It's just a number, right, Hillary?

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...bullshit. It's the difference between food and medicine; utilities or shelter; gas or a replacement pair of shoes or clothing to replace the worn, hole-filled ones.

— Fresh off a meeting with national labor leaders, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday spoke favorably about legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, tacitly dismissing proposals by her two leading Democratic competitors who have called for a bigger increase.

Speaking with reporters, Mrs. Clinton singled out legislation proposed by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, that would establish a $12-an-hour minimum nationwide.

As she has in the past, Mrs. Clinton did not explicitly offer a figure she would like to see adopted, but implied that certain measures, like Ms. Murray’s, were more realistic than others: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, Mrs. Clinton’s rivals in the Democratic field, both support raising the minimum to $15 an hour.

“Let’s not just do it for the sake of having a higher number out there,” she said. “But let’s get behind a proposal that actually has a chance of succeeding.”

This is the problem with the millionaire class of legislators in Washington - higher wages for workers in America are just an abstraction to them; just a number. For workers, however, higher wages are a reality of sustenance and survival. Hard for someone who drops hundreds of dollars on a haircut, perhaps, to understand. If that seems like a cheap shot, that's just tough. Quibbling and hedging over a higher minimum wage for the millions who rely on that income to survive is a slap in the face of the working-class from elitists grown too accustomed to fattening their already swollen bank accounts from feeding off the public and corporate dole.

Disgusting. Get off of your privileged perch. Stand up and fight for us.