Saturday, June 24, 2006

Represent this!

When I think of this marriage amendment Bush tried to pass, I'm wonder something. Maybe the reason it hasn't been brought up earlier, is that everyone has the decency to not bring it up.
Well, I don't.
If a marriage is between a man and a woman, then, technically, a man who has a sex change to become a woman can marry a man and it's perfectly okay. Right? Or what about a woman who has changed to a man can marry another woman. Right?
I don't know. Would this be a loophole people could use if this was ever amended to the Constitution.
Again, Congress doesn't want to wage minimum wage, because it might cut jobs. As if people are living high on the hog right now at $5.15 an hour, which is $206 a week if you're fortunate to work 40 hours and most people aren't for insurance reasons. That would be about $10,000 a year, before taxes.
Maybe if those unions hadn't endorsed Kerry in 2004, it could have been raised. We can't have our union boys make just twice as much as minimum wage can we, especially for pedestrian jobs on assembly lines. People making $6 an hour at Wal-mart do more work than some member of the UAW who puts the tires on cars.
You know what cuts jobs, undocumented workers?
If the minimum wage is raised, then the amount of money that can be taken out for Medicare and Social Security can be raised and that solves that problem. The reason social security is in such a problem that really isn't a problem right now is because too the old farts on it hired undocumented workers and paid cash. Therefore, no social security has been paid in.
It's nice to know that the 535 people we elected to run our government are looking out for us where it really matters.

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