Political Quotes

“The President's people want to reclassify people who work at McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's as manufacturing so that the loss of manufacturing jobs appears less. But would the Senator comment on the fact that it seems it may be better for the President's folks to dwell on people who work in those places not having a raise in the minimum wage for as long as they have? People are working two and three jobs to make ends meet just barely. We don't hear a word from the administration, not a single word on increasing the minimum wage for these people who work in these places that they want to reclassify as manufacturing jobs, where they now make $5.15 an hour. And we have been stymied procedurally from raising even an up-or-down vote on the minimum wage that will allow us to do that. Yet they want to reclassify people who work in those places as manufacturers. Is this the height of nonsense?”