Same old Republican war on the middle class and those striving to get into the middle class. Marco Rubio can speak Spanish, but that's about the only difference between him and the VP nominee last year, Paul Ryan. Both want to wage class warfare on behalf of the rich on everyone else. Case in point: the minimum wage.
Last night, the President called for an increase in the minimum wage:
"This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families," said Obama. "It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. And a whole lot of folks out there would probably need less help from government. In fact, working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher."
HuffPo
This is not only basic decency and fairness, but it also would increase demand and help the overall economy.
Today the spokesman of "The New Republican Party" (trademark pending), Marco Rubio, came out against not only President Obama's request to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, but his comment appears to oppose the very concept of a minimum wage.
“I support people making more than $9. I want people to make as much as they can. I don’t think a minimum wage law works,” Rubio told Charlie Rose. ”We all support — I certainly do — having more taxpayers, meaning more people who are employed. And I want people to make a lot more than $9 — $9 is not enough. The problem is you can’t do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.” What works, he said, is helping the private sector grow."
WaPo: Marco Rubio: ‘I don’t think a minimum wage law works’
Minimum wages actually help people working those jobs buy products, creating demand for an economy that is still well short of a normal demand for goods and services due to the Republican Great Recession of 2008.
Rubio instead wants the same old Romney shit. Tax cuts for the rich and you're on you're own for everyone else.
I'm not the biggest Hillary Clinton fan in the world, but if she runs I think she would decimate Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, or any of the right wing losers that the Rs see as "saviors." 2016 should be fun.
