Posted on 11/12/2015 10:12:05 PM PST by UncleRicosFootball
Trump: I never said wages are too high By ELIZA COLLINS 11/12/15 06:53 PM EST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Donald Trump on Thursday clarified his comments from Tuesday night's GOP debate about wages being too high, saying the blowback has been misguided.
The billionaire businessman was asked during the Fox Business debate about whether he was sympathetic to protesters who have been pushing for the minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour.
“I can’t be…and the reason I can’t be is because we are a country that is being beaten on every front,†Trump said on Tuesday night. “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not going to be able to compete against the world.â€
But on Fox News’ “Special Report†Thursday he insisted that he never said wages were too high, just that the minimum wage should not increase.
“I didn’t say that. Bret, we were talking about the minimum wage, and they said ‘should we increase the minimum wage?’ And I’m saying that if we’re going to compete with other countries we can’t do that because the wages would be too high,†Trump said after host Bret Baier asked him about his comments.
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Trump 2012: Romney lost because he was too mean with his self-deportation policy Trump 2015: We need to deport all illegal aliens with a newly created superforce
Consistency Trump.. consistency
More reason to support Cruz
Wages would be a lot higher if there weren’t so many illegals!!!
Yikes! First real chink in the armor. Not a bleeding wound by any measure, but when you have to explain yourself, it takes you off message. And Trump has been brilliant about staying on message.
Consistency?
Nah, we just need more slogans.
It was obvious from the start that Trump was referring to minimum wage.
Actually Trump did say that at the last debate answering a question about minimum wage.
It may be true but I still cringed.
Cruz repeated twice same department to eliminate. Cruz had a problem.
The first of presidential debates is never announce that you’re going to name an exact number of government agencies.
The fact that these government agencies are so easy to forget should tell us something. We add billions to the national debt to support them yet they are so inconsequential in our lives that we can’t even remember their names.
Government agencies easy to forget because its Cruz, but Trump, My God he just made a biggest blunder by not making full detailed paragraph explaining wages. Trump is not conservative. Right.
Commonsense/Context says, Trump was referring to minimum wage.
So making a simple mistake is the same as flip-flopping? Furthermore, what does that have to do with the price of eggs in China? This piece is about Trump blatantly lying. There are plenty of other articles on which you can discuss Cruz’s faux pas.
Now you are believing what Politico is saying.
Difference between Cruz and Trump, one use lawyer language and other street talk.
Same thing about what he said about Ben Carson, misquoted, or I didn’t say that.
What else has Donald Trump NOT been consistent about ?
If that was so why did he have to explain himself there ?
I’m all for sending them out but it will be a reckoning
Wages will soar as will inflation and blacks and white trash will have to learn to get off disability or welfare and go to back to manual labor
No illegals no welfare and other handouts
It’s gone on so long contractors will have to round up legals to work or have real seasonal guests like they did in agri business when I was young
In Nashville all major construction and road work is Latinos
Foremen and skilled are white
Some concrete gangs are black....very few
Even many iron workers are Mex or some other 4 footer tribe
Because the Trump haters are stupid and desperate to find a way to get him. I saw zero commentary about the wage statement on Twitter while the debate was ongoing.
So a Trump hater actually got in Trump’s face and called him on it ? That’s a new one for me to hear.
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