Douglas Brunt Quotes

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Nothing helps families make end meet than higher wages.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.