Re: Republicans Reject Minimum Wage Increase

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:34:41 GMT, "Duine" <duine@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Who cares since each state can establish their own minimum wage? Obviously
you are too ignorant to realize that's exactly what Florida did last year.

1,748 days without another terrorist attack on the United States.
Thank you President Bush! <cheering>

Duine
You must be smoking the funny stuff, 20,000,000 wetbacks here and the
boarder is still open to keep the slaves working for peanuts.

"trudogg" <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This week, the Republican Senate rejected Senator Kennedy's proposal
to raise the federal minimum wage. By a vote of 52-46, Republicans
cast their cold-hearted votes to keep the minimum wage at the same
rate it has been at for the last nine years.

This letter from a reader in the Sun-Sentinel pretty much sums up the
issue:

Sen. Mel Martínez should try to live on $10,712 per year ($5.15 an
hour). Clearly, based on his recent vote not to raise the minimum
wage, he feels that Americans earning that amount can sustain
themselves.

He can say it is to help business or to protect jobs, but he has
once again stuck it to working Americans who will live below the
poverty level working full time at that wage. Why ask business to pay
a fair wage when he can burden the American working family already
crushed under the national debt?

Thank you, Sen. Martínez, for keeping an affordable home out of
the grasp of working Americans. His anti-family vote not to raise the
federal minimum wage while he accepts a raise is the height of
hypocrisy.

Whatever he got for his soul, he should donate it to a family
trying to survive at $5.15 an hour. For his sake, I hope that he has
enough wealthy constituents to support his next campaign, but I doubt
it. Shame on him.

Hard-working Americans who get paid the minimum wage don't get the
luxury of automatic pay raises, like members of Congress do. For the
record, just this month, Congress went ahead and agreed to keep that
automatic salary increase.

Every single Democrat present voted for the minimum wage increase. The
only Republicans to join Democrats and side with the American worker
were Senators Chafee, Collins, DeWine, Jeffords, Lugar, Snowe,
Specter, and Warner.

--from the Kos.

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