February 02, 2011 02:15 AM UTC

A Kinder, Gentler Colorado Republican

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• by: Mike Collins

Sorry, I can not provide the Sunday Denver Post link to “Colorado Votes” the section that shows how the Colorado Delegation voted last week.  I did however scan it for perpetuity.

The sub heading was “Sending U.S. Jobs Abroad”

Sending U.S. Jobs Abroad

For: 184/ Against: 242

Members Defeated a Democrat-

ic bid to use H Res 38 (Above) as

a vehicle to curb the practice of

U.S. firms sending jobs over-

seas.  A yes vote was to deny fed-

eral contracts to any company

that the Department of Labor

finds to be outsourcing jobs.

Voting yes: All Colorado Democrats

Voting no: All Colo. Republicans

What’s more patriotic to a Republican than lying?  Corporate welfare?  Wars for resources?  Groveling at the feet of their corporate masters?  No, it’s their anti-labor practices and the capability to entice people to vote rich and live poor.  In places that need unions the most, (The Deep South) where without regard to race, creed or religion, they are the most exploited workers in the United States, workers are taught and believe that “union” is another word for communism.  To them, check off dues are a fate worse than paying for gloves, steel toed shoes and uniforms.  They are not stupid, they are a product of a system that demands only functional illiteracy, stop, go, yield, red, green, yellow, nothing more.  For a political group that claims religious conviction, they are without a doubt miserable failures at the most hard fast rule of all religion, liberal philosophy, popular literature and art.  They may be the most sordid villains ever, not because of the greatness of their misdeeds, but because of their blatant acts of exploitation, greed and self-interest in a time of prosperity and scientific enlightenment brought on by the selfless acts of productive, peaceful and noble human beings.  MC

Who makes too much?  Mike Coffman asks for a 10% congressional wage cut.  I say 72%.

Hourly pay for a PFC in Vietnam?   .51 cents

Federal Minimum Wage in 1970? $1.25

Federal Minimum Wage per hour 2011?  $7.25

Hourly pay for a E-3 Army PFC 2011?   $9.75

Average US teacher wage?  $20.19

Median union wage per hour?  $22.92

Wage per hour for US Congressperson, assuming 2080 hours per year?  $83.65

Wage for the average small business CEO/Partner/Owner?  $124.23

Wage per hour for the top 500 CEOs average of $12.8 million?  $6,153.84

Solution?  Reduce Congressional pay to $22.92 an hour, a 72% pay cut.  Freeing up $54,496,800 and use that money to employ 3,613 minimum wage workers.  Congress would still be making middle class wages, although if we really wanted to be mean about it, we could pay them what we pay teachers.  I am sure that it may have the stimulating effect of attracting a nobler congressperson.