2 QUOTES INSPIRED BY LABOR DAY
"Light travels faster than sound, so some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak."
- - Brian Williams
"American workers are under attack by an anti-worker president who didn't even win the election for the office he holds".
- - Gerald McEntee, President, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
RHINO HERE:
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. reminded me today on The Donahue MSNBC show...
http://www.msnbc.com/news/DONAHUE_Front.asp
...that on September 10, 2001, Congress couldn't find enough money to adequately fund inner city schools, or enough to provide basic medical care nor even the most basic shelter for all American citizens. Yet on September 12, they somehow came up with 40 BILLION dollars to, as he put it, "chase down a cave man", which by the way, they haven't yet.
Meanwhile, Congress has also not been able to muster enough votes to legislate a minimum wage for workers, adequate to pay rent in most cities in the country. The current U.S. minimum wage comes from legislation that was enacted some 40 years ago with only miniscule raises to compensate, not for the real rise in cost of living, but only for the supposed rise in the cost of groceries.
And then there's shrub & company's ongoing assaults on organized labor. For more on this, click the link below to read 2 labor leaders shrub bashing; Gerald McEntee, the fiery president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=020902~clg.asp
It seems reasonable, in the richest country in the history of the planet, that anyone working 40 hours a week, should be making enough to pay for basic rent and groceries. Unfortunately, it ain't so. To learn about what's become known as the "Living Wage" movement, see the links below.
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