{"id":7746,"date":"2006-06-21T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2006-06-21T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T18:01:21","slug":"america-still-deserves-a-raise-but-it-wont-get-one-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/america-still-deserves-a-raise-but-it-wont-get-one-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"America still deserves a raise &#8212; but it won&#8217;t get one this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it was coming, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/21\/AR2006062100928.html\">it&#8217;s disappointing anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a proposal pushed by Democrats to [tag]raise[\/tag] the federal [tag]minimum wage[\/tag] in increments from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour by January 1, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Edward [tag]Kennedy[\/tag], a Massachusetts Democrat, unsuccessfully tried to attach the proposal raising the wage for the first time since 1997 to a defense authorization bill that is expected to be passed by the Senate soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The final vote was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&#038;session=2&#038;vote=00179\">52 to 46<\/a> in favor of the increase, but it needed 60. Eight Republicans joined the Dems on this &#8212; Chafee (R-RI), Coleman (R-MN), Collins (R-ME), DeWine (R-OH), Lugar (R-IN), Snowe (R-ME), Specter (R-PA), Warner (R-VA) &#8212; five of whom are up for re-election this year.<\/p>\n<p>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/002474.html\">Billmon summarized<\/a> how I&#8217;m feeling about this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have to admit, even I didn&#8217;t think the political pimps in control of our national whorehouse would have the gall to sneak through a pay raise for themselves, then turn around a week later and kill the first increase in the minimum wage in almost ten years. Even I wouldn&#8217;t have imagined they would think they could get away with it. Not in an election year. I guess it&#8217;s their way of showing Tom DeLay they don&#8217;t <i>need<\/i> him around to act like a pen full of swine with a taste for eating their own feces. The Bug Man may be gone, but his pestilence remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Dems take back Congress, this increase will be one of the first bills considered. It will pass both chambers and, I have a hunch, Bush wouln&#8217;t have the nerve to veto it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it was coming, but it&#8217;s disappointing anyway. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a proposal pushed by Democrats to [tag]raise[\/tag] the federal [tag]minimum wage[\/tag] in increments from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour by January 1, 2009. Sen. Edward [tag]Kennedy[\/tag], a Massachusetts Democrat, unsuccessfully tried to attach the proposal raising the wage for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}