Molly Ivins: The Politics of American Greed

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted July 11, 2006.

Anyone who doesn't think this is a country where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer needs to check the numbers.

I don't get it. What's the percentage in keeping the minimum wage at $5.15 an hour? After nine years? This is such an unnecessary and nasty Republican move. Congress has voted seven times to raise its own wages since last the minimum wage budged. Of course, Congress always raises its own salary in the dark of night, hoping no one will notice. But now it does the same with the minimum wage, quietly killing it.

Anyone who doesn't think this is a country where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer needs to check the numbers -- this is Bush country, where a rising tide lifts all yachts.