We need an economy that produces work for all our citizens, for our small towns as well as our cities, for people who have a college degree and those who don’t. This is one of the biggest challenges we face as a nation
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MLK understood the importance & dignity of work, something our policy “experts” have forgotten. He famously said: “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance...”
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Are you seriously trying to use Dr. King's legacy to attack the very people he was fighting for? There is no dignity in working full time or more and still living in poverty. There is no dignity in losing everything you've worked for to pay for medical treatment.
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If he wants to learn something about the “Dignity of Work,” he should talk to someone who truly knows something about it and fights for it...
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IF you believe that, why won’t you raise the minimum wage?! I think you’re lying, as usual.
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Just like he lied about "protecting" preexisting conditions in health insurance coverage (while joining a lawsuit to strip it away).
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And he eloquently said, “I must confess that I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. . . who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”
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So, you will be working to raise the minimum wage and strengthen unions, then?
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Could you explain this? Who are the experts you are talking about, and how do they diminish a work mentality?
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