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``Five dollars and fifteen cents an hour, I think, is a national embarrassment,'' he said. ``Since we can't (raise the wage) in Congress, we'll do it on the ground.''

Not even at the Wendy's restaurants he claims to frequent are unskilled workers paid only $5.15 per hour. I realize Breck Girl doesn't have a clue what it's like in the real world, where people actually work for a living, but anyone with two active brain cells who starts at minimum wage probably will get a raise in a short period of time. The only reason Dems support raising the minimum wage is because their labor union backers have tied their own contracts to it. Whenever the federal minimum wage goes up, so do their inflated wages.