$100 Billion on the war? No problem. $4 billion on food stamps? Can't afford that!

[Telly Savalas]

It's good to know they've got their priorities straight.

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/574927.html

[rucky]

1. When does the new minimum wage kick in?

Hopefully the corporate world will kick in for some of that shortfall, and at least some of the working poor can be lifted out of their decades-long screw-job.

Now we need to get all the war profiteers to pay for their own goddamn war. It's nice to know there's that kind of money available for something. Maybe that can help push a single-payer healthcare plan.

Either way, it's completely fucked up as it stands.

[Lobster Martini]

3. Answer to the minimum wage question

Question: When does the new minimum wage kick in?
Answer:

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:

`(1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than--

`(A) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007;

`(B) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and

`(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day;'.

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

[rucky]

4. You mean there's a --- TIMETABLE -- attached to it?!

I don't see how we can fight the war on poverty on an artificial timetable. We need the money NOW.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. But the rich need so much more

they are the 'betters' you know, and the rest of us are so much sludge, to be used when useful, then thrown away to be forgotten and starved. This is the Gilded Age mentality that the neocons are so nostalgic about. Trouble is, at least those robber barons for the most part earned their money, however ruthlessly, while today's wealthy are often the decayed spawn of old money--Bush being a case in point.

[rucky]

5. Not to worry. It'll trickle down...

[liberal renegade]

8. We pee on them

but they shit on us! It's time to turn it around....

[spanone]

6. Ain't that America? God loves war, hates poor people.

[rasputin1952]

7. Let's not forget that Iraqi's have Universal Health Care supported

by the US taxpayer...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Try getting this into the average person's brain

lie down roll over do what Bush says