If someone were to say eliminating the minimum wage “could potentially wipe out unemployment because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level," would you vote for them? In this person’s defense, yes, we could have a nation filled with people working for one dollar an hour, because then everyone can have a job…that’s fair right? Of course not! Would it surprise you to hear that it was Michele Bachmann who suggested eliminating the minimum wage?
When asked by George Stephanopoulos, on Good Morning America, Bachmann avoided going back on that 2005 quote and defending the minimum wage. She proposed to eliminate the minimum wage, all while she continues to make a pretty comfortable salary as a Member of Congress. Even after "opposing" a congressional pay raise, she has willingly accepted every one that passed, which she was not required to do.
This is a huge disconnect that the Republican presidential candidates have with the American people. While Democrats are working everyday on how to help lift American’s up, Republicans like Bachmann are looking on how to lift multi-billion dollar businesses up by increasing their profit margins. How can we ask Americans making minimum wage to accept less while we continue to give multi-millionaires tax breaks. Everyone deserves a living wage, and for our elected leaders willing to give them less is unacceptable. We live in the most prosperous nation in the world. We did not get here by the graces of millionaires and billionaires. It has been working people that built this country, and its time the Republicans stop attacking the American workers.
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