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Do the math about what a minimum wage brings in, in income. If we dont send a very clear signal that were all in this together, the character of America will change.
Hillary Clinton, 4/11/06
In the U.S. Senate
Hillary Clinton fought to tie the minimum wage to future increases in congressional salaries. Hillary Clinton repeatedly introduced the Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act to bind future salary increases for Congress to mandatory increases in the federal minimum wage. Under the provisions of the legislation, the federal minimum wage would be automatically increased by a percentage equal to the percentage by which the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such year Speaking to the importance of her bill, Senator Clinton said, We can no longer stand by and regularly give ourselves a pay increase while denying a minimum wage increase to help the more than 7 million men and women working hard across this nation. At a time when working families are struggling to put food on the table, its critically important that we here in Washington do something. If Members of Congress need an annual cost of living adjustment, then certainly the lowest-paid members of our society do too.
Hillary Clinton repeatedly introduced legislation to increase the federal minimum wage. Hillary Clintons Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006 would have increased the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over two years. Introducing her 2006 bill, Senator Clinton stated: I ask my colleagues to recognize the moral aspect of this issue. It is simply wrong to pay people a wage that they can barely live on We should raise the federal minimum wage so that working parents can lift their children out of poverty. It is past time to make this investment in our children and families. Senator Clintons Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2007 would have increased the federal minimum wage from $5.85 to $9.50 an hour.
Hillary Clinton cosponsored bills to increase the minimum wage five times and consistently voted to support it. Over the course of her time in the U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton cosponsored bills to raise the federal minimum wage in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. Senator Clinton opposed Republican efforts to weaken the minimum wage, and she repeatedlybacked Democratic efforts to raise it. Although she opposed the Iraq funding bill it was folded into, Clinton cosponsored the original version of the Fair Minimum Wage Act that increased the minimum wage for the first time in ten years, from $5.85 to $7.25 an hour. It was one of the five bills Senator Clinton cosponsored to raise the minimum wage.
As First Lady
In 1996, Hillary Clinton was a vocal supporter of successful efforts to raise the minimum wage. The San Jose Mercury News reported in 1996, The argument for increasing the minimum wage which first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed Saturday is simple and direct: The wage has not been increased since 1987 and those earning minimum wage receive no benefits or vacation. And as she wrote in It Takes a Village, released earlier that year, There are additional actions we can take, through our government, to preserve our countrys promise of opportunity for all. We can raise the minimum wage, which is nearing a forty-year low; two out of five minimum-wage earners are the sole breadwinners in their households, and many recent studies show that a modest increase does not cost jobs. In his 2007 Hillary Clinton biography A Woman in Charge, Carl Bernstein wrote that, In the ten weeks since the [1996] election, she had been working with administration officials to find ways of saving vital government services and programs that Gingrich and the Republican majority were determined to eliminate in the new session of Congress. They included legal aid for the poor, educational assistance incentives, important Medicare and Medicaid benefits, pension protection, and the minimum wage. The minimum wage was successfully increased in August of 1996.
In 1999, Hillary and Ted Kennedy worked together to push for a minimum wage increase. As she said at a White House event with Ted Kennedy in September 1999,America can afford to raise the minimum wage. The last time it was raised in 1996, 10 million Americans got a raise and the economy continued to create jobs at an unprecedented pace. Now raising the minimum wage is certainly an American issue and a human issue, but it is particularly a womans issue. It is also a childrens issue and a family issue. So I would hope that every member of Congressthe next time they visit a parent in a nursing home, sit down in a restaurant for a meal, see someone cleaning their office, or know what goes on in so many other settings where people work hard every daywould want every American to share in this kind of prosperity, and would want to raise the minimum wage. Unfortunately, their push was unsuccessful.
Today
Hillary argues that a minimum wage increase will drive our economy by closing the wage gap between men and women. At a recent speech before the United Methodist Women Assembly, Hillary Clinton made the case for an increase in the minimum wage saying, Twenty years ago, American women made 72 cents on the dollar; today, its still not equal. Women hold a majority of lower-wage jobs in our country, and nearly three-quarters of all jobs that rely on tips, like waiters, and bartenders, and hair stylists, which pay even less than the average hourly work wage. Now, holding back women is not right, but its also not smart. No country can truly thrive by denying the contributions of any of its people, let alone, half of its people But if we took a different approach, women can drive economic recovery and growth, they can lift up themselves, their families, and countries, if we ensure equal pay for equal work, if we raise the minimum wage
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Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Response to Agschmid (Original post)
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Cause nothing is better than silencing other's voices huh?
Sure makes it easier to have that echo chamber you like so much.
Wonder why Agschmid is doing this. Just to annoy people, I guess...
I'll skip the rest of his caps locked threads now.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)And we've done this before. I am Bernie supporter, I was sick of the negativity...
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It certainly looks like it.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Lol.
Bonobo
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(29,257 posts)That is why it is spam.
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(14,915 posts)Probably more than that. What makes you single this one out? What about makes it spam?
