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Fragile democracy. we have the lowest voter turn out of any major country on earth. three years ago in the nonpresidential elections, 36% of the american people voted. almost 2/3 of the american people did not vote. congress has a favorableryi rat of 15/18%. we would probably disagree as to why people feel the way they do. i think they feel their voice doesn t matter when billionaires are buying elenctions and when corporations have so much power over our economy. our job is to revitalize american democracy to make you understand that you are america and when we stand together we can do real things. and that is a very serious concern. ....
The time to raise a minimum wage that in real terms right now is below where it was when harry truman was in office. i want to put the minimum wage in perspective with the charts. if you take inflation into account, the real value of minimum wage is $7.25, about where it was in 1960, but if you had to grow it at the same rate of the income of the top 1%, it would be $25.18 today, congressman. we can t get your colleagues to bring it up to $10. look, the minimum wage, and i think the u.s. senate is going to act on a minimum wage increase, and then it will be on the house to hopefully take it up. but we have a problem. because we have a majority in the house that doesn t seem to understand that we need to have, if we want to sell cars, the car ....