Double Standard: Government Denies Minimum Wage Increase In Order to Raise its Salary
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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The all mighty and all knowing Congress had decided in previous days that an increase in minimum wage wasn't a profitable idea for the time and put the concept aside because it didn't think that Americans would want it. After all, it knows what Americans want because Americans elected them to think for them."The whole reason we have elected officials is so that we don't have to think..." ~ Homer Simpson
Now, Congress has decided that the savings that they gain from this move is more than enough to justify their own pay raise at the expense of the taxpayer. After all, Congress isn't earning enough and the backs of the average American aren't quite broke yet. Those poor Congressmen are suffering because the Lobbyist can't line their pockets as well any more following the Abernoff scandal...
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