'The Poor Suck'

[thewayne]

"I have to tell you the truth. I'm tired of hearing about the minimum wage. I really am."
—NJ Gov. Chris Christie

After running the statement through the Truth Behind The Lies (TM pending) filter, it comes out as "I have to tell you the truth. I'm tired of hearing about people so poor that they can't make meaningful donations to my campaign funds and those of my friends. I really am."

On rare occasion you find a politician who will honestly live on food stamps for a week, I believe Cory Booker did and found it extremely hard to work well while on it. I'd love to see Christie try it on minimum wage, obviously he couldn't survive the food stamps diet, he'd be roasting his kids.

Comments

[moiraj.livejournal.com]

I remember watching one newscaster ask another what she thought of living on the minimum wage for a while, as an experiment. She said she should because she would lose so much weight.

[silveradept]

I don't think it goes to the level of campaign donations - populist issues like the minimum wage traditionally do extremely well for Democrats and liberals. The more people talk/hear about it, the more likely the Republican elitist gets bounced and the business interests at the heart of the Republican party complain more about nor being able to exploit as easily.