PRO-LIFE WORKING POOR POWER

Minimum Wage: Tool of Political Gamesmanship OR TRUE Concern for the working class?

By Rob J King

I grew up as a Democrat largely due to the influence of my Father, a hard-working military man who went on to work as a self-employed (non-union) carpenter.

Although the Democratic Party was initially appealing to me due to its apparent ‘concern for the working class,’ as I became increasingly more Christianized in my thinking, I quickly found much of the Democratic Party to be quite abhorrent in their own thought processes . . .

First, although I had originally been persuaded by the Democratic propaganda concerning the Pro-Life issue, when I actually admitted that I was wrong in my prior belief, I could then see that little arms and little feet on supposed ‘fetal material’ were instead ACTUAL BABIES, and that for millions upon millions of women (some with PhD’s), the womb was no longer a safe haven for little children, but instead a place of state-protected maternal genocide. Forget Rwanda or the Holocaust, in the Democratic vision of the USA, baby murder was to be protected by legal and often illegal means. Anything to silence the Pro-Life Movement, including court sanctions, gag orders and denial of freedom of assembly by Pro-Life Protestors (a Constitutional Right by the way).

Second, although Democrats are supposedly the Party that ‘favors the working class,’ instead the Democrats will use issues such as minimum wage legislation (something recently signed into law by our good President George W. Bush) in order to simply gain votes rather than giving a rat’s arse about the ‘working poor.’ The proof of this is that a minimum wage law that was passed yearly and directly calibrated to the rate of inflation would make minimum wage a non-issue. Similar to military ‘cost of living’ salary increases, a minimum wage directly calibrated to the rate of inflation (3% per annum?) would effectively elevate the working class while producing no ill effects to the economy. Instead, the Republican Party, as it is often supported by ‘big business,’ will generally oppose minimum wage increases (which really are no increases at all, just the wage finally catching up with free market inflationary pressures filtering down finally to ‘labor costs’). Similarly, and to use the ‘rat’s arse’ argument again, the Democratic Party, as it is supported by the sizable financial coffers of media such as television and Hollywood billionaires, similarly could care less about the plight of Wendy’s workers in New Mexico making $5.15/hour (often who are not migrant workers nor ‘teenagers,’ but very often the working elderly, or just academic low achievers who must do manual labor). No, rather than ‘true concern’ for the working class, Democrats will simply manipulate the political game of minimum wage legislation to make it ‘look like’ they are the Party of the Working Class, when in actuality they are simply seeking to clutch onto political power at any costs.

Minimum wage directly calibrated to yearly inflation. A simple solution for maintaining U.S. standards of living into the next century . . .

Won’t you now join me in ‘rattling the sabers’ politically, taking up the Sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD of GOD and forcing BOTH Democrats and Republicans to embody the JESUS-ETHIC?

PRO-LIFE, PRO-WORKING CLASS, PRO-MILITARY for WORLD PEACE!

Shalom,
Rob J King, Pro-Life Advocate of the Working Poor