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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:39 PM Nov 2015

When the GOP candidates claim that raising the minimum wage...

...will destroy jobs I wish that once, just once, a moderator or reporter would ask them to site at which time in history this has been the case.
Where, in all the historical times we've raised the minimum wage, has there been job loss?

I won't hold my breath.

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When the GOP candidates claim that raising the minimum wage... (Original Post) SHRED Nov 2015 OP
Repub moderators will never ask that. HughBeaumont Nov 2015 #1
People who spout this line of B.S. Wellstone ruled Nov 2015 #2
if we're lucky, the Democratic candidate will call out their BS in the general 0rganism Nov 2015 #3

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
1. Repub moderators will never ask that.
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 01:43 PM
Nov 2015

When you have a slew of people and candidates thinking right-wing shithouses like CNBC and Faux Business are somehow "liberal media", we just crossed into the pit of cognitive dissonance.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. People who spout this line of B.S.
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 02:06 PM
Nov 2015

are generally Management types or persons who were brain washed in some management training class. As we know,the facts speak truth,and there again,there are real facts and talking point facts(B.S.).

0rganism

(23,955 posts)
3. if we're lucky, the Democratic candidate will call out their BS in the general
Mon Nov 16, 2015, 02:30 PM
Nov 2015

because the moderators never will, especially the ones selected for the republican primary.

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