You can't get 80% of the people to agree on ANYTHING these days

[underpants]

Jan 3, 2007
WASHINGTON - One of the Democrats' top goals - a higher minimum wage - enjoys broad public support as the party takes control of Congress for the first time in a dozen years.

Fully 80 percent of survey respondents favor an increase, too.

Support is strongest among Democrats, 91 percent, while 65 percent of Republicans back the idea.

Latest poll I could find

Is this new??? Has there been a recent campaign by the liberal media to change public opinion?????


April 19, 2006
By an overwhelming margin (83% to 14%), the American public favors raising the federal minimum wage to $7.15 per hour -- a hefty $2.00 an hour increase. And nearly half (49%) say they strongly support such an increase. While there are differences in the extent of support across political and socioeconomic lines, raising the minimum wage receives widespread support from both Republicans and Democrats, wealthy and poor.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/18/maximum-support-for-raising-the-minimum

[lancdem]

1. The Repubs blocking it are in the pocket

of corporate interests; the public be damned.

[Zenlitened]

2. Well, I'm not so sure that's true...

Kidding. I kid! :)

Seriously. Eighty percent spells M-A-N-D-A-T-E in big bold letters.

Dems, don't forget it. The voters sure won't when it comes time to kick out still more GOP-ers in 2008.

Don't give an inch on this one.

[JuniperLea]

3. Most of us know what it means to be struggling financially

14% could be the 2% that have 95% of the money and the 12% who want so badly to boost themselves up to the 2%.

Most of us also realize this trickle down theory is bullshit and always has been, even since the Reagan Regime tried that crap.

When we lift up the poorest of us, we lift us all up. When more of us are lifted up, there are more of us to lift up others. Trickle down my ass. It's an uphill battle to keep yourself financially secure and it always has been (except for the 2%). Lift 'em all up!!! Fuck the 2%!!!

[Captain Hilts]

4. Wal-Mart, McDonald's, the National Restaurant Assn. and Retailers Assn. oppose it. nt

[blm]

5. That's a good lead to another observation, the country WAS very united that Nixon had to go

and was united behind the idea that George Bush had to go in 92.

So, when Ford pardoned Nixon, and Clinton closed the books on Bush1's crimes of office, they claimed they were doing it to UNIFY the country.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-29.htm


What a bunch of crap to coverup for secrecy, privilege and crimes of office that needed all the facts fully vetted. Nothing unifies a country more than everyone seeing and hearing the same FACTS.

It took a category 5 hurricane for this country to all see and hear the same facts for a change.

[elehhhhna]

6. "a hefty $2.00 an hour increase" HEFTY? ROFLMAO

[DerBeppo]

7. Ever known anyone to say "no" to more money?

especially those with no stake in having to pay the additional money.

[ieoeja]

8. Who has "no stake in having to pay"?

It's a sure thing the employers will pass along the price of this to the consumer. People know that. They also know that price spread across all the consumers isn't all that much compared to how much this increase will mean to hourly workers.

And most of all, 80% know that this is just the right and decent thing to do.