A Shillelagh Over The Head

Begorrah! Little Mikey Fitzpatrick is in need of a lesson, I would say (this is a bit of an update to the “Waging” Fairness post from yesterday, pertaining to the national minimum wage legislation proposed by U.S. House Rep. George Miller of CA).

Fitzpatrick voted to kill a vote on raising the minimum wage. Fitzpatrick voted against even considering giving America's lowest wage workers a raise, by rejecting consideration of a bill that would gradually raise the minimum wage by $2.10 – from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour over two years. Civil Rights.org, 8/10/2005 . Roll Call #365. Additionally, on May 18, 2005, Rep. George Miller introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 over two years; the bill has over 100 co-sponsors - Mike Fitzpatrick is not one of them. H.R. 2429. The minimum wage has not been increased in eight years and 7.5 million American workers would directly benefit from a minimum wage increase. By contrast, members of Congress have raised their own pay seven times in the past eight years, including 2005.

To “he who does not wish to receive a hat tip,” many thanks once again (and I LOVE the secondary window opening up within the page - I'll try to do that some more...no, maybe not; popup blockers create havoc with that sort of thing).