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

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon May 18 14:09:28 PDT 2009


shag carpet bomb wrote:


> interesting, especially in light of discussion around german politics
> by angelus novus. (got this from the platypus society list, which I
> joined out of curiosity when SA posted something about the group).
>
> 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!

That's almost twice the new, hiked U.S. Obama-Ted Kennedy minimum wage. Bfd?

SA



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