[lbo-talk] Interview with Left Party Leader Oskar Lafontaine

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 18 12:20:00 PDT 2009


On May 18, 2009, at 2:32 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> i fing two things interesting, in a tongue-and-cheek way: that the
> left party is being accused of moving to the left! and that their
> proposed minimum wage is the lousy equivalent of $13.60. given our
> stereotypes of european welfare states: bfd!

Our average hourly wage was $18.51 in April. Their min would be 73% of our average!



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