RW attacks Kennedy min. wage [View All]

"Yesterday, Pamela wrote about Senator Kennedy’s continuing effort to increase the minimum wage in this country, which is long overdue. Right wing groups were quick to respond, with the biggest load of double-talk that you can imagine. They have been playing this do-si-do dance with the poor for years, I’ve run across speeches and reports just like this one, repeatedly. You kind of have to start at the end, to realize the insanity of what they’re saying.

"If the goal of Congress is to help low-income working families, then raising the minimum wage is a poorly targeted and ineffective way of doing so," said EPI's director of research, Craig Garthwaite.

Because, you see, only 15% of minimum wage earners are single parents with children. The 21% who live in a dual earner household are apparently married to CEO’s and just can’t resist the allure of the stench of the grease trap at McDonald’s. And the 40% who live with a parent or relative, apparently will have no trouble saving up that $200 a week for a $15-$45,000 a year college education.

So none of these people really need an increase in the minimum wage, they’re living high on the hog already..."

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp

These people are insane, but this is what they do. Scream about social programs and then turn around and use them to deny the need for minimum wage increases. Links are in blog post, they're just scum.