are you asking? are you requiring? when does the greed stop? well, the greed hasn t stopped yet. that was the late, great senator ted kennedy fighting for an increase in the minimum wage five years ago. the battle was won in 2009. it was increased from $5.25 an hour to $7.25 an hour. now there s a new fight. $7.25 an hour can t support our families. do the math. for a year in the minimum wage amounts to only $15,000 a year. that s almost $8,000 below the federal poverty line for a family of four. workers in america desperately need a raise in the struggling economy. people who work hard should be able to live off their wages and support their families. republicans are generally opposed to raising the minimum wage. take a look ought what mitt romney saidresisantly. certainly, the level of inflation is something you should look at and you should identify what s the right way to keep americans
find it hard to believe they ll find people of the same caliber that our folks in freeport do right now. dot, who do you blame for this situation? i blame the politicians. and the government for allowing these big corporations to take our jobs and send them overseas. i call it corporate greed. shelly, what would you like to say to mitt romney? well, i guess i would like to tell governor romney that it s really easy to stand on the stage and talk in abstract, but it s not abstract on a local level. we have 170 families in freeport that are going to be impacted. they re going to lose their jobs. some like dot have worked there their whole careers and now they re faced in middle age, they re going to have a very difficult time in this economy finding jobs. but it s not just them because there s a ripple effect. it s not just the people who work adsensata. it s the mechanics who fix their
find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. my name is joann. i m 35 years old. and i m a single mother of two girls. i work six years at the company and i recently found my job was going overseas. i m worried that i won t be able to feed or clothe or pay for schooling for my daughters. the company mitt romney built is still outsourcing jobs. bain capital s latest target is a plant of 170 workers in fr
mitt romney doesn t want to do for whatever reason. you ve had bill kristol, who is a king maker in the party, michael steele, the former chairman of the party, rick perry, one of the candidates sort of saying it obliquely today. and rick santorum said it during the campaign. and then the national review, which is a very important organization on the conservative side and republican side, said release your tax returns. the wall street journal is sort of saying, and rupert murdoch has done nothing but criticize the romney campaign for what he sees as their ineptitude. i asked this guy who was a manager of one of the campaigns, could they get rid of romney? he said, no, that s crazy, but nobody likes mitt romney. he said in 2008, the other republican candidates, the one they didn t like, was mitt romney. in 2012, the one they didn t like was mitt romney. now, mitt romney used his money and his muscle to get the
seems to have already broken with conservatives calling on him to release more returns. this is just a continual drip. i was laughing when you in o introduced me because i was talking to your producer, and you and i and he all had the same idea at the same time earlier today. which is, is there any conceivable way that the republicans looking at this situation would say, you know what, we don t really want mitt romney anyway. why not put him out on the ice floe. i talked to some key people in the party, including a campaign manager from one of the other campaigns in this race in the republican side earlier this year. and i said, is there any way that the republicans would just say, you know what, let s get rid of this guy? the reason i said that and asked that is because you have had an amazing murderer s row of conservatives and republicans demanding or suggesting that mitt romney release many years of his tax returns. which is obviously something