The absolutely un-American thinking of billionaires and billionaire wannabes like Romney was made obvious to all by a Republican actor whose reputation rivals the sainted Reagan, except this one can act, and is intelligent.
The enthusiasm for Mitt’s world view was so poor in Tuesday’s Republican primaries that in some counties Romney received no votes at all. Desperate to somehow make himself relevant again, Mittens has come out in favor of indexing the minimum wage to inflation, and this drives people like Steve Forbes nuts. Forbes, whose inherited fortune makes somebody like Romney appear middleclass, credits this radical opinion to Romney still being insecure about his own wealth.
This isn’t a new idea for Romney who ran with this position in 2008. Those on the hardcore right who believe that paying people anything at all costs jobs would like no minimum wage at all. The truth is that Republicans have been so successful in driving down wages over the past 30 years that the current minimum would need to double to bring it up to 1938 levels. New factory hires are lucky to get paid at this 1938 equivalent with no prospects of a raise. In 1938 unionized factory workers made several times the 25 cents/hour minimum wage. German factory workers today make nine times the 7.25 US minimum, and receive benefits that no American worker can ever hope to see.
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