Pelosi Urges Congress to Act On MLK’s Agenda By Making the Minimum Wage a Living Wage

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By: Sarah JonesAug. 24th, 2013more from Sarah Jones



The Democratic minority leader of the House stoked up the crowd with her speech. Pelosi urged Congress to act on MLK’s agenda by saying, “He would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda. By realizing the dream. By making the minimum wage a living wage. By having not just family and medical leave, but having paid sick leave for our workers. By having quality affordable childcare so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and our society.”

Democrats are on the warpath, pressing their advantage with hard sells of the Democratic agenda. Instead of apologizing for the liberal agenda, Democrats are embracing it, owning it, claiming it and framing it properly so that they can demand why everyone isn’t on board with it. Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Steve Beshear owned the ObamaCare fight in public, socking it to a rather stunned Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.

Republicans are right to worry about 2014, because it does not look like it’s going to be a repeat of 2010. In 2010, Democrats were demoralized by the perpetually hating on Obama fringe. It’s 2013 now, and Democrats are well aware that President Obama is not Superman, and is far from perfect. (Newsflash: They never thought he was perfect. Seriously.)

They also know that the President and his party are fighting hard for equal rights, at a time when Republicans have made it clear that they stand for stealing liberty from minorities, women, and gay people.

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/24/pelosi-urges-congress-act-mlks-agenda-making-minimum-wage-living-wage.html

not sure what to make of the commentator, but I like what Speaker Pelosi is saying.

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1. Thank you, Nancy!

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2. Minimum wage should be a living wage, and should either either tied to the actual cost of living, or

else otherwise constitutionally mandated. Congress has no impetus whatsoever to do the right thing, and the fight gets tiring. We need to put this to bed, once and for all. I suggest a Constitutional Amendment that ties minimum wage to an actual living wage, and the actual cost of living is a good place to start. Minimum wage should be enough for a person to work one full-time job and pay for basic housing, food, and expenses. No one should have to work two or more jobs to survive. No family with two adults working full-time should have to struggle to put food on the table for their children.

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3. Yes!