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Biden says UAW should fight for 40% pay raise in Michigan strike visit
(www.reuters.com)
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They are when it comes to wages.
The federal minimum wage has been 7 bucks for fifteen years. Both sides have had a total majority with the presidency in that time frame.
Literally the same.
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... is it enough for you?
The HCA is a private for profit insurance company.
You're moving the goalpost. Is it enough? No. But there's one party where it happened and another party that literally did everything they could against it. Both parties are definitely not the same.
I don't think both parties are the same. I think they're both bad and we're fucked no matter who wins, but I can admit America will collapse slower under Democrats. I guess that's preferable.
I'm still voting for Cornell West. Nyaa nyaa~
Just going to ignore how Biden has asked Congress to legislate a higher minimum wage and issues an executive order requiring a higher minimum wage for Federal contractors?
The Democrats have only controlled Congress and the presidency at the same time for about 4 months in the past 4 decades, beginning in September 2009. Before then... idk it would have been before Reagan. When was the last time the minimum wage increased? 2009.
"Both sides are the same" is a Republican talking point.
Can't be said enough.
Find someone telling you how both sides suck, and then look what it's in reply to. It's always, ALWAYS to deflect from Republican shortcomings or to deflect from positive news about Democrats.
A-L-W-A-Y-S.
That's not true. Biden took away railroad worker's right to strike. He is only pretending to support the UAW strike.
Democrats had it for 2 years in the past 20+ years...not the fuckin same. Republicans had it for 14 years. Anything Barack tried to do was shit on for 6 years of his presidency by Congress and his first two years he had he got a lot done, not to mention that he did actually raise the minimum wage for federal workers in 2014 by executive order because that's the only way anything could get changed when the dumb ass party had control. https://money.cnn.com/2014/02/12/news/economy/obama-executive-order-minimum-wage/index.html
Democrats only had it for ~4 months. 11 weeks of in-session Congress time.
I believe you, and I kinda remember that tbh but I'm having a hard time finding info on it.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/25/control-house-and-senate-1900/
Here's where I got my information
https://sandiegofreepress.org/2012/09/the-myth-of-the-filibuster-proof-democratic-senate/
A lot of datasets looking at Congress over time smooth over small nuances. They look at the bi-annual election results and assume that's what holds until the next election. The problem for answering a question like this is that Congress changes between elections. The Democrat majority includes Arlan Spectre, who defected. Al Franken, whose election was contested and not resolved until months into his term. Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd were ancient and in the process of dying (perfectly fair to blame the party for letting them cling to office too long. Some things never change). The article doesn't mention it, but I think that 60 senators includes one or two independents who caucused with the Dems too, like Bernie Sanders.
Whew, good thing we are able to make such broad sweeping generalized comparisons based on a single issue.