Senate GOP Leadership Tries To Eliminate Federal Minimum Wage

[donheld]

Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), evidently convinced that he was beating a dead horse by continuing his quest to ban flag-burning and discriminate against gay people, announced this month that he would not seek reelection in 2008 and the thought of having so little time left to screw the working poor from a comfy U.S. Senate seat must have just been eating him alive.

Allard, who has voted against a minimum wage increase more often than Fox News smears Barack Obama, went for broke this week and introduced a bill that would have eliminated the Federal Minimum Wage entirely and left the wage rate for the lowest-paid workers to each state.

In Kansas, this would mean that workers would revert to the state-mandated minimum wage of $2.65 per hour, which is currently superseded by the federal minimum of $5.15.

"In its current form, the bill attempts to blindly blanket the Nation with a new Federal minimum wage without regard to unique economic conditions of each individual State," said Allard in fighting the proposed $2.10 increase in the federal minimum wage. "Less Government intervention, at all levels, enables the private sector to attract, recruit, and retain the best possible employees and reward increased productivity and responsibility with higher compensation."


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5054

He's such an Asshole.

[izzie]

1. Same old stuff I head in the '50's.

This type guys who believe in laissez faire and no govt. would sell off the Capital for condo's I am sure.

[donheld]

2. Funny, He's "laissez faire and no govt" until it gets to the

bedroom :grr:

[liberaldemocrat7]

3. Hooverite politician

These Rapeublicans harken back to the 1920's with Hoover at the helm.

[izzie]

8. We should pit them on am island with the 25 percent who still

love them. Or say they do.

[nealmhughes]

4. Economic Darwinism. I did something rare last night and listened to rightwing talk radio.

It was a channel out of Cullman/Birmingham, Alabama whose motto was "A God and Country Station." I was shocked it came in over the mountains to the Tennessee Valley outside of Huntsville, but it did. One of the djs actually said, "I don't care if I have to step over the bodies outside the grocery stores where the beggars have died of starvation, the able bodied on welfare with their food stamps and Medicare and Section 8 would all be digging ditches and starving when I cut it off for 'em."

After hearing that garbage, I was actually enthralled with the program. I had never heard such in my life, never having listened to Lush Rimball or whatever the skag addict's name is, or Laura or any of them, don't get Foxnews on my TV and am quite happy not getting them. I need to write an essay on the meme of "welfare queens in Cadillacs" and "lazy able bodied who won't work" when the facts fly in the face of reality, it is more intellectually dishonesty disguising laissez-faire with what it is: sheer unadulterated greed and class warfare with the generals wrapped in a flag and wielding a cross as a weapon.

[salin]

5. Given his small govt stand, perhaps he should forgo

his big salary and accept only the min wage for DC. He could start a movement among law-makers "doing are part to shrink wasteful govt spending". :shrug:

[deepthought42]

6. $2.65/hour!?

You're fucking kidding me! I don't care what the "unique economic conditions" are for Kansas or any other state...who honestly believes anyone could support themselves (and their families) on $2.65/hour??? :grr:

[The Anti-Neo Con]

7. Eliminating the Federal min. wage would equal...

legalizing slavery again. That is a big wet dream of far-right extremeists.

[Kurovski]

9. Kick.