Mitt admitted last night the jobs he created weren't living wage

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.emptywheel.net/2012/08/31/the-quarter-billionaires-9-jobs/

Posted on August 31, 2012 by emptywheel

Fairly early in Mitt’s speech last night he said this:

But today, four years from the excitement of the last election, for the first time, the majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.

It is not what we were promised.

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It’s not just what we wanted. It’s not just what we expected.

It’s what Americans deserved.

You deserved it because during these years, you worked harder than ever before. You deserved it because when it cost more to fill up your car, you cut out movie nights and put in longer hours. Or when you lost that job that paid $22.50 an hour with benefits, you took two jobs at 9 bucks an hour and fewer benefits. You did it because your family depended on you. You did it because you’re an American and you don’t quit. You did it because it was what you had to do.

But driving home late from that second job, or standing there watching the gas pump hit 50 dollars and still going, when the realtor told you that to sell your house you’d have to take a big loss, in those moments you knew that this just wasn’t right.

FULL story at link.

[onethatcares]

1. hell, he forced working folks to accept

nothing.

when bain bought out companies aside from a few lucky ones the rest of the workforce was sent packing.

first thing to go was the promised healthcare and pensions, can't sell a company with those albatrosses around

it's neck. Then the workers found out how great the unemployment system is.

fuck mitt and the horse his wife rode in on. (yeah, I really do feel that way)

I can't bring myself to trust overlyclean white guys in suits.

[sad sally]

2. And nowhere in that sorry speech of his did he say that he would support, help enact or enforce any

efforts to raise the wages of working people.