"No, you don't get a raise...I do."
Jun. 21st, 2006 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeislerThe U.S. Senate today voted to defeat a proposed raise to the minimum wage -- a raise that would have been the first in a decade.
And yet, as Lou Dobbs notes, the House voted to give themselves a raise last week. And, funny, Congress has managed to give itself pretty regular raises over the last decade.
But screw the lowest paid workers. They don't do nearly as much posturing as our representatives.
Sez Dobbs,
And yet, as Lou Dobbs notes, the House voted to give themselves a raise last week. And, funny, Congress has managed to give itself pretty regular raises over the last decade.
But screw the lowest paid workers. They don't do nearly as much posturing as our representatives.
Sez Dobbs,
For some reason, our elected officials decided against holding a news conference. Maybe that's because they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that they raise their own salaries almost every year while refusing to raise the pay of our lowest-paid workers.May I recommend you check the voting record of your own representatives on various issues? The United States Senate roll-call vote for the minimum wage amendment is illuminating. Sixty votes were necessary to accept the increase. Only 52 voted in favor...