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sarah FAILIN

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17. I try to tell n people this and they just zoom on by.

Reply to ksoze (Reply #14)

Mon Feb 11, 2019, 07:34 PM

Feb 2019

My dad worked for $3.25/hr back then and was glad to get it.
Skipping over the fact that it was above minimum wage makes us look dumb imo, but everyone else gets excited to have caught him again being a jerk.

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PRESIDENT TRUMP HIRED UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FOR $4 [View all] mikeysnot Feb 2019 OP

kick CatWoman Feb 2019 #1

Appalling. Sickening. Ohiogal Feb 2019 #2

So proud of my pResident.... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #3

Until the laziest man & his criminal cherubs are in jail.... SallyHemmings Feb 2019 #8

Visibility kick awesomerwb1 Feb 2019 #4

FWIW, minimum wage in 1980 was $3 an hour TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #5

Another case of the Main Street Media not even caring about tRump PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #6

K&R... spanone Feb 2019 #7

This is not a new story. Sickening that the media never paid much attention to it. Goodheart Feb 2019 #9

Perhaps if we bring it to their attention . . . again gratuitous Feb 2019 #10

Agree with other posters, but how to get lame stream media to even talk about it? Evolve Dammit Feb 2019 #19

If they Could Get Away With it, Republicans Would Return to Slavery dlk Feb 2019 #11

Missouri already tried to get rid of child labor laws, ... aggiesal Feb 2019 #13

They do, this shut down proved it mikeysnot Feb 2019 #23

Of course he did Miigwech Feb 2019 #12

FYI - This was almost 4 decades ago. ksoze Feb 2019 #14

I try to tell n people this and they just zoom on by. sarah FAILIN Feb 2019 #17

Slavery. KPN Feb 2019 #15

I'd bet money he stiffed Kazcycki & Sons in the end pecosbob Feb 2019 #16

Of course he did. brandnewday2009 Feb 2019 #18

The idea that he didn't have any undocumented workers period is laughable n/t hibbing Feb 2019 #20

.....$4.00 titanicdave Feb 2019 #21

No one does that. Blue_true Feb 2019 #22