Posted by Mike on August 31, 2009 To set the context, in 2007, the Republicans in the Senate were using all sorts of parliamentary maneuvers to prevent a bill from reaching the floor for a vote–the bill raised the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour (TEH SOCIALISMZ!!). It gets really good around 4:00.
Of course, I’m sure there are GOPniks who will claim that “Teddy didn’t want” a livable wage…
Yes, that the RepubiCANT party – obstructionists, racists and only for the wealthy.
And oddly, my first thought was of Teddy Roosevelt; who, as a progressive, probably would have supported one. However, minimum wage laws were new and state level experiments during his presidency; federal minimum wage was his cousin FDR’s handiwork circa 1938. And the Republican Party have pretty much disowned the Progressives since then….
It’s greed all the way down.
The Dems have controlled Congress most of the time for a long time. Why have they not indexed the minimum wage? There is no reason for it to remain a political football, subject to debate time and time again, because it has not kept up with inflation or average income.
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