Resistance to Raising the Minimum Wage -- Murder in Slow Motion!
There is no greater mark of the Republican corruption, dishonesty, and greed than their resistance to increasing the minimum wage:
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1453117
The big lie here is that an increase will reduce the number of jobs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those at the bottom spend their monies on necessities -- and these produce far more jobs than yacht building or vacation stints in foreign lands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
It is increasingly clear that the right wing agenda is set to end off poverty in this country -- by killing off those who live in it! In New Orleans HUD is trying to close down the public housing projects. Nearly a decade at the present minmum wage has made it impossible for a husband and wife both working to earn together enough to lift themselves out of poverty. Medicaid is under attack -- one will need a passport or the equivalent proof of citizenship -- often nearly impossible to establish -- to qualify for it. This is murder in slow motion!
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
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http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1453117
The big lie here is that an increase will reduce the number of jobs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those at the bottom spend their monies on necessities -- and these produce far more jobs than yacht building or vacation stints in foreign lands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
It is increasingly clear that the right wing agenda is set to end off poverty in this country -- by killing off those who live in it! In New Orleans HUD is trying to close down the public housing projects. Nearly a decade at the present minmum wage has made it impossible for a husband and wife both working to earn together enough to lift themselves out of poverty. Medicaid is under attack -- one will need a passport or the equivalent proof of citizenship -- often nearly impossible to establish -- to qualify for it. This is murder in slow motion!
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
posted by Ed Kent at 9:49 AM
1 Comments:
WTF is wrong with pinning the minimum wage to the cost-of-living and to Congress' pay?
Such that Congress cannot increase their pay without increasing the minimum wage?
No one said that that would mean we could hire fewer legislators?
(However, if they sit around passing silly stuff like flag burning when the country is going down the freaking toilet in Iraq, people are going to start wondering if they're not under employed a little.)
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