This Democratic Party front group set up by the AFL-CIO, Working America, sent out this letter (see below).
Please read it very closely.
In my opinion there is something very demented and perverse about this letter.
These Dumb Donkeys are living for a week on the current Federal Minimum
wage of $7.25 instead of trying to live on the $9.50 an hour they are
proposing.
This is very typical of the way these Democrats operate.
Why wouldn't they try living on their pathetic miserly proposed poverty
wage of $9.50 an hour? Wouldn't this be the real test since EVERYONE
already knows no one can live on $7.25?
Quite frankly, no one
can even live on $15.00 an hour without maxing out a few credit cards
until they have to declare bankruptcy.
We have gone from
hearing these politicians and their front groups talking about "Elect us
if you want the Minimum Wage to be a living wage" to "American needs a
raise" to "$9.50 will help" to what the Democrats in the Minnesota State
Senate propose instead of $9.50--- "$7.75 is better than $7.25."
These dishonest morons know full well their Democratic counterparts in
the Minnesota State Senate are proposing to reach a "compromise" at
$7.75--- and furthermore, they are well aware that Mark Dayton has met
with the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce (more commonly referred to as the
"Minnesota DFL Business Caucus because Democrats don't like people to
know they work behind closed doors with the Minnesota Chamber of
Commerce to give working people the shaft). Dayton and this "DFL
Business Caucus" have agreed the Minimum Wage should not be raised over
$8.00 an hour.
Of course this "liberal" billionaire Governor
Dayton whose inherited wealth was, and is, being derived almost
exclusively from the super-exploitation of Minimum Wage workers who are
more often then not subjected to the double-whammy of not just poverty
wages but wage theft.
Come on, really; did these Minnesota
State legislators have "to spread the word about how hard it really is
to live on $7.25 an hour?"
Don't they really have to "prove" that a human being can live on their proposed $9.50 an hour?
Slick as shit the way they pulled off this bait (a living wage) with
this switch (another poverty wage). Saying one thing to get votes; doing
another thing to keep the corporate bribes coming.
Bait and switch is illegal in the retail world; not in the world of politics.
Anyways, read this letter for yourself...
Alan,
We've learned a lot this past week.
Because of our participants across the state, we've helped to spread
the word about how hard it really is to live on $7.25 an hour.
We walked through some of the biggest hurdles minimum wage earners have
to face, and had real conversations with workers across Minnesota about
why a raise is important to them.
We've gotten close, and we need you to act now. Will you contact your state lawmakers now?
Alan, no one should have to skip a meal just to afford bus fare to
work. Raising the wage to $9.50 is a start that will help thousands of
Minnesota workers.
Can you do one final thing and make sure HR 92 passes the Senate?
It's been a great week, so thank you for participating. For taking
action, following along online and engaging with the Challenge in all
the ways that you did.
We can do this.
Thanks for all that you do,
Bree Halverson
State Director, Working Minnesota
P.S. Check out all of the photos and blog posts from the week.