“I am sorry to inform you that my Minimum Wage bill was referred to the subcommittee BUSINESS AND LABOR (usually a way to kill it without voting on it). We do NOT have the votes to get the bill out of committee. But don’t get discouraged, this is only the beginning, we will continue to fight to give all families in Alabama a living wage.”
– Representative Patricia Todd
We as voters have to stay in touch with our legislators and tell them what we think is important. Change never happens quickly enough to suit me, but it does happen.
By the way, check out the story in today’s News business section about the local Circuit City workers who were fired for making too much money. I’d been following the story on a national level, but many people probably didn’t and I’m glad the News personalized the issue.
These workers are now out of jobs, insurance running out, basically treated like S**t. I hate to harm the workers who are left by never shopping at Circuit City again, but maybe as Best Buy gets bigger they can get jobs there.
Many of the “captains of industry” in this state and this country have no respect for the hard-working people who actually make the company profitable so the CEO can have a million-dollar house in what used to be a perfectly nice forest and is now a gated subdivision. It doesn’t hurt business when the workers are respected and paid for their work. Henry Ford made sure his workers were paid enough that they could buy cars – he recognized that your employees are also customers. ACIPCO is a local employer who treats its workers right.
Anyway, a minimum wage increase is important and I think if we keep up our pressure, it will happen sooner rather than later.
Great wealth redistribution. Great plan. Do you really think the CEO is going to suffer a pay cut when the minimum wage goes up? No. Just like every other one of these plans, the cost will be shuffled along to the consumer and hurt small businesses the most. Hey wait I got another great plan. How about a progressive tax plan that actually gives money back to the bottom of the wage earners and stifles personal initiative and motivation. Wait, we are already doing that. Gotta love liberals.
How about this, take some drive and motivation to pull people out of a minimum wage job. Maybe if more people took pride in hard work, education and self reliance this wouldn’t be such a huge issue.
Continuing to throw money at the problem of poverty only increases reliance on the government and fosters the growth of the problematic trends that cause many people that are in that position. Throwing money at poverty through the minimum wage and progressive only feeds the symptoms of poverty, but it does make for good campaign slogans and helps liberals sleep at night while they dream of a chicken in every pot. Too bad we have forgotten that the money issue is a result of the problems that get or lock people into poverty. Education and destructive behavior associated with different classes of people are two of the biggest reasons people remain in poverty. Too bad our public school system is terribly inept and more obsessed with political correctness than education. Good thing we established the whole national director of education thing. The government always fixes things perfectly.