obamacare, and make higher education faster and easier to access, especially vocational training."

Rubio dishonestly and callously ignores the more than a third of American workers whose personal realities will never allow allow starting a business or going to college, or in a lot of cases ever qualifying for any but low-level jobs.

In fact, increasing the minimum wage to a living wage is exactly the best and right way to make working full time the way to eliminate poverty among Americans working full time.

We're a fabulously wealthy country, and the rest (like "all this automation that’s replacing jobs and people&quot we will need to deal with in further steps. Like shortening the work day/work week if/when appropriate and putting the regulatory leash back on the Kochs' aspirations.

Of course Rubio and the Kochs, et al, disagree. It's all a profits thing. Who gets the money and who doesn't.