Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you—using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions – that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.
FDR during a fireside chat, 1938
amazing how this would be radical for any politician to say now. points to how far our parameters have shifted to the right.
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*glares pointedly at the entire Walton family*
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