Note: The federal minimum wage was first passed 77 years ago - TPR
Fiorina chose to answer questions for much of her time onstage at the Des Moines Register's Soapbox... "I believe that minimum wage should be a state decisionn not a federal decision," Fiorina told the crowd. "Why? Because it makes no sense to say the minimum wage in New York City is the same as Mason City, Iowa."
Sam Smith, July 2015 - The current Republican Party is the most reactionary and destructive major political organization in American history since the secession by the South... Consider some of the current GOP efforts. In this list we begin with the number of years that the law the GOP is attempting to unravel has been in effect:
- :240 years; Post Office – The Republicans have repeatedly attacked the nation’s postal service
- 226 years: Voting rights. The Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Zellers (R) claims that voting is "a privilege, it's not a right,"
- 216 years: Estate tax. Rand Paul would like to do away with it.
- 177 years: University of Wisconsin – Governor Walker engaged in the worst attack on the university in its history.
- 155 years: Education labor unions: Jeb Bush would get rid of them
- 99 years: Planned Parenthood – GOP leading the war against Planned Parenthood.
- 82 years: National Labor Relations Board – The GOP wanted to do away with it.
- 80 years: Social Security. Jeb Bush & Ted Cruz, for example, would like to privatize Social Security
- 77 years: Federal minimum wage – Opposed by Jeb Bush among others.
- 49 years: Medicare. Jeb Bush, among others, wants to phase out Medicare
- 45 years: EPA - Newt Gingrich wants to get rid of it. As did Michelle Bachmann.
- 37 years; FEMA - Republicans have repeatedly voted to cut or eliminate disaster relief.
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An unbroken tradition of judicial supremacy (ever since Dred Scott) with the formation of a separate government (the states and executive replacing Congress), and the defeat of the electorate as sovereign (the disenfranchisement of 1980). The democracy of one party popular supermajority of FDR, JFK, LBJ, Carter was defeated by constitutional imposition of a permanent house divided (Buckley v. Valeo) delivering sovereignty to the global special interests (1981 recapitulates 1861) just as Washington had warned against.
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