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(10,495 posts)When songs like this get written, things are bad.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)to the Royalist, you are going to lose your money one way or the other.
midnight
(26,624 posts)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/elizabeth-warren-minimum-wage_n_2900984.html?utm_hp_ref=mostp
There was a video to this story, but it is not working.
Minimum wage to 10.00 in a three year step. Indexing minimum wage.
"If we started in 1960 and we said that as productivity goes up, that is as workers are producing more, then the minimum wage is going to go up the same. And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour," she said, speaking to Dr. Arindrajit Dube, a University of Massachusetts Amherst professor who has studied the economic impacts of minimum wage. "So my question is Mr. Dube, with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75? It sure didn't go to the worker."
http://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/keeping-up-with-a-changing-economy-indexing-the-minimum-wage
davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I was very moved - which doesn't happen often anymore. Perhaps so much of what has been going on - so many terrible things, perhaps it's made me a bit numb inside.
We need more music like this - we ought to do what they did in the sixties and get together around campfires, march in the thousands, or even the millions - sing this song on Wall Street until they shut it down. Millionaires and billionaires... getting tax cuts while everyone else gets fucked. Trade deals that we all know are going to screw the little people even more - an MIC that is totally out of control, politicians and government agencies now with license to spy on whatever the hell they want, whenever they please...
The big thing though, the biggest thing of all, is that the majority can no longer afford to "make it here". Pretty fucking sad when the so called "richest Country on earth" has a minimum wage that can't pay for simple things like heat, food, electricity, gas.
Sanders gives me some hope. I know he can't do everything, but maybe, with his direction and leadership, we can get things moving in the right direction.
Or maybe Clinton will blow him away. I don't know. I do know that too much more of this, too much more of this oligarchy shit and the poor and the working class won't have anything left to take. Perhaps when that time comes, we'll get angry enough to do something.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)lame54
(35,295 posts)I made this vid in 2007, after I heard this song.
All of his music is really great. He is an excellent story teller,just like his dad.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)Great song.