Posted on 01/12/2007 7:14:45 AM PST by off-roader
Heard on the radio this morning that the federal minimum wage increase the house passed affects every state and territory except American Somoa. The largest employer on American Somoa is StarKist tuna. Their home office is in Nancy Pelosi's district. How could she have over looked this injustice on the poor people of American Somoa. Or was she taking care of big business in her backyard?
Par for the course.
"The reason the Democrats give is that Samoa's economy is too weak to handle the wage increase."
I read this morning that the minimum wage in American Samoa is $3.60 per hour! You would have least thought that the Dems would have raised it to the current federal 'standards'....(rolling eyes)
I just wrote to my Senators urging them to vote against the Minimum Wage Bill, but also asked them to add an amendment which would include American Samoa in this increase making them aware of the StarKist information.
The U.S. minimum wage laws have never applied in American Samoa, the minimum is set by the Department of Labor.
What are the amount of political donations to Nancy from StarKist?
Tuna in for more information on this fishy story.
You would be correct about the laws not applying to America Samoa in the past, but they never applied to the Mariannas islands before, either. Now, the Dems have added the Mariannas Islands, but excluded Samoa.
This is crooked politics, end of story, let's not try to dance around it, please.
We need to stop buying Starkist Tuna.
The MSM won't say anything bad about MA Pelosi. Can't say anything bad about a nursing grandma.
Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion wineries.
UFW members need not apply at the Pelosi family vineyards.
Which makes Pelosi's steadfast opposition to any attempts to enhance border security and stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. all the more interesting since she seems to be among those rich employers who financially benefit from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor.
Her husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers): Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in Congress, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
LOL. Thank you.
To the fish mongers of Somoa, Peel-o_slowly cause you ain't gettin' wage abaitment!
Or the California Truckers.
:O)
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>>Some Republicans who voted in favor of the minimum-wage bill were particularly irritated to learn yesterday -- after their vote -- that the legislation did not include American Samoa.
I'm irritated to learn our idiot Congresscritters voted for this WITHOUT READING IT, or more importantly, voting for it WITHOUT TAX BREAKS for small businesses.
Apparently this congress will be just as ethical as Billy's administration!
I thought the 49ers were already hazardous?
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