Sunday, January 07, 2007

Shame without bouundaries

In reports published in 2000 and earlier the Economic Policy Institute has made it clear in a very careful study that a minimum wage needed to be $20 an hour to rent a modest 2 bedroom apartment and to pay for basic necessities. This did NOT include health care, nor education, nor travel nor any other kind of so-called "luxury."

I am sick to near death of all the lies, meaningless arguments, and public relations spins on health care. So, spare me campaigns that argue for an insulting and insufficient $7.25 a hour while CEO's walk off with billions of dollars even when their companies lose money - off the backs of workers, off the backs of the unemployed, and unpaid workers, and often off the backs of the American public in tax breaks and giveaways.

Shame!

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