NANCY PELOSI, is there any body in your family working on minimum wage ? don't u know $ 5.15 is not enough ?
929907
Raising the minimum wage causes many minimum wagers to lose their jobs. Better off with 5.15 and working your way up to a better job.
420758
Listen, you ignorant republican. I am a teacher in inner-city Philadelphia. I am having a hard time making ends meet. I have NO children, I could not pay off a loan (I am paying off college loans.) What's your next suggestion, GW?
832897
Even most conservatives I know realize that minimum wage is pretty much ALREADY raised.  To many conservatives, its nothing more than an ideological issue for them to pretend it would "cause unemployment, inflation" etc when largely it would do very little considering most employers already ignore the minimum wage.\n\nHowever, when it is raised, and it will be, it needs to be indexed so that it doesn't fall behind like it did this time.  While the minimum wage did get adjusted by economics for most people, its taken far too long and people suffered in poverty needlessly because Congress just didn't give a ****.\n\nAs for the geologist cracks, Republicans are naturally condescending.  If you don't support them, you are a do-nothing welfare loser.  If you do, you can be a drug addict, Rush Limbaugh, or both...and they will praise you!
467998
Most of the world lives on less than 2 dollars a day. So a immigrant from Mexico can send money back and give an ok life to his or her family.  The minimum wage for US citizens is not a livable wage.  Thus, that's why people are not going to do these jobs.  You can't own a house, have a car, and have a wife and kids on minimum wage, that's why.  Secondly, undocumented people don't get many social services.  What's taking money away from our schools and other things is this war which cost 400 billion dollars.  If undocumented people would be taking this from our economy, that would be about $33,000 each person (12 million undocumented people).  Let me just tell you, you wouldn't see them standing by the Home Depot looking for any type of work then.
191200
how low can we go? Bush and Cheney are monsters. How much more can the national debt soar? How many lies can he tell?  Is there another oil-rich country that we can invade? Is Osama Bin Laden still virtually unscathed from his horrendous attack on our country? How many of our young people are going to Iraq? How many will come home? How much richer can the rich get? How much poorer can the poor get? It is a sad state of affairs when our people are out priced at the gas pumps, and it is only going to get worse. These are tip of the iceberg questions, but suffice it to say that there is not a number that goes low enough. He will spend his remaining tenure in office seeing just how much his constituency can stand before reaching point break. I am already there, but I can proudly say that I did not vote for this monster, or for his ass clown father.
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Thats an emphatic hell no. When Clinton left office, I actually had a few dollars to spend, 401 accounts were soaring, and the people in this town weren't worried about their job security. Now I never have an extra dollar, 401K earnings are at a standstill, and I see stuff closing every day somewhere. Now it costs a mint to fill up my car. And heat my house. Everywhere I look the cost of living keeps spiraling, not rising, mind you, SPIRALING. But somehow, wages never increase. Instead of being able to fuss about your job and how the company treats you like dirt, now we have to take it because you're lucky to even have a job. And some jobs are being affected by federal budget cuts. No, its not better, it's worse.
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Because this is how Democrats think: \n\nNancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton announce that every family will receive a $500 annual rebate in the form of a check because they want to fight poverty.  The looneys on the left thunderously applaud and wet their pants.  \n\nHowever, someone with some sense asks:  Where is that money coming from?  Well, says Hillary and Nancy, you will have to pay $1000 extra in taxes so that we can then process it at the federal level, take our cut, waste it in bureaucracy, and then we magnamously send you a check for $500.  See, we care about you.   \n\nThe crows breaks into a cheering frenzy.\n\nThe sensible person says:  Wouldn't it have been better for me to have kept my $1000 to begin with?\n\nThe sensible men is beaten by the angry mob.
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It's a little late to be talking about school when she needs gas tomorrow?\n\nThese people don't understand how it is... it's not always so easy to just "make more money"... hahaha... but I suspect they will learn that soon enough on their own...\n\nI don't think the government cares... so we should all vote...
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Yea, they voted down the minimum wage increase, which hasn't been raised in a decade, and effectively gives a person $466.00 a month to "live" on, while they get a $3,400 raise. Nice of them since almost all are millionaires!\n\nAnd Congress wants to give more of their power away\nand give bush a line item veto!! ARE THEY NUTS??\n\nWhy do we need a Congress? Bush can submit his own budget and sign it.\n\nCan you imagine the thought of being a state that voted against Bush??
