Saturday, July 29, 2006

Congratulations for Chicago Living Wage

Congratulations for Chicago Living Wage

The City Council of the City of Chicago, Illinois, approved an ordinance that makes the City of Chicago the biggest city in the Nation to require big box retailers to pay a living wage.

It is too bad the federal senate voted against increasing the American wage on March 7, 2005.

Many cities and state governments are stepping up to the plate to increase the minimum wage in their city or state. This is because the current President Bush and the current Congress will not step up to the plate and pass the legislation for the president to sign or veto.



Prominent against the increase was:

Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), she was senior executive of the Red Cross, a charity that is supposed to assist people during disasters. Most of the people requiring assistance are the poor and middle class citizens and legal immigrants of America, not the wealthy. It seems incongruous that she can reject a necessity such as in increase in minimum wage and still hold her head up as the past senior executive of the Red Cross. Either she is a hyprocrite or the Red Cross organization is or both.

John McCain (R-AZ), our good buddy who has a really big halo over his head. And he wants to be President. Well, we now know where he stands in view of America's poor and middle class, because he rejected the minimum wage increase. His cavalier attitude for America's poor and middle class cannot be tolerated. He is still popular on various TV shows but if I see him, I turn him off, no matter what program he is on. McCain is probably America's biggest hyprocrite. I don't want to hear anything he has to say.

The Vote Counts: yeas 46
nays 49
Not Voting 5

The vote to pass was 1/2 of the vote. Only 4 more votes yea were necessary to pass.



On March 7, 2005, these senators did not vote.

Not Voting - 5
Baucus (D-MT)
Conrad (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Specter (R-PA)

If these senators voted yea, then the increase in the minimum wage would have passed. The citizens of the states where the senators did not vote should ask their senators, where were they? What were they thinking?

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