Senate Defeats Minimum Wage Bill

A modest proposal by Sen. Kennedy to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 over three years and even that's too much for the millionaires in the Republican Party to stomach. According to a post on Democratic Underground, the bill was killed after Sen. Frist added an anti-choice amendment to it.

Of course, even if it had passed. $7.25 is a piss-poor amount to earn for an hour's work. Waiting three years for it to get to that level would, absent some major change in the economy, render it pretty worthless in terms of improving anybody's way of life.

Oh, well, at least corporations are protected from having to pay employees a decent, fair wage for their work. That's what really matters. The economy can continue to boom for those in the top two percent.

We so need a viable third party.

Nausea-inducing update: I forgot, but just a week ago, members of Congress voted to give themselves a pay raise of $3,300. They had realized, you see, that with the cost of living going up, they just couldn't live on less than $168,000 a year.

This is a perennial thing with Congress. At least they're consistent. For 10 years, they've consistently refused to raise the minimum wage and for 10 years they've consistently given themselves nice fat pay raises.

Re: what I said before, we need a viable third party and a law requiring Congressional pay to be no more than the minimum wage. Watch how fast cashiers at McDonald's would be living the high life, then.