Last night I watched an interview with Lindsay Graham after the debate of the B-Team. Graham was talking about how to grow the economy. He said that if a town had lots of economic activity, and restaurants were opening up, waitresses would be in demand and their wages would rise.
I wonder if Sen. Graham knows that the “tipped minimum wage” in Pennsylvania is $2.83 an hour. I wonder if he knows that many waitresses would love to have the opportunity to get an education and move to a better job. I don’t think he has a clue about the difficulties of the working poor.
Today Linda and I visited Sagamore Hill, the Long Island home of Teddy Roosevelt. He was the president known as the “Trust Buster.” He won a Nobel prize for ending the Russo-Japanese War. He was responsible for creating some of our most famous national parks and national monuments. He settled a coal strike and won the respect of miners.
Theodore Roosevelt was a Republican. That sound you hear is old Teddy spinning in his grave after last night’s Republican debate.
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