Even monkeys fall from trees

I'm fairly ashamed of myself for not putting together two stories that I've posted on this week. First, there's the defeat of an increase in the minimum wage, which hasn't been changed in years.

Hot on the heels of that slap in the face of working-class Americans comes the Bankruptcy Bill, which will make it harder for them to make any economic headway byt stripping them of all rights in the case that they suffer from some unforeseen economic hardship (e.g., a debiliating stroke).

Think about it-- in the same week we've seen legislation that prevented people from earning more money, and legislation that prevented these subsistence-level workers from protection from predatory lenders. Keep it up, Republicans, and you'll see the revolution that a Freeper promised as per my post of yesterday. And that isn't pro-America.

I'll paraphrase the right-wing propagandists once again-- why do they hate America? The nation is best served when all Americans do better. Please stop working against that, GOP. Is it really a crime for credit card CEOs to earn just a few million a year (rather than, say, fifteen million) if it helps thousands of Americans to be productive members of society?