Obama Admits Mistakes, Says He Wants Second Term 'Badly' In Diane Sawyer Interview

Federal minimum wage and SCHIP?

The history of US federal minimum wage is a SCANDAL.  It doesn't begin to keep up with inflation or raise people up out of poverty.  That is the point of minimum wage -- So that people don't live in poverty.  And the incrementa­l pittance increases over the past 70 years have acted like the release button on a pressure cooker, never actually addressing the problem but serving to keep the status quo in place.

There is nothing that Republican­s have done or Democrats have done in the past 30 years without the other party signing on.


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