Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage

[CountAllVotes]

WHEN WILL THE GREED EVER STOP? !!!!

God knows how I miss Senator Kennedy. JFK would have been 100 years old on May 29, 2017 ...

[Chasstev365]

1. The Last of a Dying Breed!

I miss him too!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. When exactly was this?

The current Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25/hour, exactly what was being proposed here. And that amount took effect in 2009. Eight years ago.

I worked for minimum wage back when it was $1.25-$1.60/hour, when that was worth around ten bucks per hour in current purchasing value. I was able to support myself decently, although I was never going to get very far ahead. Starting in 1969 I started making more than minimum wage.

I currently live in Santa Fe, NM, which has a living wage ordinance, and currently it's a bit above $11/hour. A couple of years ago I answered an ad for a temp job, and when it was offered to me, I was asked what wage I expected. Wasn't prepared for that question, so I fell back on saying that the current wage here in Santa Fe would be just fine with me. When I got my first paycheck, I saw that they were paying me above that, something around $11.50/hour. This was a small, family run business, and I think very highly of them, both for how well they paid and how well I was treated when I worked for them.

[CountAllVotes]

4. Sometime before 2007

Last edited Sun Jun 4, 2017, 01:00 PM - Edit history (3)

The 1996 amendments increased the minimum wage to $4.75 an hour on October 1, 1996, and to $5.15 an hour on September 1, 1997. The amendments also established a youth sub minimum wage of $4.25 an hour for newly hired employees under age 20 during their first 90 consecutive calendar days after being hired by their employer; revised the tip credit provisions to allow employers to pay qualifying tipped employees no less than $2.13 per hour if they received the remainder of the statutory minimum wage in tips; set the hourly compensation test for qualifying computer related professional employees at $27.63 an hour; and amended the Portal-to-Portal Act to allow employers and employees to agree on the use of employer provided vehicles for commuting to and from work, at the beginning and end of the work day, without counting the commuting time as compensable working time if certain conditions are met.

The 2007 amendments increased the minimum wage to $5.85 per hour effective July 24, 2007; $6.55 per hour effective July 24, 2008; and $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. A separate provision of the bill brings about phased increases to the minimum wages in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and in American Samoa, with the goal of bringing the minimum wages in those locations up to the general federal minimum wage over a number of years.

Read more here: https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/coverage.htm

This whole thing sounds so familiar doesn't it? Tax breaks for wealthy corporations and the rich. Social Security being messed around with.

Everything but increasing the minimum wage from $5.15/hr. to where it finally got it up to $5.85 in 2007, etc.

What is the price that YOU want from these working men and women? HOW MANY BILLIONS MORE DO THEY WANT?!!

Ted Kennedy was known as the Lion of the Senate and rightfully so!

May the great Senator Rest In Peace!!

[Honeycombe8]

3. His passing was a huge loss to the Democratic Party. There has been no one to take his place.

He was unique. A fighter who didn't mince words, and yet he could get along with Republicans. An expert politician.

No one to fill his shoes.

[CountAllVotes]

5. No one to fill his shoes.

Truth.

Between the loss of Sen. Kennedy AND Sen. Byrd, the Democratic party is simply not the same. Are there no more great orators left in the party? If so, where are they?

We need more of people like them to serve!

Still sad as hell about this some 8 years later!

[Plucketeer]

6. HOLY SMOKES!!!!

This fella had a D next to his name??? Nah! I've only seen ONE other (D)-type that breathed fire like this - and he embarrassed himself into oblivion thru stupid deeds in his private life.

Today's "fighters" throw verbal Nerf balls when they get really hot 'n bothered! (of course, there's that nigglesome (I)-guy, but he ain't one of us)

[Stuart G]

7. According to some quick research ...sometime in 2007...nt