YOU GOTTA LOVE THE GOP CONGRESS

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Mark Shields

This is a really good article which has a lot of factual information about the minimum wage and Congressional greed

When a couple of clueless pilots in a two-seater plane breached Washington's "no-fly zone" and Capitol Hill was evacuated, you will be comforted to learn, our congressional leaders were immediately whisked to safety in big, black armored SUVs.

You have to love the priorities of this Congress. More than two years and thousands of American casualties after the Pentagon's broken pledge to keep production lines working until all U.S. forces in Iraq had fully armored vehicles, today -- when one-third of the vehicles Americans use in that country remain, by the military's own standards, inadequately armored -- Republican congressional leaders show their commitment to the nation's brave volunteers overseas by protecting House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and his fellow patriots on the home front in oversized, fully armored SUVs.

How out-of-touch is this Congress and its leadership? While fewer and fewer private employers provide their workers with medical coverage or pensions and the record number of Americans without health insurance grows beyond 45 million, Congress provides itself with Rolls Royce coverage and pensions that vest after only five years, principally paid for by -- that's right -- their "employers." ...

Sorry.
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=msh

[ixion]

1. thanks!

:hi:

[indepat]

2. RW policies are the cancer eating at the heart and soul of this republic:

sadly most people either eat it up or are indifferent or ignorant as to their full agenda.

[finecraft]

3. Here's an idea- Lets index the minimum wage to Congressional pay raises

Congress gets a 3% raise, the minimum wage goes up 3%. Heck, we could even index it to the COLA adjustments given to Federal workers and retirees, although I prefer the index to Congressional pay raises because I'm sure that would provide a larger increase for minimum wage employees!