This guy says hooray for our do-nothing Congress...

English: Newt Gingrich at a political conference in Orlando, Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://personalliberty.com/2014/01/10/hooray-for-our-do-nothing-congress/

But I'll bet he's not living on $8.50 per hour.

In real dollars, the minimum wage was at its peak --- $10+ in today's bucks --- in 1968 under LBJ and his War on Poverty.  It began to lose ground during the Reagan years… no surprise there.  Interesting, it has usually been a by-partisan issue with Nixon signing a new minimum wage into law and even Newt Gingrich pushing an increase through Congress in his day.  So the so-called do-nothing Congress --- by which he must really mean the tealiban minority that blocks everything in the House --- is a new low in American politics… a low that reflects the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots in 21st century America.

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