[BarTopDancer]

Minimum wage is a catch 22. Last time it was raised I was running a Baskin Robbins. The day the wage went up so did the prices. There was no reason for the owner to raise the prices on everything by the difference in the wages, but he did, other businesses did too and the difference is still there. Now you're earning $6.75/hr instead of $6.25/hr but that $1.50 scoop of ice cream now costs $2.00.

The amount of money Congress makes makes me sick. They won't be hurting if they don't receive that $3k/yr payraise. Simple math. If only the Senators received a $3k/yr payraise that is $300,000 that could go to after school programs, real programs to get the poor on their feet rather than these quasi programs that just set them up for failure. It could go towards the national debt, it could go into schools. If the House only has 400 members (I know it's more but for simple math sake we'll go with 400), and the Houe and Congress both don't get the pay raise that means it's $2,100,000 that could go into other programs.

They don't need the pay raise. Other places could use that money more.