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America isn't congress. america isn't washington. america is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. america is the union leader and the ceo who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
-Barack Obama
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America Isn't Congress. America Isn't Washington. America

Barack Obama
America isn't congress. america isn't washington. america is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. america is the union leader and the ceo who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.
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If i were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, i would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. if i disapproved of its policy, i would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, i would join in order to put them out. i believe in the union and i believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.
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[a] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. that's wrong. that's why, since the last time this congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.
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The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. the conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. the absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.
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A great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. take wal-mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... you think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?
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