These are the *same* people who argued against the weekend
Days off??!! What?! It will crash the economy. What will our small businesses do??
Question: Why do low wage workers need to pull themselves up by bootstraps and the businesses that have their payroll subsidized by our government don’t?
Because make no mistake: every penny a business pays below a minimum living wage is a penny YOU AS TAXPAYERS cough up for things like food, shelter, healthcare, childcare.
That’s math 🧮
“I remember my 1st job and how it helped teach me the value of a dollar”
Seat belts?!!? Do you want to put our auto companies out of business?!??
Expiration dates on food?!?? Is this the kind of nanny state dystopia you want your kids to grow up in?!??
One of life’s greatest, enduring mysteries is the generation after generation group of people who-despite all evidence to contrary- fight tooth and nail to proudly stand for and on the wrong side of history.
The kind that distinguish themselves today by denying a wedding cake to a gay couple because that’s what Jesus would want them to do.
And have zero issue with a single parent toiling in perpetual twilight for $7.50 hr because they worked at DQ for $2.65 hr in 1978 at 16.
Google shows the average apartment in the US is almost $1,500 a month.
Senators blocking $15 hr, earning $174,000 a year, can afford that easy.
Our current minimum wage of $7.25 hr is $1,200 a month.
That’s some shitty math
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Legal Weed > Grafting a mini casino onto a dead mall + “small games of chance in bars” + lying about the 2020 election
FUN FACT: In PA, it’s perfectly legal to gamble away your retirement savings *on your iPhone* but you’ll go to prison for years as a convicted felon if you’re caught with 2 weed plants in your home.
27 years ago today, I met my Big Brothers “little”, Nick: One of the most transformative relationships of my life.
By 8, he would become an AIDS orphan. His circumstances were so divergent from my own, and unable to reconcile that, I upended my whole path and took a new one.
Right before his mother died in 1994, I promised her I would get her son to college.
This is Nick’s graduation from @wjcollege in 2009 with G, and Karl.
By then, I just won my 2nd term as Braddock’s mayor. A path that Nick and his circumstances put me on 15 years earlier.
Today, Nick is a 36 year old man-12 years older than I was when we met- and works for an organization that helps the formerly incarcerated acclimate onto a new path.
I am your LG, and before you today, but for that core observation of our society I first fully absorbed in 1994.