A Better Minimum Wage For Mother's Day

Mitt Romney, on “Morning Joe” today, offered two ideas about what mothers in America deserve. The first was flowers. “Well, you know, I always get lilacs for my wife on Mother’s Day,” he said. “I find some place in the neighborhood where I can cut some lilacs, and so I’m going to be looking or going to the grocery store and finding some.”

But a woman working in a grocery store, where he could buy those flowers if scavenging fails him, might be more interested in his second point. At another moment in the interview, he said that he has parted company “with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it.” ...

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