“One of the ten demands from the March on Washington 50 years ago was for a national minimum wage act that would give all Americans a decent standard of living. Do you believe the national minimum wage of $7.25 accomplishes that demand?” No; even our state minimum wage of $8.25 is not sufficient; it’s just wrong for the United States to have a slave labor force! In the 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep George Miller (D-Calif) are supporting a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 “would increase the hourly minimum wage by 3 incremental increases of $.95 and then index it to inflation, so that as prices rise so would the minimum wage. It would also raise tipped employee’s wages from $2.13 an hour by increments of $.85 until it reaches 70 percent of the regular minimum wage”. Members of Congress have voted to increase their salaries 13 times since they set the tipped minimum wage at $2.13 in 1991. “Raising the minimum wage would help reverse the ongoing erosion of wages that has contributed significantly to the growing income inequality. It would also provide a modest stimulus to the entire economy, as increased wages would lead to increased consumer spending which would contribute to GDP growth and modest employment gains”, according to the website of Economic Policy Institute. ******* You think this is something that everyone would more or less agree on? A better standard of living for our own citizens? For those who are willing to work? Since the GOP is always talking about how everyone should be more responsible and pull themselves up by their bootstraps? We gotta be able to afford boots, and rent, and utilities and medicine and food! Have y’all noticed how little you get with $50 at the grocery store lately? I have. You want to buy healthy fruits and vegetables, but they’re expensive! The GOP in Congress wants to make big cuts in the federal “food stamp” nutrition program by separating it entirely from the farm bills, even though most farmers don’t agree with that agenda; and some GOP members don’t want the Affordable Care Act (or “Obama-Care”) funded either, though it is advancing regardless, and will prove to be a great blessing to the multitudes, as our rather-corrupt medical industry gets revamped. U.S. citizens shouldn’t have to go to Mexico or Canada to get less expensive medicine than they can purchase here! And we surely shouldn’t have to go to Taiwan or India for a necessary surgery because it costs far less, even with special treatments, for the insurance companies, than it would in our own country! I’ll stay here and die if I need a surgery and my insurance carrier doesn’t want to pay for it, cause I’m not going to some country where organ-theft is rampant, because our doctors want to charge exorbitant prices for their services. Enough is enough! We the People need to ALL stand together for a better country for ALL of us! Not just the rich and connected! I’m for sending less foreign aid to other countries and helping our own citizens (our own sons and daughters and grandkids and neighbors) to have a better standard of living. The GOP won’t work with Democrats to return interest rates to their previous level, so on 7/1 rates doubled. According to the New York Times recently, “Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama’s top priorities with their sharpest spending cuts in a generation, and a new push to hold government finances hostage unless the President’s signature health care is stripped of money this fall. They seek to slash environmental protections, and immigration-reform, and voter rights, and education, and basically anything that helps middle and lower class families, all in their efforts to protect tax breaks for their billionaire backers. When Congress comes back from recess we’ll see if the reckless budget cuts get implemented, or if there’s just more inaction. The GOP should really invest more energy in finding a real candidate for the 2016 election; a candidate that has a chance of winning would have to be more “middle-of-the-road” than their tea-party fanatics would embrace. But I’m pretty sure they won’t take that common-sense approach, and the way will be clear for the DEMs; besides, if Hillary is in the running….no-one else will really have a chance! She’s just the smartest choice, and the smartest woman for the job!! READY FOR HILLARY in 2016!
Aug 29 2013
Do you believe that the national minimum wage of $7.25 is enough to give Americans a decent standard of living?
“One of the ten demands from the March on Washington 50 years ago was for a national minimum wage act that would give all Americans a decent standard of living. Do you believe the national minimum wage of $7.25 accomplishes that demand?” No; even our state minimum wage of $8.25 is not sufficient; it’s just wrong for the United States to have a slave labor force! In the 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep George Miller (D-Calif) are supporting a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 “would increase the hourly minimum wage by 3 incremental increases of $.95 and then index it to inflation, so that as prices rise so would the minimum wage. It would also raise tipped employee’s wages from $2.13 an hour by increments of $.85 until it reaches 70 percent of the regular minimum wage”. Members of Congress have voted to increase their salaries 13 times since they set the tipped minimum wage at $2.13 in 1991. “Raising the minimum wage would help reverse the ongoing erosion of wages that has contributed significantly to the growing income inequality. It would also provide a modest stimulus to the entire economy, as increased wages would lead to increased consumer spending which would contribute to GDP growth and modest employment gains”, according to the website of Economic Policy Institute. ******* You think this is something that everyone would more or less agree on? A better standard of living for our own citizens? For those who are willing to work? Since the GOP is always talking about how everyone should be more responsible and pull themselves up by their bootstraps? We gotta be able to afford boots, and rent, and utilities and medicine and food! Have y’all noticed how little you get with $50 at the grocery store lately? I have. You want to buy healthy fruits and vegetables, but they’re expensive! The GOP in Congress wants to make big cuts in the federal “food stamp” nutrition program by separating it entirely from the farm bills, even though most farmers don’t agree with that agenda; and some GOP members don’t want the Affordable Care Act (or “Obama-Care”) funded either, though it is advancing regardless, and will prove to be a great blessing to the multitudes, as our rather-corrupt medical industry gets revamped. U.S. citizens shouldn’t have to go to Mexico or Canada to get less expensive medicine than they can purchase here! And we surely shouldn’t have to go to Taiwan or India for a necessary surgery because it costs far less, even with special treatments, for the insurance companies, than it would in our own country! I’ll stay here and die if I need a surgery and my insurance carrier doesn’t want to pay for it, cause I’m not going to some country where organ-theft is rampant, because our doctors want to charge exorbitant prices for their services. Enough is enough! We the People need to ALL stand together for a better country for ALL of us! Not just the rich and connected! I’m for sending less foreign aid to other countries and helping our own citizens (our own sons and daughters and grandkids and neighbors) to have a better standard of living. The GOP won’t work with Democrats to return interest rates to their previous level, so on 7/1 rates doubled. According to the New York Times recently, “Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama’s top priorities with their sharpest spending cuts in a generation, and a new push to hold government finances hostage unless the President’s signature health care is stripped of money this fall. They seek to slash environmental protections, and immigration-reform, and voter rights, and education, and basically anything that helps middle and lower class families, all in their efforts to protect tax breaks for their billionaire backers. When Congress comes back from recess we’ll see if the reckless budget cuts get implemented, or if there’s just more inaction. The GOP should really invest more energy in finding a real candidate for the 2016 election; a candidate that has a chance of winning would have to be more “middle-of-the-road” than their tea-party fanatics would embrace. But I’m pretty sure they won’t take that common-sense approach, and the way will be clear for the DEMs; besides, if Hillary is in the running….no-one else will really have a chance! She’s just the smartest choice, and the smartest woman for the job!! READY FOR HILLARY in 2016!
By spiritspeak • Community Roundtable, Politics 0