Obama issued an executive order to raise the wages of federal contractors to a minimum of $12.15/hr after the Pelosi/Schumer Congress fumbled the ball. Biden was reluctantly unopposed to signing a $15/min national bill, until the Manchin/Sinema Senate quashed it back in '21.
And it should be noted that the Min Wage hike Bush signed was only on his desk when Pelosi stapled it to the Bank Bailout of '08.
So this isn’t a Dem/Rep thing, so much as it is a particular moment of convenience when certain progressive politicians can choose to exert leverage over their more conservative colleagues.
Pelosi/Schumer Congress fumbled the ball. Biden was reluctantly unopposed to signing a $15/min national bill, until the Manchin/Sinema Senate quashed it back in '21.
Of course Pelosi and Schumer “fumbled” it…that’s because that’s what they really wanted. And Biden, even though he said he would do that, he won’t.
When Biden was running in the primary, he said outright that he’d veto medicare for all if it ever got to his desk. Does that sound like someone who would raise wages?
YES! And people still brainlessly say over and over “best president of my lifetime” about a guy that deported more immigrants than any other president combined, more than Trump, Obama was the one who started putting kids in cages, Obama that pretended Flint Michigan’s water was fine, Obama allowed fracking to happen, which caused tap water in many places to become flammable. Obama took us from two illegal wars against countries that never attacked us up to at least 7. His drone bombings killed 90% civilians and those drone bombings were so frequent that they ran out of bombs for the drones.
Yes you read that right! The US military, which gets a bigger budget every year perpetually…ran out of one of their ammunitions, because they used it that much.
And under Trump, Pelosi and Schumer went out of their way to make sure the Trump administration got an even bigger military budget increase than they were even asking for TWICE!
Pelosi “TRUMP! With you! All roads lead to Putin! Now have a bigger military budget YOU RUSSIAN SCUM!”
Obama also made the deliberate choice to bow to Big Pharma and Big Insurance by killing single payer.
The military budget’s interesting, though. We spend more and more every year, trillions, but if you look at the war budget as a percentage of our GDP, it’s actually lower than it’s been in the past.
(Which still pisses me off, but it’s an interesting fact.)
Actually George W Bush was the last person to raise the minimum wage. That’s the second Bush for anyone who might not know.
Obama did nothing with it.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/government-contracts/minimum-wage
Obama issued an executive order to raise the wages of federal contractors to a minimum of $12.15/hr after the Pelosi/Schumer Congress fumbled the ball. Biden was reluctantly unopposed to signing a $15/min national bill, until the Manchin/Sinema Senate quashed it back in '21.
And it should be noted that the Min Wage hike Bush signed was only on his desk when Pelosi stapled it to the Bank Bailout of '08.
So this isn’t a Dem/Rep thing, so much as it is a particular moment of convenience when certain progressive politicians can choose to exert leverage over their more conservative colleagues.
Of course Pelosi and Schumer “fumbled” it…that’s because that’s what they really wanted. And Biden, even though he said he would do that, he won’t.
When Biden was running in the primary, he said outright that he’d veto medicare for all if it ever got to his desk. Does that sound like someone who would raise wages?
And he had a supermajority for a time, which makes his inaction that much worse.
YES! And people still brainlessly say over and over “best president of my lifetime” about a guy that deported more immigrants than any other president combined, more than Trump, Obama was the one who started putting kids in cages, Obama that pretended Flint Michigan’s water was fine, Obama allowed fracking to happen, which caused tap water in many places to become flammable. Obama took us from two illegal wars against countries that never attacked us up to at least 7. His drone bombings killed 90% civilians and those drone bombings were so frequent that they ran out of bombs for the drones.
Yes you read that right! The US military, which gets a bigger budget every year perpetually…ran out of one of their ammunitions, because they used it that much.
And under Trump, Pelosi and Schumer went out of their way to make sure the Trump administration got an even bigger military budget increase than they were even asking for TWICE!
Pelosi “TRUMP! With you! All roads lead to Putin! Now have a bigger military budget YOU RUSSIAN SCUM!”
Obama also made the deliberate choice to bow to Big Pharma and Big Insurance by killing single payer.
The military budget’s interesting, though. We spend more and more every year, trillions, but if you look at the war budget as a percentage of our GDP, it’s actually lower than it’s been in the past.
(Which still pisses me off, but it’s an interesting fact.)
Thanks Obama
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