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[quote=Anonymous]Holy jesus some of you are dense. I'm not OP but it was pretty easy to figure out what they meant, so let me explain it simply for those who couldn't.

GOPers love to say "we don't need to raise the minimum wage because minimum wage jobs are supposed to be for people like teenagers who don't need to support themselves financially."

OP is sarcastically saying "well if all these jobs are for teenagers who don't need to support themselves financially, why are they all open when teenagers who don't support themselves financially are in school."

OP is not actually asking the question, they are pointing out the absurdity of Republicans saying that jobs that happen when teenagers are in school are supposed to be filled by teenagers.

For anyone saying "well not all teenagers are in school," you're missing the point. 18 and 19 year old teenagers who are no longer in school need to support themselves financially and cannot on a $7.25 minimum wage.

Once again, the GOP wants to have their cake and eat it too, or really just want to make yet another bad faith argument, speaking out of both sides of their mouth at once. "These jobs are for teens" when they want to defend the low wage, then "there are teens who aren't supported by their parents" when they want to defend the contradiction that the jobs have hours teens can't work. When they say the former, they never acknowledge the hours, when they say the latter they never acknowledge the wage.   [/quote]

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