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Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)The whole forum would just be all caps hahaha
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Someone once got a OP hidden for that... (don't get any ideas people).
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)Don't post a dozen threads with all-caps titles all at once, it outs you and people add your account to their ignore list.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)about issues.
Which was obvious the whole time, since on the issues, Hillary is great.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Warpy
(111,352 posts)were that they were incremental and too small to make much of a difference for anyone working for a starvation wage.
The truly grotesque part is that Republicans and conservative Democrats wouldn't allow even such small increases.
We're long past the time when incremental change will do a damned thing for anyone.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Yeah, not surprised.
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)Not even on my radar.
Cha
(297,692 posts)story of Hillary's life in service.
Not just the negative stuff hounded over and over ad nauseam.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Although I did just have a nice conversation with one person.
Cha
(297,692 posts)when someone PMs who obviously has a bone to pick... I mean wtf business is it of theirs what I do.. keep on it the board.
Anyway, that's why you're posting all this positive Hillary stuff in the first place because of all the Negativity.
Cha
(297,692 posts)you to "go away".. speaking of "ad nauseam".
murielm99
(30,764 posts)are being accused of trash-talking Bernie. I'm just not seeing that. Instead, I am seeing nasty comments about Hillary in every positive thread about her.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)by bernie fans to cover up their incessant vicious attacks against Hillary and the President as well.
It seems they hate the Obama coalition and want to split the democratic party in two.
The republicans would love to see that as well.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)After a little digging in the archives, I realize a lot of today's most ardent Hillary fans were virulently anti-Hillary back then.
And they were viciously, incessantly going after her, apparently trying to split the party in two. Life is fickle sometimes!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Life is funny sometimes.
Cha
(297,692 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)of it.. and he's a "Bernie Supporter".
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)No air quotes required.
I'm just ticked off tonight.
Cha
(297,692 posts)Oh sorry.. I just put it in quotes because that's what you said to me. I was quoting you.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)I don't know if I updated fast enough.. but, I addressed your "air quote" thing.. it wasn't an air quote! I could take the quotes away.. you're a real Bernie Supporter!
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I was not referring to the OP. Back off.
Cha
(297,692 posts)are being accused of trash-talking Bernie. I'm just not seeing that. Instead, I am seeing nasty comments about Hillary in every positive thread about her.
and, I replied..
Meaning the OP is a Bernie supporter.. but, he wanted to post positive Hillary threads because he was tired of the "nasty comments about Hillary in every positive thread about her".
Mr. Robot
(39 posts)I'm interested in her current stances on key issues.
I'm questioning her continued silence on TPP, fracking, Keystone and many more.
Bernie has been accessible to everyone on a daily basis. Clinton is starting to act eerily similar to George W. Bush, with "handpicked" audience and "grassroots" support requiring a minimum of $1,000 to be a part of it.
What Clinton fails to recognize is that the "grassroots" that she seeks are those who are associates of rich bankers or something. Not the real and disappearing middle class. Bernie shows that he doesn't have a minimum, just your support and love. That's what I like about Bernie. He's always consistent. Hillary is drawing possibly the Democratic majority, but it is *NOT* one the largest voting bloc - it's the Independents.. Bernie is gaining a large amount of that. That is a fact. Another fact is that many disaffected and apathetic voters are perking up on the real thing, not some "focus group" handpicked, specifically for a section of a class that is rapidly shrinking but gaining too much wealth. I am talking of the 1% having the same amount of cash as ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION other Americans, I find it completely wrong.
Hillary a left liberal? I don't think so. She is a slightly right authoritarian by definition.
One must remember, that the Democratic Party has drifted to the right for the last 30 years, that anything considered "far-left" ideas are actually MAINSTREAM ideas. It's the right of center that has gone too far. I'm not attacking Clinton in any way, but just observing that that is where Hillary Clinton is really at. Her ideas may be good, but it's not the kind of ideas I want, from a candidate that 1) Failed to keep her 2008 lead and eventually lose. 2) Has drifted to the right since 1992, with her voting issues still relevant such as her Iraq War Resolution vote that is still causing sectarian violence in Iraq today and 3) She is about as exciting as watching NASCAR for a few hours. Exciting in the beginning, boring in the middle, and just about half an exciting at the end, and always plenty of wrecks in the middle.
At the end, I want to vote for someone with his or her heart and ideals in the right place, and the right environment to represent a new set of ideas, and that's why everyone is excited. Hillary can't even create that kind of spark. In 2004, Howard Dean created a kind of spark, but fell flat at the end, but he did get people interested in voting, and was very successful with his 50 state strategy that brought the Democratic wave in 2006 and again in 2008, ushering in Obama. If Bernie can create that spark and sustain it, then the turnout will heavily favor the Democratic Party, but we all have to work together to make it happen.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Thanks for the kick.
Cha
(297,692 posts)place!
Mr. Robot
(39 posts)I'll tell you - the Hillary Clinton room kicked me out, and before that I was on the fence, and I was questioning on her recent activities, and asking why, and I guess they found me as a threat, and was blocked.
