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Well, once again, the American people get the shaft.  While this austere body has raised its own
wages time and time again, American workers are still strung along at a rate of
$5.15 an hour.  Since the last increase
in 1997, Congress has raised its own rate from $133,600 all the way to $165,200
(a increase of 24 percent), not to mention the health benefits subsidized by
the American government.  At that same
time.  The buying power for that hourly
rate has decreased in buying power by 15%. 
This does not count the increase in health care premiums that have been
laid upon working families.

It's time to call on Congress to increase the minimum
wage.  While they are taking out their
billions for both NCPs and CPs, they are giving themselves fat pay increases
(and making sure that dead billionaires aren't burdened with taxes).  In fact, this partly isn't true.  Congress hasn't voted for a pay
increase...they don't need to.  It's
written into the law that their pay is increased according to inflation.

And this is not only the rant of somebody at the
bottom.  The chief of Wall Mart has
called for an increase in the minimum wage http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/25/news/fortune500/walmart_wage/  Businesses have taken tax cuts and contracts
while promising millions of jobs, only to stick the American public while they
run overseas with the good jobs, leaving Americans to go on the public
dole.  If they take the tax increases,
they can take a couple of minimum wage increases. 
You will hear the whinings on the right that an increase in the minimum wage will hurt entry level jobs and cause employers to shutter up.  But I cannot see how an increase of only $2/hour, when the wages have been held so artificially low, will cause much, if any, loss of jobs.  Furthermore, this has a fatal flaw in the arguement, somehow that companies will get the same rate and productivity out of lower paid workers than they will out of higher paid workers.  Cities that have increased the wages because Congress have not have not found that jobs left; if anything, they have found that the jobs that stay are quality jobs.
And if a job or two leaves.  Well, I'd quote Samuel Gomper in this one:  "if a company cannot aford to pay its workers a decent wage, maybe it shouldn't be in business in the first place."  Until a raise is passed. Congress should vote
to forego the next increase in their own wages. 
And if they don't, then the American people should tell them to hit the
streets and look for their next job.

 

NO PAY RAISE FOR THE PEOPLE = NO PAY RAISE FOR CONGRESS