After the city of Birmingham, Alabama passed a law giving its citizens a $2.85 an hour increase in the minimum wage, republican Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed a bill prohibiting cities in Alabama from setting their own minimum wage. Unbeknownst to the people of Alabama, while Bentley was taking food out of the mouths of those living in poverty and those living around the corner from it, he was also giving four of his staffers a $70,000+--you read that right, $70,000+--per year raise, or almost an 80% increase.
For fuck's sake, how do these people even manage to get a single vote?
Or sleep at night?
Because you have to be one cold-hearted, cretinous son of a bitch to pull a bullshit stunt like that.
Peace,
emaycee
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
This is what happens when you vote republican, Part II
Once again, into another circle of hell that the republicans have created for the rest of us:
The citizens of Birmingham, Alabama, realizing the game is rigged for the working class of America, took the only step available to those of us caught in the cycle of month to month subsistence: they voted to increase the minimum wage in their city to $10.10 an hour (keep in mind, if one can find a full-time job, this comes to a whopping $21,000 a year.).
The republican state legislature of Alabama, unable to resist businesses they can fellate, are now moving forward with a bill that would prevent municipalities such as Birmingham from setting their own minimum wage, citing that it would make things too complicated to have numerous minimum wages in the state.
Leaving aside the fact that if Alabama republicans find multiple minimum wages rates too complicated it's a wonder they can tie their own fucking shoes. how in the hell can anyone vote for people who subvert democracy and actively seek to make average Americans lives considerably worse economically all the while claiming they are following the will of their voters?
What's the matter with Kansas? Try what's the matter with republican voters, period.
Peace,
emaycee
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