I guess I'll take it as a badge of honor, but those Super PACs are not going to be attracting much, because after 30 years, America wants a real change.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)... instead of the disgusting bullshit attack threads that have overrun this place.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)I'm glad to see you find her record improved enough to support her but I'm not sure how she has changed. I'm curious what she has done that you now see her as the best candidate for President? Her views are still the same, she's still a decent, caring person and she was a great SOS. I was a Hillary supporter in 2008 and the proudest day of my life was when I caucused for her. I still like her, I think she's one hell of a classy woman. I just don't think she's the President we need at this time.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5692646#5699079
post #37 was when you said that
R B Garr
(16,979 posts)Since that time, Clinton and Obama healed their divides and she served as his Secretary of State. This is an example of something that has been overcome by events and is no longer accurate. At least that's what I read out of it.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)I was curious as to why Hillary is no longer considered to be "morally depraved" by the supporter now, at this time. That's not out of context, Hillary still supports the same Liberal issues then when she was running for President as she does now when she's running for President.
R B Garr
(16,979 posts)ago in the primaries, not so much a stand-alone comment about Clinton.
Clinton has since served Obama quite well, so whatever event that poster commented on has been overcome by their mutual respect and goals as a team working together. I've just seen so many things about Clinton taken out of context that are no longer relevant. Thanks for your explanation.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)it's one hell of an interesting snap shot when you consider this primary isn't it? But commenting on a persons one sentence opinion of a candidate and giving an actual link to what they have actually said is not taking anything out of context. Your welcome and thanks for the civil conversation.
R B Garr
(16,979 posts)so that's why I said "in relation to Obama vs. Clinton". That's what made it look out of context with what is happening now, especially considering that Sanders and Clinton haven't really even sparred yet in any real campaign way. But you wouldn't think that reading this website, so that's also why it looked out of context.
I only commented again since you quoted what I said which was in relation to the linked thread from 2008. Well, gotta run to do errands, so I'll let this go at that.
Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-26-08 07:18 PM
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22. hilary is a tenacious LIAR and has never
fought for a fooking thing except herself.
that is quite the eye-opening thread!
Autumn
(45,120 posts)what Hillary has done differently that she supports her this time. I was a Hillary supporter then and that was a nasty time for us. The only difference now is that Hillary is a couple years older. Hillary's views are still the same. I was going though my bookmarks and found that thread.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)I didnt support Hillary last time and I still dont. A full 180 like that is beyond my comprehension.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)I wanted a woman President and Health Care reform so I supported her because I believed that Hillary would have fought tooth and nail for a Public Option. That was something she very much wanted.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)And she probably would have. For me, it was more of a trust thing. Triangulation isnt something I can tolerate. That and I thought Obama was further left than he is.
Theres neither of those issues with Bernie though. I cant *wait* to cast my primary vote. In NH.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Bernie I trust. What you see it just what you get.
Cha
(297,692 posts)And, the IWR vote.. Things change.. people learn and grow or they're stagnant.
I have too.. wow, I was out of control! "Two Americas" didn't turn out so good, though.
I started liking her after she graciously conceded at the Dem Convention and then after President Obama appointed her as SOS.. she did a brilliant job. They put aside their differences and came together for the country and so did I. I can certainly change how I feel about people over the years. This isn't the first time.
I haven't exactly settled on a candidate yet but now I don't like the slimey posts about the Dem candidates. So I'm all for these positive Posts Agschmid is making about Hillary.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)I'm sorry you are getting harassed over this.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Since so many here think Hillary has never done any good in her career.
And, as long as the board owner is OK with it, no one can make you stop.
Keep up the good work!
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Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)The OP volunteered to be a host of the Bernie Sanders group. They are a saint.
SunSeeker
(51,714 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)about.
Mahalo SunSeeker!
SunSeeker
(51,714 posts)Cha
(297,692 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Is it funded by Hillary or what?
TM99
(8,352 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)But it's to deal with right wing smear attacks such as the ones that will come from Bush/Rubio/Rand. I think all Democratic candidates should have a website like this.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)It's a shame that it's needed even within our own party.
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)Part of her resume?
Can't have it both ways and tout her FL experience and then say that Bill was Pesident when people start unleashing all the bad things that happened.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Seems they are more offended by your willingness to do so. Great posts.
PS: Six words in all caps makes two or three posters feel as if they are being yelled at. Keep yelling. Hillarys progressive record should be shouted from the rooftops.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)We should be working to elect the candidates we want, rather than ripping them to shreds over ever rediculous thing.
No matter who the nominee is they have an UPHILL fight.
horseshoecrab
(944 posts)Exactly.
What a bizarre reaction to your affirmation.
Lancero
(3,015 posts)Sadly, many on this site seem to not know this.
Although I've actually seen a few positive changes today, IMO.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)William769
(55,148 posts)Thank you.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)was hidden by the trees. Good post, appreciate the information, I actually read the whole post, the caps did not bother me.