Democratic Blood Money (ThisCantBeHappening.net)

[marmar]

Friday, May 25, 2007

Democratic Blood Money

The Democrats, fresh from selling out the soldiers and marines in Iraq by handing the mad George Bush $120 billion to continue funding his war, are claiming victory.

Oh, they can’t hide the fact that they gave up on the war issue. But they’re quick to brag that they won a big one by cleverly including in the war funding supplemental bill a hike in the minimum wage, bringing the federal rate from the current $5.15/hour to $7.25.

But America’s long-suffering working poor better hold the champagne.

This bold stroke on their behalf by Congressional Democrats won’t happen right away. Although America’s lowest paid workers have been slaving away at $5.15 an hour since last September 1, they won’t get the first part of the new pay increase until the end of this summer, when it will go up a whopping 13 percent to $5.85 per hour (to put that in perspective, that’s $28/week more, less taxes, for someone working a 40-hour week). They’ll have to wait until around this time next year before they get another boost to $6.55 an hour, and they won’t get that full $7.25 an hour that the Democrats are hooting about until 2009.

And remember, we’re talking about blood money here.

This was a raise paid for in the blood of American servicepeople, and the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, many of them innocent children—something to think about this Memorial Day weekend.

Besides, that whole raise of 40 percent over two years will actually look a whole lot less by the time they get it, thanks to the actions of Bush and the Democratic Congress. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

[MH1]

1. Um, Dave Lindorff is an idiot.

He wrote a diary bashing Kerry (and Kerrycrats) for speaking out against the supplemental, and said Kerry needed to move aside and let Jim Webb (freshman senator who voted FOR funding the war) lead instead.

Bwahahaha. Made totally idiotic comments on his diary at dailykos, too.