May Jobs Report: The Obama economy keeps roaring forward!

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Satisfactory. Finally stabilized employment. Now pump up the participation rate or gtfo. We can't afford entitlements unless we've got 68%-70% working.

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itt: republican tears

credit where credit is due, y'all almost destroyed the economy countless times, but at the end of the day, President Obama gave you a good whooping.

A kindergartner could "save" the economy with this much debt. The recovery has been tepid, and has generally fallen woefully short of what is needed to "spread the wealth around" and provide more opportunity to less fortunate workers.

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I mean, we've been TRYING to raise the minimum wage and the plutocratic nutjobs of your ilk keep stopping us. 

......and fat people are begging for more food stamps.

Americans are paid too much because we're taxed/mandated too much, and that's part of the reason why American labor can't compete.

How did FDR raise income for seniors? Min wage increases? The problem with Democrats is that you're not even good hacks. It's just a club for people who demand limitless stupidity from government. 

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He had Congress institute a payroll tax on all wage earners to fund a redistributive program known as Social Security, which also helped fund the federal government through the purchase of Treasury bonds. Of course, Social Security wasn't nearly enough to end elderly poverty as it was known then; that would have to wait until Medicare was passed in 1966 under LBJ. If you would like to learn more about poverty among the elderly prior to Medicare, I would advise you read The Other America by Michael Harrington.

Also, FDR was the first president to push for a minimum age, and it was set at 25 cents an hour in 1938.

So FDR did use minimum wage to increase senior income?