What would you consider a "living wage", in the current economy?

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41. I wrote on this OVER THREE YEARS AGO...isn't anyone listening??

Rhetorical question. Our legislators in Congress are as feckless as masturbating Bushwackers.

From my blog archive: DEPRESSION: ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CAUSED BY rEPUBLICANS

THE ANSWER:

1. Nationalize all industries over 50 employees. Eliminate stockholder boards, install boards that have greater emphasis on needs of people, not the greed of the unproductive.

2. Create a maximum tax, immediately, of all individuals, taxing them 100% when they make 10 million dollars. Create a tax rate of 70%, immediately, for all those who make more than 1 million dollars. Create a tax rate of 50%, effecitve immediately, for all those who make $150,000 or more annually. Up the state tax rates by a similar percentage.

3. Immediately mandate rules for officials. NO private planes, NO perks not available at reasonable cost to their lowliest employee.

4. Immediate minimum wage hike to at least $10 hour, indexed higher for more expensive areas (NY, for instance, would be $15 or so). This will stimulate the local economies, which are key.

5. Eliminate all lobbyists. Period. ONLY citizens can petition their representatives, and then each citizen should NEVER have more access than ANY OTHER CITIZEN.

This is just for starters. This can be done with NO problem if we have a 60-seat democratic majority in the senate.

FINALLY... start the process to decertify financing, and ultimately make illegal, the existence of the republican party through RICO statues.

MAKE IT SO!

Now, I wrote this in 2008 shortly after Barack Obama won the election. So full of promise back then, but we weren't prepared against the republican nuclear attack (though I was).

The more things change the more they stay the same. To that end, BAN THE FREAKIN' rEPUBLICAN PARTY ALREADY!!!