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~Let's see.  We work now until late may before we make a nickel for ourselves (duh, the rest going for taxes)  You're right.  50% is too much.  Let's keep it at our 40.5%.  Oops.  Forgot sales tax, tobacco tax, liquor tax, gas tax, ad nausuem.  We're paying close to 60%.  Bring on the warlords.  Sounds cheaper.
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Since 1997 the minimum wage has remained the same...despite rising costs of EVERYTHING!  Yet congress o.k.'d a raise for themselves.........Aren't republicans repulsive?
728163
First of all the wages of people in America are down compared to the cost of living. Now when two parents have to work to make ends meet and take their children to daycare and be away from their mom is destroying America a piece at a time. Should there be a minimum wage? I guess because of the greedy nature of these ceo's, there has to be. Overall it comes down to paying a man what he is worth. Companies should not rely on overhead profit margins and rely on the fact that they are giving jobs to americans. If we would quit paying sport figures so much money, and quit advertising on spots that cost two million for thirty seconds, maybe we could bring the price down of the product we sell. Congress gives themselves a raise every year and I personally get one every two years after begging the cheap boss that I have. Whose fault is this, our fault for taking it up the butt and not standing up for what is right. It won't be too long that we will be speaking spanish, all the big industries will be overseas, and we will work in restaurants and hospitals, and live in apartments. I support the troops and support the idea of democracy, but can anyone prove that we are not going backwards instead of forwards. Pay a man what he is worth, moms, stay at home if you can and be with your children, children eduacate yourself and be more than normal person. I am not bashing the democrats or republicans because we know what they are, politicians. (poli) prefix meaning many (tics) blood sucking parasites. I am blaming all of us, we fought a war for less than what they are doing to us now.
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It was the Senate, not Congress.  S.Amdt. 4322 to S. 2766\n\nAll Republicans except for 8 (4 of whom are up for re-election) voted down on it. All Democrats voted for it. Contrary to popular belief, most minimum wage workers are adults and a majority of them are women.\n\nRemarkably, Congress has raised their own pay seven times (over $30,000) since the last time they raised the pay of minimum wage workers.\n\nNays:\nAlexander (R-TN)\nAllard (R-CO)\nAllen (R-VA)\nBennett (R-UT)\nBond (R-MO)\nBrownback (R-KS)\nBunning (R-KY)\nBurns (R-MT)\nBurr (R-NC)\nChambliss (R-GA)\nCoburn (R-OK)\nCochran (R-MS)\nCornyn (R-TX)\nCraig (R-ID)\nCrapo (R-ID)\nDeMint (R-SC)\n Dole (R-NC)\nDomenici (R-NM)\nEnsign (R-NV)\nEnzi (R-WY)\nFrist (R-TN)\nGraham (R-SC)\nGrassley (R-IA)\nGregg (R-NH)\nHagel (R-NE)\nHatch (R-UT)\nHutchison (R-TX)\nInhofe (R-OK)\nIsakson (R-GA)\nKyl (R-AZ)\nLott (R-MS)\nMartinez (R-FL)\n McCain (R-AZ)\nMcConnell (R-KY)\nMurkowski (R-AK)\nRoberts (R-KS)\nSantorum (R-PA)\nSessions (R-AL)\nSmith (R-OR)\nStevens (R-AK)\nSununu (R-NH)\nTalent (R-MO)\nThomas (R-WY)\nThune (R-SD)\nVitter (R-LA)\nVoinovich (R-OH)
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Not good, $5.15 an hour is ridiculous. No one could live on that small amount of money.
1140045
If you get any extra after paying for all that can you send me some???   I am a widow , barely making it, broke too.  I DO WORK tho, make just a quarter more than minimum wage.  Not  enough!!!
476613
One of the greatest ludicracices ever commited, was allowing congress to set their own pay scale.  Not even the President can do that.  It really makes you see the dark side of politics when these guys get more money to bicker all day long, while the rest of us work to produce something that people need or want.
1007408
People need to understand the government is not really on your side, both Republicans and Democrats. They take you money no matter what you think of the job they are doing. Businesses on the other hand must please you, the customer, or they will go out of existance. Thats why the government needs to stay out of business affairs, the companys will pay workers whatever the job they are doing is really worth. This keeps the cost to us consumers down. If we force businesses to pay people more for the same amount of work, it will force them to fire the low wage employees as well as make their products cost more. So instead of increasing the minimum wage, I believe we should get rid of it completely.