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Sogo

(4,986 posts)
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 04:10 PM Feb 2022

63 years ago in 1959,

Senator Chuck Grassley began his career as a politician when he was sworn into the Iowa House of Representatives:

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.

The federal minimum wage was $1.00.

A gallon of milk cost $0.25.

A post stamp was $0.04.

And Iowans who cast their first vote for Grassley are now at least 85-years-old.

Times certainly have changed since 1959. And so has Chuck Grassley. During his 63-year-long political career, Chuck Grassley has taken millions from the NRA, Big Pharma, and special interests. He orchestrated the unprecedented blocking of a Supreme Court nomination for 293 days. And he’s falsely perpetuated the Big Lie rather than stand up for the truth and be a voice of reason.

Iowa deserves better.

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Time to put Grassley OUT TO PASTURE !!

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63 years ago in 1959, (Original Post) Sogo Feb 2022 OP
Schmuck Assley should have been put out to pasture 60 years ago. FoxNewsSucks Feb 2022 #1
That $1.00 an hour minimum wage in 1959 adjusted for inflation is Elwood P Dowd Feb 2022 #2

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
2. That $1.00 an hour minimum wage in 1959 adjusted for inflation is
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 04:27 PM
Feb 2022

equal to $10.00 an hour today. I remember making $1.60 an hour minimum wage when working my way through college around 1967-69. That would be over $13.00 today. Biden and Congress should at least kick it up to that.

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