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Two Guys on the Minimum Wage |
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Today, Joe and Jim are at the Transport Workers (TWU) union hall in Philadelphia, where they’re wondering how workers can survive on the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour—a wage the Republican-led Congress repeatedly refused to raise over the past 10 years, despite giving itself nine pay increases totaling more than $30,000 in that same time frame.
Says Jim:
Minimum wage in this country is $5.15 an hour. So you figure a guy all day long couldn’t fill his tank on what he makes all day….
Adds Joe:
Couldn’t fill his tank, couldn’t feed his family.
Worse, says Jim:
Then they look you straight in the face and say, “Why do you need a raise?”
The two guys have shared their thoughts with us all week on the economy, the nation’s crumbling health care system and excessive CEO pay—and pondered a question for which the answer is less than nothing: What has Bush done for working people?
As Jim says:
I’d like to see what it takes to heat the White House for one day. Let George live on $5.15 an hour and see what happens.
Stop back to see Joe and Jim take it to the street with a cardboard figure of the president, as they ask people what they’d say to George Bush if they had a chance.
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