Priorities

(Via AFL CIO Working Families Network)

Congress has not increased the minimum wage since 1997, meaning the real earnings of workers at the bottom of the pay scale have dropped dramatically. So what is Congress doing to address this crisis?

Giving themselves a pay raise. Again.

Since the last minimum wage increase, members of Congress have increased their own pay several times, for a total increase of $31,600 per year. That's an increase of $31,600. Meanwhile, workers in minimum wage jobs earn a total of just $10,700 a year.

Does that sound like a Congress that has its priorities straight?

As Congress puts itself further and further away from the income level of working families, how can they relate to the struggles of the majority of their constituents? Of course, this assumes that those "servants" of the people have some desire to understand the people they are supposed to be serving. And frankly, Scarlet, they don't give a damn.