Messed up priorities!! [View All]

[TheYellowDog]

People, I was at anti-war protest today getting signatures for a $1 minimum-wage increase ballot iniative, above the current $5.15 minum wage, and a guy working for Amnesty International was there. I told him about the petition and he said, "Why isn't it more"?

I then said that anything more would not pass. He then said well, "if I sign that means that I think that paying people low wages is okay". I then told him well those people making $5.15 would appreciate the money. And that change happens incrementally.

Then he said well "that's not what I believe in. If I sign this then nothing changes. We can't compromise." He then went on and on about how he could not do it morally because it meant that he would be settling for less. I got very angry but kept my cool and walked away.

Another woman yelled at me stating that I "supported slave labor" because we were only having it set at $6.15 an hour.

These people really piss the living shit out of me. These fucking people--and there were plenty of them there--would not sign the fucking petition because it is not like "10 or 12 dollars an hour", something that would never pass on the ballot. They fucking would deny the poorest of New York's workers an extra $40 a week, $160 a month, and $1920 a year because they didn't like the "increase". They CLAIM to care about the poor, well if they refuse to sign then they obviously don't. These people completely ignore the fact that raising the minimum wage to $12/hr right away would put MANY people out of work, it just wouldn't be economically sound.

I am so fucking angry right now. I am just beside myself. I can't stand these people.