Democrats Options

[knucklehead]

If you didn't read this on CNN yet, this is a new thread in response to that "Congress getting richer" thread I posted.

I'm not a democrat, but I do admire them for this and didn't expect it at all. I just hope they stick to it. After all the shit republicans have pulled recently, I don't even wanna be republican anymore. Doing things like this is what it's all about, whether they're really just vying for public opinion or not.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A week after the GOP-led Senate rejected an increase to the minimum wage, Senate Democrats on Tuesday vowed to block pay raises for members of Congress until the minimum wage is increased.

"We're going to do anything it takes to stop the congressional pay raise this year, and we're not going to settle for this year alone," Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said at a Capitol news conference.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/27/con...wage/index.html

[Billy]

Celebrity, stop making arguments based off information that is wrong.

You claim that raising minimum wage reduces employment. Here is some hard data that says otherwise:

Here is a table of data of states who, not only have higher than the $5.15 a dollar minimum wage, but a couple also increased their minimum wage during the years of 1997 and 1998.



Here is a table of data of states who use only the bare minimum wage and did not increase their minimum wage during the same year.



If you look at the unemployment levels of each of those states, it turns out that unemployment actually decreased even more, in fact, by 10 times more, in states with not only an increase in wage rate, but who also have higher minimum wages.
The argument that raising the minimum wage will decrease employment is BUNK.