The Senate voted today 52-46 to defeat, for the ninth time since 1997, the proposal to increase the minimum wage. The lame, but predictable retort by Sen. Ted Kennedy, "Americans believe that no one who works hard for a living should have to live in poverty. A job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it," and then claiming a worker would earn $10,700 per year - almost $6 grand below the poverty level for a family of three. How ridiculous! What planet is he from? Nobody with a family of three is going to go out and get a minimum wage job. They'd have to more than triple the minimum wage just to bring it outr of the poverty level! What most people don't realize is that some big unions have a handy little clause that ties in there wage to the minimum wage. Thus if it goes up, their wages go up. How convenient during and election year! Of course the poor stiffs who get laid off, well who cares, they're just the little guy?
2006-06-21
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