Go Molly go, We really do need a living wage law

[madokie]

AUSTIN, Texas -- 2006 makes the ninth year in a row the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour. It's bad economics, it's bad policy, it's stupid, it's unfair, and it's high damn time to do something about it. It is also, as Sen. Edward Kennedy says, a moral issue.

The Democrats have a new strategy that may finally get the Republicans off the pot. They're working to get a minimum wage increase on state ballots, including Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Arkansas and Montana. The theory is that putting a minimum-wage increase on the ballot does for Democrats what putting on an anti-gay marriage proposition does for Republicans -- it gets out the base.

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For those who have been wondering where all the heroes are, let me recommend Russ Feingold, John Murtha and Cindy Sheehan. Isn't it amazing how often all you have to do to be a hero to is to stand up and tell the truth?

With those few, shining exceptions, we can bid adieu to 2005 without great regret. Or, as Texas Gov. Rick Perry said to a reporter earlier this year, "Adios, mo-fo."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/14023943p-14856266c.html

[ComerPerro]

1. Minimum wage has stayed the same for nine years, and

gas prices have more than doubled. For a few months in 2005, they were more than triple the prices of 1996.

[0007]

2. Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Union went bye bye

when greedy repukes figured out to get cheap labor.

junior sez they're only doing jobs that American don't want. Bull fucking shit!

Raise the mini mun wage and picket the lettuce field and see what happenings!

GOP don't want to talk about it.

[madokie]

3. The part I don't understand is, by raising the min wage

the min wage earner has more money to spend, alas more money for the fat cats. They just can't see the forest for the trees. I suppose though it is all about power.

[0007]

4. The fat cats can't save by giving their money to a society blood

sucker.

And another is fact it would be more money for the Social Security coffer, which they don't want!!

[B Calm]

5. I think the min wage should be $15.00 an hr. This is only $31,000

a year.

[freetradenow]

6. Raising the minimum wage is great for those that have a job

but it won't help those that have been looking for a job for more than 3 years when the scare job supply shrinks even more. :-(

[madokie]

7. Exactly, we must have a no outsoursing law also

By putting American's first we could all help the rest of the world in a way that is not possible now. After the worlds castrophies this year we have seen just how generous Americans can be.